Halima Elkhatabi graduated from Institut National de l’Image et du Son of Montréal (INIS) where she received the Excellence Scholarchip, and started her career as a director and a writer for documentaries. She then scripted short fictions including, La barricade (2009), which won Best Short Film at the International Fantasia Film Festival 2011, the Cinema Pioneers Scholarship from Ciné-Québec and the Best Short Fiction film at the Festival international de cinéma jeunesse de Rimouski. In 2011, she was finalist of SODEC's Cours écrire ton court contest for her script, La roue. Nina (2015) is her first short film of fiction as a director.
Filmography
Nina (2015 / 15 min)
À St-Henri le 26 août (2011 / 80 min)
La tête contre le mur (2010 / 52 min)
Demain peut-être (2009 / 6 min)
