Rachid Bouchareb
Rachid Bouchareb (born September 1, 1953 in Paris ) is a French film director , co-director, film producer and screenwriter of Algerian descent.
Life
From 1977 to 1983 he worked as an assistant director for the French national television production company (SFP) and then for the broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2. In addition to his work as an assistant, he developed his first short films, which was followed by his feature film debut Baton Rouge in 1985 . In 1988 he founded the production company 3B Productions together with Jean Bréhat . Bouchareb was represented in the Berlinale competition with Little Senegal in 2001, with London River in 2009, and with La voie de l'ennemi in 2014.
In 2008 Bouchareb was appointed to the competition jury at the 61st Cannes Film Festival . Two years later he was invited back to the film festival competition for the film Hors-la-loi (2010), which deals with the massacre of the French army in Sétif in Algeria on May 8, 1945 . In 2011, Hors-la-loi was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film .
Filmography (selection)
- 1976: La piece (short film)
- 1977: La chute (short film)
- 1978: Le banc (short film)
- 1983: Peut-etre la mer (short film)
- 1985: Baton rouge
- 1991: Cheb - Escape from Africa (Cheb)
- 1992: Des années déchirées (television documentary)
- 1994: The children of Saigon (Poussières de vie)
- 1997: L'honneur de ma famille
- 2000: Little Senegal
- 2003: Le vilain petit poussin
- 2006: days of fame
- 2009: London River
- 2010: Hors-la-loi
- 2010: Djinns - demons of the desert (Djinns)
- 2011: Omar - A judicial scandal (Omar m'a tuer)
- 2012: Just Like a Woman
- 2014: La voie de l'ennemi
- 2016: My Daughter's War (La route d'Istanbul)
- 2016: Mercenaire
- 2016: The fine company
- 2017: The Affront (L'insulte)
Awards
Bouchareb has already been nominated three times for the Golden Bear (2001, 2009, 2014), but has not yet won this award. His film The Children of Saigon was nominated for an Oscar in 1996 for Best Foreign Language Film .
Web links
- Rachid Bouchareb in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website ( Memento of July 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlinale 2014: Competition complete . In: Berlinale.de 2014 . Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouchareb, Rachid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film director , co-director, film producer and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |