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Narjiss Nejjar (born 1971) is a Moroccan filmmaker and screenwriter. Her film Les Yeux Secs (Cry No More)[lower-alpha 1] was screened at Cannes in 2003.[1]
Nejjar was a student at ESRA in Paris, where she studied filmmaking.[2]
In 1994, she directed her first documentary L’exigence de la Dignite.[3] She has worked on documentaries as well as fiction films; her best known feature film, Les Yeux Secs initially started as a documentary about the women of Tizi but the women declined to be filmed.[4] The film was screened at the 2003 Cannes film festival and the 4th International Festival of Rabat Film where she received the grand prize.[3]
She is also the author of the novel Cahier d'empreintes; released in 1999.[2]
Nejjar is the daughter to the novelist Noufissa Sbai; Sbai was the producer on Les Yeux Secs.
- L’exigence de la Dignite (1994)
- Khaddouj, Memoire de Targha (1996)
- Les Salines (1998)
- Le septième ciel (2001)
- Le miroir du fou (2002)
- Les yeux secs (Cry No More, 2003)
- Wake Up Morocco (2006)
- Terminus des anges (2010)
- L'amante du rif (2011)
- Cinema of Morocco
- Doha Moustaquim
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