Nadia Kounda, Best Actress at the Brussels Film Festival

Moroccan actress Nadia Kounda has won the Best Actress award at the Brussels International Film Festival (FIFB) for her role in “Les Fourmis” by director Yassine Fennane. Produced in 2025, “Les Fourmis” was one of five feature films in international competition, selected from 250 works viewed by the festival committee.

This moving film, which immerses the viewer in the heart of Tangier, offers a nuanced and deeply human perspective on the often invisible journeys of migrants. It is the Moroccan film that has been selected most often at international festivals in 2025.

Already screened in Durban, Paris, and Brussels, “Les Fourmis” will soon continue its tour in London, New York, Nairobi, and Kinshasa.

With a running time of 90 minutes, this feature film is part of the new North African film movement that explores the dynamics of intra-African immigration. Through three intertwined destinies, it sheds light on the complex realities of migration, ambition, and redemption on the African continent.

It follows three intersecting stories: Félicité, a Cameroonian migrant determined to give her deceased friend a dignified burial; Hamid, a father torn between duty and ambition; and Kenza, a young bourgeois woman seeking personal freedom.

The paths of these three people cross in a powerful social narrative about poverty, migration, dreams, and disillusionment.

Born in 1989 in Casablanca, Kounda began her acting career around 2008 in Morocco and gained recognition for her leading role in “L'Amante du Rif” (2011). She later moved to Montreal, Canada, where she studied film production and developed her international film career.

Among her notable works is “Volubilis” (2017), for which she received the Best Actress award at the El Gouna Film Festival.