Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home. In Paris, Elias faces unstable work and financial hardship as an undocumented immigrant. But he also finds friendship with Souleymane, who helps revive his love for cooking, thus expressing in colors, fragrances, and spicy flavors his passion for life.
Tazzeka
Tazzeka
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Jean-Philippe Gaud
- Cinematography: Rémi Mazet
- Editing: Jean-Philippe Gaud
- Sound: Bruno Ehlinger
- Actors: Madi Belem, Ouidad Elma, Olivier Sitruk, Abbes Zahmani, Adama Diop
- Production: Takka Films
- Co-production: AWMAN Productions
- Co-producers: Jean-Philippe Gaud, Axelle Hutchings
- Art Direction: Elodie Martin
- Production Country: France, Morocco
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 95΄
- Contact: Wide Management, festivals@widemanagement.com
Jean-Philippe Gaud
Jean-Philippe Gaud graduated in Εditing from La Fémis, France’s national film school in Paris. Upon graduation, he directed his first short films and worked as an editor with various directors, in fiction as well as in documentary. A lifelong opera lover, he also directed Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and then Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Alongside Nader Takmil Homayoun, he co-wrote, edited, and produced Tehroun (2009) with their production company Alias Films. Tehroun received the Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week prize and the Angiers Film Festival’s Grand Prize. In 2015, he founded his own production company, Takka Films, to direct Tazzeka, his first feature film.
Filmography
1998 Mabrouk Moussa! (short)
2001 Deux fraises Tagada! | Two Fraise Tagadas! (short)
2002 Une journée sur la terre | A Day on Earth (short)
2004 Au quotidien, portrait d’une école maternelle | Day-to-day, Portrait of a Day Care (short)
2018 Tazzeka
2001 Deux fraises Tagada! | Two Fraise Tagadas! (short)
2002 Une journée sur la terre | A Day on Earth (short)
2004 Au quotidien, portrait d’une école maternelle | Day-to-day, Portrait of a Day Care (short)
2018 Tazzeka