Mohamed Nabil

Mohamed Nabil grew up in Morocco, where he studied philosophy and pedagogy. For four years he taught philosophy and social sciences at the high school in Morocco before immigrating to Canada in 2001. There he studied journalism and political science in Quebec and Film Studies in Montreal. In 2005 he shot his first university short film in Canada: “Philosopher”. Since 2006, Mohamed Nabil lives in Berlin and works as a freelance journalist, artist and filmmaker. In 2009, he founded the production company Mia Paradies Productions, together with Eva Leonardi. “Women’s Dreams”, a film about German women converted to Islam, was his first documentary in 2010 and had a lot of success. The documentary “Jewels of grief” about single mothers in Morocco made in 2013 is the first part of a film trilogy about women in Morocco. It was shown on several international film festivals around the world as well as on BBC World Arabic television.