Awards
– Aspen shortfest (USA) >> Special Mention
– Cairo International Animation Forum (Egypt) >> Best Creative Experimental Film & Certificate of Merit for the Best Animation
– Rabat International Author’s Film Festival (Morocco) >> Best animated short film
– Feminist Border Arts Film Festival (New Mexico – USA) >> Advisory Board Award for Excellence in Experimental Animation
– Porto Femme – International film festival (Portugal) 2023 >> Special Mention
– Monstra Film Festival (Portugal) 2023 >> Special Mention
– Vilnius Film Festival Kino Pavasaris (Lithuania) 2023 >> Special Mention
– Meknes International Animation Film Festival – FICAM (Morocco) 2023 >> Special Mention
– Alexandria Short Film Festival (Egypt) 2023 >> Special Mention
– Tangier International Film Festival (Morocco), 2022 >> Special mention
– Gatze Film festival (Spain), 2020 >> Best Short Film for Youth
– ANNY (New York, USA) 2019>> Award «Best of Fest»
– Athens Animfest (Greece) 2019>> 2nd prize experimental competition
– Animaevka (Belarus) 2019 >> Best animation for adults
– FICP (Patagonia) 2019 >> Best animation
– Arte Non Stop Festival (Argentina) 2019 >> Special mention
– Roschd Internation film festival (Iran) 2019 >> Finalist
– FICAM Meknès (Morocco) 2018>> Audience award
– Paris International Animation Festival (France) 2018>> Audience award
– Ajayu Animation Film Festival (Peru) 2018>> Special mention mixed-media film
– World of Women Film Fair Middle East 2018>> Semi-finalist
– Feminist Film Series: Animation Shorts 2018>> Semi-finalist
Exhibitions & Retrospectives
– Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 2024 : « Aux sources de l’imaginaire de Sofia El Khyari » (Solo show + retrospective)
– Icosa gallery, Austin, 2023 : « Dream States » (Group show)
– Institut français de Meknes & Fondation Aicha, Meknes, 2023 : « Voyage en rêverie » (Solo show)
– L’Openbach & Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 2022 : « L’Ombre des Papillons » (Solo Show + retrospective)
Grants & Residencies
– Atlas Workshops pitch (Marrakesh, 2023)
– Residency la Jachère (Roubaix, 2023)
– Residency of la maison des auteurs (Angoulême, 2021/2022)
– Residency development FabLab (Meknés, 2021)
– Openbach Artist Residency (Paris, 2021)
– AFAC Arab Funding Art & Culture Production grant (Lebanon, 2020)
– Doha Film Institute Production grant (Qatar, 2020)
– Région Nouvelle Aquitaine Cinema Production grant (France, 2020)
– Mawred Culture Resource Exceptional Grant (Lebanon, 2020)
– Residency at la Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montréal, 2019)
– AFAC Arab Funding Art & Culture Development grant (Lebanon, 2019)
Festivals
2024
– Beirut International Women Film Festival (Lebanon)
– Festival vues d’Afrique (Canada)
2023
– PIAFF – Animation Film Festival of Paris (France)
– Animation First – FIAF New York (USA)
– Clermont Ferrand Short Film Market Pick (France)
– Anima Animation Film Festival (Belgium)
– Animac (Spain)
– Fespaco (Burkina Faso)
– Beirut animation nights (Lebanon)
– Tricky Women Animation Film Festival (Austria)
– Brussels International Women’s Film Festival « Elles Tournent » (Belgium)
– Rennes French Animation Film Festival (France)
– Alfilm – Arab Film Festival Berlin (Germany)
– Gabes Cinema (Tunisia)
– Festival 2ANNAS – Riga International Short Film Festival (Latvia)
– Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong)
– Filmfest Dresden (Germany)
– Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France)
– Animatricks Animation Festival – Helsinki (Finland)
– Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) (Australia)
– Palm Springs International ShortFest (USA)
– Bucharest Short Film Festival (BSFF) (Romania)
– Mecal Pro – Festival Int. de Cortometrajes de Barcelona (Spain)
– Arab Film Festival – San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
– Festival de Curtmetratges de Manlleu (Spain)
– Anibar International Animation Festival (Kosovo)
– Imaginaria Film Festival (Italy)
– Insomnia International Animation Film Festival (Russia)
– Turku Animated Film Festival (Finland)
– Lille International Short Film Festival (France)
– Ottawa international Animation festival (Canada)
– Weird Market (Spain)
– Animario (Spain)
– International Festival of « Cinema and Common Memory” (Morocco)
– Animatex (Egypt)
– Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Hungary)
– Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Germany)
