Faouzi Bensaïdi
Birthday: 1967-03-14
Place of Birth: Meknès, Morocco
Biography: Faouzi Bensaïdi, born 14 March 1967, is a Moroccan film director, actor, screenwriter and artist. His film A THOUSAND MONTHS (2003) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. In 2007 and 2009 he has taken part in the Arts in Marrakech Festival showing and discussing his films and installations. In 2011, his film DEATH FOR SALE premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Moroccan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Movies
Death for Sale
In Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewelry store. The heis...
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WWW: What a Wonderful World
Casablanca, a city of contrasts, modern and traditional. Kamel is a murderer for hire who receives h...
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Goodbye Morocco
Tangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she ...
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My Dad is not Dead
Malik and his father Mehdi live in a funfair where they work as handymen. Mehdi gives his son five s...
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Wind Horse
Tahar is a retired blacksmith living with his son from his first marriage. After seeing his late sec...
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Mektoub
A young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuild...
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Dheepan
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled P...
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The Blessed
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth w...
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Sofia
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself ...
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Far Away
Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile w...
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Volubilis
Volubilis is a tale of love in a world of despair, of beauty among the ruins. In the Moroccan city o...
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Braids
Amin is a teenage boy who lives with his two sisters, Kenza and Saida, in Tangier. Tragedy strikes w...
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Saint Laurent
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came ...
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Lola Pater
When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid b...
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It Must Be Heaven
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland o...
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A Thousand Months
1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing it...
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Deserts
Longtime friends, Mehdi and Hamid, work for a collection agency. They crisscross the villages of sou...
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