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Nassim Abassi is a Moroccan filmmaker. He attended film school at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design (SIAD) in Farnham, UK. He has produced and directed several short films both in the UK and in Morocco which were well received in the British and foreign film festival circuit.
In 2001, he was a member of a jury which included Samira Makhmalbaf and several other award-winning international filmmakers at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in Qatar. In 2002, he started a PHD research project at the University of London. His research focused on the specificity of an Arab cinema in the context of Arab aesthetics.