Nadia Fares

Screenwriter, Director, Producer

Nadia Fares is an Egyptian Swiss director, writer and producer. She has graduated from New York University, TISCH School of the Arts where she has received her Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television. Her first feature film “Honey and Ashes” received multiple international awards and critical acclaim for its groundbreaking depiction of contemporary Arabic women. Variety called it “edgy and intelligent”. Her newest feature script “Diplomatic Corps” was accepted into the New York Writers Lab backed by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. She works and lives in Los Angeles, Cairo and Geneva. BIG LITTLE WOMEN is her first feature documentary.

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2022
Big Little Women by Nadia Fares
2011
Expectations by Nadia Fares
2003
Anomalies Passagères by Nadia Fares
2000
Histoires de fête by Jean-François Amiguet, Francis Reusser, Pascal Magnin, Nadia Fares, Raymond Vouillamoz
1999
Mixed Up by Nadia Fares
1999
Les saveurs du printemps by Nadia Fares
1999
ID Swiss by Fulvio Bernasconi, Christian Davi, Nadia Fares, Wageh George, Kamal Musale, Thomas Thümena, Stina Werenfels
1996
Miel et Cendres by Nadia Fares

Screenwriter

2024
Diplomatic Corps
2022
Big Little Women by Nadia Fares
2011
Expectations by Nadia Fares
2011
Messies, ein schönes Chaos by Ulrich Grossenbacher
2005
Die weisse Massai by Hermine Huntgeburth
2005
Katzenball by Veronika Minder
1999
ID Swiss by Fulvio Bernasconi, Christian Davi, Nadia Fares, Wageh George, Kamal Musale, Thomas Thümena, Stina Werenfels
1996
Miel et Cendres by Nadia Fares

Producer

2015
Born In Battle by Yangzom Brauen
2011
Mirage.net by Mansour Al Dhaheri
2011
Expectations by Nadia Fares
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