Ghaouti Bendedouche
Directing
Biography
Ghaouti Bendedouche (often written Ghaouti Bendeddouche), born in Tlemcen in 1936, is an Algerian director and screenwriter. He studies cinema at IDHEC in Paris. Upon his return to Algeria, he worked as an assistant director on feature films (for Badie, Costa-Gavras and Mazif) and for ten years as a director of documentary films. He then directed an episode "La Mer" of the collective film "L'Enfer à Dix Ans" (1968). Then the feature films: "Echebka" (1976), "Morte La Longue Nuit" (co-directed with Mohamed Slim Riad, 1979), "Moissons d'Acier" (1982), "Hassan Niya" (1989), "La Neighbor” (Al Jara) (2002).
Known For
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
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Maamar (Sid Ali Kouiret), a young fisherman working in a small port in western Algeria, is forced to sell his goods at a discount every day to Si Khelifa (Abdelhalim Rais), owner of many trucks and a cannery where the wives work fishermen. He has a strange encounter. As he returns from fishing, bassinet in hand, he witnesses a car accident. Indeed, a car hits a tree with a beautiful girl “Hayat” on board who has lost consciousness. Maamar pulls her out of the car and saves her. It is at this precise moment that he realizes the existence of another world. As if awakened from a long sleep, he realizes that this exploitation can no longer continue. He leaves his village and his wife Laâlia (Fatima Belhadj) on a whim for three years. He finds himself in the capital which he leaves to return to his village and carry out a saving action...
Echebka (الشبكة)
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Archie Shepp chez les Touaregs
Composed of archive images narrated by the writer, anthropologist and linguist Mouloud Mammeri, the film offers a reflection on the anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist struggle movements of the 1970s around the world.
Dead the Long Night
No description available.
Portrait des Radsportlers, Louis Pfenninger
The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole series of incidents, misunderstandings, will punctuate his daily routine in which we find him in turn driver, waiter, welder, etc. But, he refuses to submit to anything that does not conform to the idea he has of society and things...
Hassan Niya
Years after Algeria gained independence, war continues to claim lives in Soulima, a border village surrounded by mines, whose victims are too numerous to count. Despite all these deaths, the inhabitants remain rooted in their ancestral land. Among them stands out the noble figure of Zohra, who seems to be the soul of the village...
Harvest of Steel
Directed by Ghaouti Bendedouche.
La Voisine
This film was considered a testing ground for young O.N.C.I.C. directors. Today there is no longer a copy and the negative was accidentally destroyed. The Algerian Cinematheque has a copy of the very beautiful part shot by Abderrahmane Bouguermouh "La Give": A young schoolgirl from Kabylia is tasked by the resistance fighters with transmitting a message which is hidden in a thrush...