Rachid Bouchareb

Known for DirectingBorn 1953-09-01 (age 73)Paris, France

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachid Bouchareb, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Cheb

My Family's Honour

The Colonial Friend

The Insult

Li'l Quinquin

Dust of Life

West Beirut

London River

Days of Glory

Outside Satan

Outside the Law

Humanité

The Life of Jesus

Our Ties

Road to Istanbul

Our Brothers

Flanders

Bâton rouge

Little Senegal

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc

The Truth

Camille Claudel 1915

Slack Bay

Just Like a Woman

Two Men in Town

La bande du drugstore

France

Belleville Cop

The Empire

Twentynine Palms

Living in Paradise

Barrage

Boomerang Atomic

Camille Claudel 2012

The Ugly Little Chicken

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