Nadia Ben Rachid

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Nadia Ben Rachid is a Franco-Tunisian film editor with more than thirty years of experience. For about twenty years she worked closely with filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako. She won the Best Editing award at the 2015 César Awards for Sissako's 2014 film Timbuktu. Ben Rachid began editing on 35mm film and celluloid. Her editing credits include Timbuktu, Waiting for Happiness, Bamako Life On Earth, and Tug of War. She has edited many documentaries, including all of Anne Aghion's films such as the 2005 Emmy-winning In Rwanda we say... The family that does not speak dies, and the 2009 Cannes Official Selection doc My Neighbor My Killer, Tarr Béla, I Used to Be a Filmmaker, and Michka Saäl's Les prisonniers de Beckett. In 2015 she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ben Rachid describes editing as shaping a director's idea into a harmonious, fluid concept. The New Statesman has called her editing nimble.