BIOGRAPHY

Nour Gharbi graduated in Cinema at the Sorbonne and graduated in Directing at the CEFPF: Center Européen de Formation à la Production de Film.

 

In 2010 he moved to Rome from Paris and in 2012 he created Gritty Pictures, a cultural association with which he made his first works.

 

In 2014, Ricochet, his first short film, won the Special Critics' Prize at the Maazzeni Film Festival. Between 2015 and 2016 he completed two other shorts: Mokusatsu which won 25 awards and was selected in over 70 festivals including Ischia Film Festival and Foggia Film Festival, and Il Sapore del Sale which won the Technical and Film Quality Award at the Roma FilmCorto and the Best Short Film Award at the Spiraglio Film Festival of Mental Health.

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In 2018 Nour creates Raganella Production, a film production house with which he produces and realizes various works, including Reaching Terminus, a documentary on health care intended for refugees victims of torture, rape or other serious forms of violence, and Recess, short film on youth discomfort winner of the call for Social Film Fund con il Sud, an initiative promoted by Apulia Film Commission and Fondazione con il Sud to tell the South through the social phenomena that characterize it.

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In 2021 Nour won the Immaginari Award of Global Migration, promoted by the Philosophy, Communication and Entertainment Department of the Roma Tre University, whose goal of giving a voice to people with a migratory background has allowed the creation of his short film La pecora, a work that wants to denounce the do-it-yourself ritual slaughter and their impact on the psyche of younger children.

 

Nour is currently developing new projects including his feature film debut.