Leila Kilani

Leila Kilani was born in 1970 in Casablanca. She studied economics in Paris, obtaining a Master’s Degree in Mediterranean history and civilization. After writing a thesis at ‘L´Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Social Sciences’ she started working as a freelance journalist in 1997. Two years later she turned to documentary cinema and created Nos Lieux Interdits (Our Forbidden Places). The documentary tells a story about the secrets of people who were treated unjustly and have been kept silenced for a long time, sometimes to death. (Taken from Nisimazine)