Nadia Fares

Nadia Fares is an Egyptian-Swiss film director and screenwriter.

Biography Fares was born in Bern, Switzerland, the daughter of an Egyptian father and Swiss mother. The same year, Fares directed her first short film, Magic Binoculars, the first of several produced for Swiss television. Fares began attending New York University in 1987 to study film. In 1991, she won a prize from the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation for her short film Sugarblues. While at New York University, Fares was mentored by Krzysztof Kieślowski and served as the assistant director for several of his works. She took her master's degree in film studies in 1995. Fares directed several brief documentary films on the topic of social-political issues for RTS/TV5 Monde.

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