Nadia Labidi

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Nadia Labidi (born Nadia Cherabi on 18 July 1954 in Aïn Madhi, Algeria) is an Algerian film producer, director, and politician. She studied sociology at the University of Algiers and earned a Ph.D. in Cinematography from the Sorbonne in 1987. From 1978 to 1994 she was director of production at the Algerian Centre for Art and the Film Industry (CAAIC) and later taught at the University of Algiers III. In 1991 she worked as an assistant director at ANAF.

In 1994 she founded Procom International, a production company that started with documentaries and later expanded to feature films, co-producing with ENTV and with support from the Ministry of Culture. Her first documentary, Fatima Amaria (1993), follows a young woman in a southern Algerian religious community. Her first directed feature was The Other Side of the Mirror (L'envers du miroir, 2007). She also produced Women Alive (Vivantes!, 2006) and Wounded Palms (Les palmiers blesses, 2010).

Labidi served as Algeria’s Minister of Culture from May 5, 2014 to May 2015. Her work is described as French-based and French-funded.