Fyzal Boulifa

Born in Leicester to Moroccan parents, Fyzal Boulifa is a self-taught writer-director living and working between London and Morocco. His films incorporate non-professional actors to explore the mutability of identity in a working-class context. He has made two feature films, Lynn + Lucy (2020), BIFA-nominated, and The Damned Don’t Cry (2023), recipient of the New Voices, New Visions Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. His short films include Rate Me (2015) and BAFTA-nominated The Curse (2012), both awarded the Illy Prize for Best Short Film at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes. He also works as a screenwriter, recently co-writing Mahdi Fleifel's To A Land Unknown (2024).

During the Fellowship, Boulifa will be working on Eternal Peace, an era-spanning melodrama set between Morocco and England, recounting the dissolution of a family and a marriage in reverse chronology in order to interrogate the immigrant's relationship to time, sacrifice and capitalism.