Tazzeka

Tazzeka

59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

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.

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