Halima Ouardiri is a Swiss-Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer.

[1] Ouardiri began pursuing a career in the arts, specifically in film, in the 2000s.

[3] Born in Geneva to a Swiss mother and a Moroccan father, Ouardiri moved to Montreal to study film at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.

[citation needed] In 2018, she was one of eight women filmmakers selected for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Apprenticeship for Women Directors program, alongside Kathleen Hepburn, Kirsten Carthew, Alicia K. Harris, Allison White, Asia Youngman, Tiffany Hsiung, and Kristina Wagenbauer.

[4] Ouardiri's first narrative feature film, The Camel Driving School, entered production in 2020.