Hafsa Zinaï Koudil (born 1951) is an Algerian novelist, journalist and film director living in France.
[1][2] Hafsa Zinaï Koudil was born on 13 September 1951 in Aïn Beïda in the East of Algeria.
[2] Le démon au féminin treated the true story of Latifa, a confident professional Algerian who refused to wear a headscarf.
At the request of her husband, Latifa was violently exorcised by Islamic fundamentalists in 1991: her torture lasted for six hours, leaving her with injuries which confined her to a wheelchair.
While shooting the film between September 1992 and January 1993, Hafsa Zinaï Koudil received death threats.