Shaden Safieddine Tazi

Shaden Safieddine Tazi is a writer and film director from Morocco and Lebanon. She studied Film and Media Studies at Columbia University and later worked there as a teaching assistant.

In 2023, she directed her debut short film, Everything Will Disappear, shot in Morocco. The film follows a young woman whose grandfather no longer remembers her due to Alzheimer’s and has been screened at the El Gouna Film Festival, the Tangier Film Festival, and the Menart Fair in Paris.

Now based in Paris, Shaden is preparing to shoot her second short, I Tasted Paradise, in January 2025, while developing her first feature — an adaptation of La Poule et Son Cumin by Moroccan author Zineb Mekouar. Her work explores human vulnerability, non-verbal communication, and the passage of time through non-linear storytelling.