Simone Bitton

Simone Bitton (; born January 3, 1955) is a French-Moroccan documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize (for Mur).

Personal life Bitton was born the daughter of a Jewish jeweller in Rabat, Morocco. In 1966 she immigrated to Israel with her family and served in the IDF during the Yom Kippur War. She describes herself as a Mizrahi Jew. After settling in France, where she now mainly lives she graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1981.

In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Bitton signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.

Filmography 1981: Solange Giraud, née Tache 1990: Great Voices of Arab Song 1992: Palestine: Story of a Land 1996: Umm Kulthum 1997: Palestine/israel, histoire d’une terre 1998: Ben Barka, l'équation marocaine 1998: Mahmoud Darwich 1999: Pigu'a / The Bombing 2000: L'Attentat 2001: Citizen Bishara 2004: Wall (Mur) 2009: Rachel