– Chaniartoon (Greece)
– BRNO16 (Czech Republic)
– Arab Film Festival of Fameck (France)
– Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF) (USA)
– Calgary Arab Film Nights (Canada)
– Tangier National Film Festival (Maroc)
– Lobo Fest (Brazil)
– Bit Bang (Argentina)
– A Tribute to a Vision / First Crossings (Italy)
– Africa’s Lights (France)
– Manchester Animation Festival (UK)
– Carrefour de l’animation (France)
2022
– International Film Festival of Locarno (Switzerland)
– Toronto International Film Festival (Canada)
– Animist Tallin (Estonia)
– Festival du Film Francophone d’Angoulême (France)
– BIAF – Bucheon International Animation Festival (South Korea)
– Animasyros – International Animation Festival & Forum (Greece)
– Zagreb Film Festival (Croatia)
– Zinebi – Documentary and Short Film Festival of Bilbao (Spain)
– Balkanima Festival (Serbia)
– Cinanima (Portugal)
– Caminhos Film Festival (Portugal)
– 3in1 Film Fest (Portugal)
– Imagine Science Film Festival – New York (USA)
– Arab Film Festival (USA)
– Passaggi d’Autore: intrecci mediterranei, Sardigna (Italy)
– International Festival of Animated Films TOFUZI (Georgia)
– South Western International Film Festival (Canada)
– Animateka (Slovenia)
– CutOut Fest, International Animation Film Festival (Mexico)
– Animakom Fest (Spain)
– Vues d’Afrique (Canada)
– International Children Care Film Festival (France)
2021
– Annecy Animation Festival – Focus Africa (France)
– Comicon (New York & London)
– Beirut Animated (Lebanon)
– Festival Cinémas d’Afrique (France)
– Refugee Week Film (UK)
– Animasyros – Mediterranean Retrospective (Greece)
2020
– Festival Femmes Afrique (Senegal)
– Cinéma Numérique Ambulant (Burkina Faso)
– International Children’s Film Society (Bangladesh)
– Festival Internacional de Santo Domingo Mujeres en Corto – Femujer (Dominican Republic)
– Afrika Film Festival – Leuven (Belgium)
– Cachinus de Cine International Youth Film Festival (Spain)
– Davis Feminist Film Festival (USA)
– La Truca (Colombia)
– Mi Primer Festival (Peru)
– Animafest Gandsk (Poland)
– Flipbook Film Festival (Macedonia)
– Zurich Arab Film Festival (Switzerland)
– Festival Cinéma et Cultures d’Afrique – La Roche-sur-Yon (France)
2019
– Cinanima (Portugal)
– FICAM Meknès (Morocco)
– Zlin Film Festival (Czek Republic)
– BoVi Film Festival, Boise, Idaho (USA)
– Imaginaria Film Festival, Conversano (Italy)
– London Experimental film festival (UK & Brazil)
– Medusa Underground Film Festival, Las Vegas (USA)
– Paris International Animation Festival (France)
– Les Femmes Underground Film Festival, Los Angeles (USA)
– Arab Film and Media Institute, San Francisco (USA)
– Animated Beirut (Lebanon)
– Montgomery International Film Festival (USA)
– Mumia (Brazil)
– Festival du film court en Armagnac (France)
– Regards de femmes (Tunisia)
– Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Germany)
– Festival Gorée Cinéma (Senegal)
– Festival du film franco-arabe de Noisy-le-sec (France)
– OAFF (online – worldwide)
– Fupitoons (South Africa)
– Animacité (France)
– Festival du film franco-arabe (France)
– Karama Film Festival (Jordan)
– NIAF (USA)
2018
– Institut du monde arabe, festival des cinémas arabes (Paris, France)
– Animateka, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
– Animasivo (Mexico)
– Athens Animfest (Greece)
– China International Independent Forum (China)
– Africa in Motion (UK)
– Cardiff Animation Festival (UK)
– Short short story Film Festival (USA)
– FAFF (UK)
– Beirut International Family Film Festival (Lebanon)
– Tetouan Student Film Festival (Morocco)
– OAFF (online – worldwide)
2017
– Bogoshorts (Colombia)
– Palm Springs Animation Film Festival (USA)
– Chitrakatha Animation Festival (India)
– Ajayu Animation Film Festival (Peru)
– Animae Caribe (Trinidad & Caribe)
Jury in festivals
– Beirut Animated Nights (Lebanon, 2024)
– FICAM Meknès (Morocco, 2024)
– International festival of students film, Casablanca (Morocco, 2023)
– FIFE Evreux (France, 2023)
– Animatex (Egypt, 2023)
– PIAFF Paris (France, 2022)
– Animasyros (Greece, 2021)
Masterclass/Teaching
– Masterclass « Tackling the personal » (Animatex festival, Egypt)
– Workshop « Animation from poetry » (EESI Angoulême, France)
– Mentoring students (EMCA Angoulême, France)
– Masterclass « The animation industry in Morocco » (Kedge Business School Paris, France)
– Masterclass « Innovation in the animation industry » (Kedge Business School Paris, France)