when the night comes
2016 • short film
_films
Hajar, a young woman, has come to France for a few days with her businessman husband. Feeling uneasy in her marriage, she leaves a dinner and wanders through the streets of Paris.
selections
- 32nd Namur International Film Festival (Belgium)
- Marghreb des films (France)
- 2nd Copper Coast Film Festival (Ireland)
Best film in a foreign language award
Best actress award
- Bethlehem International Film Festival (Palestine)
- 15th Lago Film Festival (Italy)
production
La Fémis
with
Nadia Kounda
Driss Ramdi
omar's apartment
2017 • short film
Omar’s Apartment follows a young boy spending summer vacation with his mother at his relatives’ home, in Meknes, Morocco. Struggling with bedwetting problem, he must avoid any accident in a place that is not his own. The pressure intensifies as he feels a deep fascination for his uncle, making the fear of shame and exposure even stronger.
selections
- 24th LGBTQ Chéries Chéris International Film Festival (France)
- Bethlehem International Film Festival (Palestine)
- 40th Durban International Film Festival (South Africa)
- 17th Tangier Mediterranean Short Film Festival (Morocco)
production
La Fémis
with
Zoubier Aboulfadl
Younes Bouab
Younes Bouab
mauvais soleil
2026 • short film
A filmmaker asks a sorcerer—an artificial intelligence—to give him the face he dreamed of as a teenager. Instead, it gives him another: inhuman. Intrigued by this synthetic figure that has taken his place in an old family photograph, he sets out through the streets of Casablanca to understand what it embodies.
production
- Quiet Please Films Productions
- Tribeca Studios
- Tribeca Studios
selections
- Tribeca Film Festival 2026 (USA)
finding oppo
tbd • short film
Mamun is different from the other teens in his neighborhood. One night, his father, Mourad, forces him to go after the phone that was stolen from him few hours earlier. To prove he’s like everyone else, especially to his father, Mamun is forced to hide what really happened.
production
Tessalit Productions
Supported by
- Doha Film Institute
- CCM (Centre Cinématographique Marocain)
- AFAC (Arab Fund for Culture and Art)
a very important person
tbd • feature narrative
Ali and his friends are suspended from highschool until they show up with their fathers. Deeply ashamed of his own, he wanders through the streets of Casablanca searching for a well-off-looking man who would pretend to be his father and go with him to school.
production
Kazak Productions
screenwriting labs and residencies
- Pop Up Film Residency
- Atlas Ateliers, Marrakech International Film Festival : ArteKino International Award
- Torino Film Lab
- Realness Film Institute, African Screenwriters Residency
_about
Born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco.
Graduated from the Directing department of La Fémis in Paris.
Based in Los Angeles.
_contact
youssef@nun-films.com