Diretores / 49ª mostra

A film editor, screenwriter and director who was born in Mohammedia, Morocco, in 1962. After university studies in Aix-en-Provence, in the early 1980s he enrolled at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC, later La Fémis). There he met Laurent Cantet, with he cowrote and edited a number of films, including “Human Resources” (1999), “Time Out” (2001, 25th Mostra), “Heading South” (2005, 29th Mostra) and “The Class” (2008), winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2004, he directed his first feature, “They Came Back”. After that he made “Eastern Boys” (2013), winner of best film award in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Festival, “120 Beats per Minute” (2017), winner of the critics’ prize and Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and “Red Island” (2023), presented at the San Sebastian Film Festival.