Simone Bitton


Simone Bitton is a French-Morrocan documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize.

Personal life

Bitton was born the daughter of a Jewish jeweller in Morocco. She describes herself as a Mizrahi Jew. After settling in France, where she now mainly lives she graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1981.

Filmography