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Rachid Bouchareb

Producer, Actor, Director, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn September 1, 1953 (72 years)
Rachid Bouchareb (born September 1, 1953 near Paris) is a French film director of Algerian descent.

From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production (S.F.P). Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2. He formed a production company called 3B with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988.

Bouchareb began making short films in the 1980s. His featured film debut came in 1985 with Baton Rouge. Since then his acclaimed films have included Poussières de vie (Dust of Life) (which received an Academy Award nomination in 1995for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995); Little Senegal (which was shown in competition at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival; and Days of Glory, which received the Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 2006 and also won prizes at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Bouchareb's films have a following amongst international cineastes.

His film, Hors-la-loi, competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May. It was the Algerian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and was one of the five final nominees.

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Known For

  • Days of Glory
  • The Insult
  • London River
  • West Beirut
  • Outside the Law
  • The Life of Jesus
  • Belleville Cop
  • Li'l Quinquin
  • Just Like a Woman
  • Two Men in Town
  • Twentynine Palms
  • Humanity
  • Slack Bay
  • The Attack
  • Hadewijch
  • Outside Satan
  • Omar Killed Me
  • Joan of Arc
  • Flanders
  • CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans
  • Buffalo Boy
  • Camille Claudel 1915
  • Chouf
  • Little Senegal

Filmography

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