Sofian El Fani

Sofian El Fani

Birth : 1974-01-28, Tunisia

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Sofian El Fani

Movies

Yellow Bus
Director of Photography
In Wendy Bednarz’s feature debut, an Indian woman living in the Arabian Gulf embarks on a search for truth and accountability after her daughter is left to die on a school bus in the sweltering desert heat.
Perfect Strangers
Director of Photography
Do we truly know one another? Every one of us has three lives: a public, a private and secret one. What we once stored in our memories is now being stored in our phones - what happens when these are made public?
It Must Be Heaven
Director of Photography
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
In Safe Hands
Director of Photography
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
Agnelli
Director of Photography
Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Director of Photography
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Five Nights in Maine
Director of Photography
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
Un Conte Contemporain
Director of Photography
Dawn is breaking, a man is reading a letter, a fishing boat comes in from the open sea. A woman searches for a face in a crowded street. A woman gathers clothes, a girl looks for a response. An empty chair. The soft murmur of the waves.
Timbuktu
Director of Photography
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief occupation of Timbuktu by militant Islamic rebels.
Challat of Tunis
Director of Photography
Mockumentary about the search for the "Challat,” an infamous slasher of women's behinds.
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Director of Photography
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Black Venus
Director of Photography
The true story of Saartjes Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
A Season Betwen Heaven and Hell
Director of Photography
The sole pleasure of Ala, a literature professor and poetry lover, is to share drunkenness with poets. «The Epistle of Mercy», a work about Heaven and Hell, written nearly a thousand years ago, is the subject of the day. In his inebriation, the waitress and bar owner become characters from this work.
The Secret of the Grain
Camera Operator
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
Filth
Director of Photography
Mounir is a reserved and idle night watchman. On a very lonely night, he finds a strange manner of entering the life of Latifa, his pretty neighbour with whom he is secretly in love. The unusual means will turn him into the secret witness of Latifa's agitated life and will lead him to dangerous extremes of passion.