naoile ji

Naoile was born in a village in the Vosges mountains to Moroccan parents who immigrated in the 1970s. She is the only daughter in a family of seven siblings. From an early age, she learned about filming, sound and interviewing for local TV and radio, while cultivating her passion for writing in all its forms. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history, she turned to humanitarian work and social entrepreneurship with a master’s degree in NGO management, which led her to work in the field for more than ten years and travel to Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Colombia, Japan, Algeria, Senegal and other countries. In 2012, she made her first two documentaries before leaving her position as Director of Development at Impact France in 2018 to devote herself entirely to film. She has made three self-produced short films, including Quand reviendra le loriot (awarded at Paris Court Devant) and Ma mère c’est Peter Pan, selected for Claude Lelouch’s Ateliers du Cinéma residency. Versatile on film sets — directing, editing, lighting, stage management, production — she has accumulated five years of practical experience. In 2023, her collection INTÉRIEUR.NUIT attracted the attention of several publishers, but she decided to continue writing. Her latest short film, Trek Salama, was broadcast on France 2 in June 2025. She is currently working on two new short films, DELOREAN and J’AI MÊMEPAS PLEURÉ, while co-writing her first feature film, QUE DIEU ME PARDONNE (a thriller), and the international historical series HEALERS/GUÉRIR, with two co-writers (one Belgian and one English).