# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/farida-benlyazid
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:24.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/farida-benlyazid"
name: "Farida Benlyazid"
slug: "farida-benlyazid"
description: "Farida Benlyazid is a Moroccan scriptwriter, producer, production manager, novelist, and director. She began working in the field of cinema and cinematic production in the seventies. According to Sandra Gayle Carter, author of What Moroccan Cinema? : A Historical and Critical Study, Benlyazid continues to be one of the few Moroccan women in the field. From the start of her career up until 2003, she was the one of the few female filmmaker in Morocco. Benlyazid's films, novel adaptations, documentaries and scripts have garnered much international recognition. She has become known for representing the struggles and obstacles faced by Moroccan women and incorporating her own personal experiences into her scripts and films."
tagline: "Moroccan film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zg1fxx78GwTtKeSKLF2hTG2l9aR.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.139921333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0069937/"
    handle:    "nm0069937"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.farida-benlyazid.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "فريدة بليزيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "فريدة بليزيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "فريده بليزيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farida_Benlyazid"
    title: "Farida Benlyazid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farida_Benlyazid"
    title: "Farida Benlyazid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farida_Benlyazid"
    title: "Farida Benlyazid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farida_Benlyazid"
    title: "Farida Benlyazid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%DB%81_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%AF"
    title: "فریدہ بن الیزید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12230698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1311054"
    title: "Farida Benlyazid"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump