Born in Casablanca to a family from Tangier, filmmaker Leila Kilani studied history and economics in Paris before embarking on a career in film. A graduate of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHSS), she discovered her cinematic calling through the need to question her society, beyond the foreign-grafted media discourse.
He was born in Algeria to a Kabyle family of renown Caids. He later became a teacher under French protectorate, and the most Moroccan of all Algerian artists.