SHADEN SAFIEDDINE TAZI

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Shaden Safieddine Tazi is a screenwriter and filmmaker based in Paris. 

She is developing her debut feature, Today (I Am 25 Years Old), a 1978-set drama following a Lebanese couple driving from Abidjanoverland toward a Lebanon at war. Produced by Nadia Turincev and 1991 Productions, the film was selected for the Atlas Close-Ups of the Marrakech International Film Festival's Atlas Workshops in 2025, under the patronage of Cristian Mungiu, and supported by the Less Is More (LIM) program.

Her short films include Everything Will Disappear (2023), awarded Best Narrative Short at the Arab Media Film Institute and Best Cinematography at the Tangier Film Festival, and selected at festivals worldwide.  Her latest short, A Few Moments of Happiness (2026), is a personal documentary on witnessing the war in Lebanon from Paris. It premiered at the Jeu de Paume in conversation with Yto Barrada and screened at the ICA London in conversation with Ghassan Salhab.

She has also worked as a story and editing consultant on Earth to Michael (dir. Nico López-Alegría and ZZ), which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2025.

Alongside her filmmaking, Safieddine Tazi writes and programs for the Cinémathèque de Tanger.

She is an honors graduate in film and media studies from Columbia University, where she was a teaching assistant to professors Breixo Viejo (Unseen Masterworks of World Cinema) and Annette Insdorf (Cinema History, 1960 to 1990). Safieddine Tazi was born in Casablanca in 1999 and is Spanish, Moroccan and Lebanese.