Anne Zohra Berrached

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Portrait of Anne Zohra Berrached

Anne Zohra Berrached (born 31 July 1982 in Erfurt) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Life and career[]

The daughter of an Algerian father, Anne Zohra Berrached was born and raised in the GDR. Following specialized secondary school in art, she earned a university degree in social pedagogy. Anne Zohra Berrached worked for two years in London as a drama teacher before spending one year abroad in Kameron and Spain.^[1]

In the year of 2009, Anne Zohra Berrached directed her debut short movie Der Pausenclown (The Class Clown) about a Lebanese neighbour and comedian who lived in Berlin-Neukölln. Later the movie was broadcast on the German television network WDR. In the same year, after an unsuccessful attempt to get in to , Anne Zohra Berrached started her education at one of the most famous film universities of Germany, Filmacademy Baden-Wurttemberg in Ludwigsburg.

Her first feature-length film (Two Mothers) is about an homosexual couple who audition men to collect their sperm for having a child. With Two Mothers, Anne Zohra Berrached received the main award of the section Perspective German Cinema at the .

In February 2016 Anne Zohra Berrached presented her second film, 24 Wochen (24 Weeks), at competition of the . The movie is about a pregnant comedian woman (Julia Jentsch) and her husband (Bjarne Mädel) decideding on a legal abortion for their unborn child diagnosed with down syndrome. This was the first breach of the topic of legal late term abortion in cinema and was considered taboo for over 90% of women in Germany facing a similar situation.

24 Weeks was her final degree project before she graduated from film school. As being the only German film in competition, 24 Weeks received the award of Guild German Filmartist (Gilde Deutscher Filmkunsttheater) for best picture. 24 Weeks was also honoured with the Silver Lola of Best German Film 2017 at the German Film Awards.

Filmography[]

• 2011: E. + U. (Shortfilm) – Director
• 2012: Saint&Whore (Documentary) – Director, Screenplay
• 2012: Hunde wie wir (medium length movie) – Director
• 2013: Die rechte Hand (medium length movie) – Director
• 2013: – Director, Screenplay
• 2016: 24 Weeks – Director, Screenplay
• 2017: Millennials – Actress

References[]

External links[]

• Anne Zohra Berrached at filmportal.de
• Profil at abovetheline.de
• Anne Zohra Berrached at Internet Movie Database (English)