Director - Actress
Fatym Layachi has many strings
to her bow: she is an actress, commentator and director. She has the sense of self-deprecation and can
observe, with malice relevance and tenderness, the Moroccan society to which
she belongs. "I am
French by reasoning, and Moroccan by intuition," says Fatym Layachi who
adds: "I do not believe in talent, I believe in the singularity and work
that lead to creation”. For the last four years, she has been interested in the
Mediterranean, "the cradle of many civilizations, today the great cemetery
of our humanity with the tragedy of refugees and migrants". Three shows were born from this fascination: “Kan
Ya Makan”, meeting of the lute and flamenco guitar, “Majalis”, celebration of
Judaeo-Arab sacred songs and “Amakyn”, mixture of singing and circus around the
exile of three women. Music is
at the heart of her creation. It is in 2012 that she made her first staging, that of the “I say no”
theater play, a tribute to refusal. Being a lone child, Fatym Layachi grew up in Casablanca and studied in Paris. But it is at the age of seventeen that she
discovered the world of movies when director Hakim Noury proposed to her a
role in a love story. Other films followed that performance, with different
directors. Later, the
“TelQuel” weekly proposed to her to keep a “wacky and girly" chronicle. “Le Monde Afrique” also granted her a space in
its online edition: "I am totally free to write whatever I want”, says Fatym
Layachi who was marked by the year 2015, when France fell into horror:"
The attacks of November 13 symbolize for me the end of a world. Today, the question is what kind of society is
it. Life and
love must take over again”, she said with great emotion.