Faouzi Bensaïdi
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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.175 |
Birthday | 1967-03-14 |
Place of Birth | Meknès, Morocco |
Also Known As | فوزي بن السعيدي, |
2011
Death for Sale
6.4/6
In Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewelry store. The heist goes awry, and their destinies part drastically.
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Death for Sale
2006
WWW: What a Wonderful World
6.9/7
Casablanca, a city of contrasts, modern and traditional. Kamel is a murderer for hire who receives his encrypted assignments online. After his executi...
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WWW: What a Wonderful World
2013
Goodbye Morocco
5.1/11
Tangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she manages. She hopes to raise enough money to be abl...
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Goodbye Morocco
2023
My Dad is not Dead
0/0
Malik and his father Mehdi live in a funfair where they work as handymen. Mehdi gives his son five special paintings. Curious Malik is dazzled by the...
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My Dad is not Dead
2002
Wind Horse
10/1
Tahar is a retired blacksmith living with his son from his first marriage. After seeing his late second wife in a dream, he decides to visit her grave...
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Wind Horse
1997
Mektoub
5.5/2
A young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuilds her relationship with her husband on a trip to t...
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Mektoub
2015
Dheepan
6.8/469
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as t...
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Dheepan
2017
The Blessed
6.5/13
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their...
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The Blessed
2018
Sofia
6.171/38
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of...
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Sofia
2001
Far Away
5.8/10
Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused...
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Far Away
2017
Volubilis
6.6/3
Volubilis is a tale of love in a world of despair, of beauty among the ruins. In the Moroccan city of Meknès, recently married Abdelkader and Malika...
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Volubilis
2000
Braids
0/0
Amin is a teenage boy who lives with his two sisters, Kenza and Saida, in Tangier. Tragedy strikes when Saida is raped by the son of the man Kenza wor...
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Braids
2014
Saint Laurent
6.2/284
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
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Saint Laurent
2017
Lola Pater
6.2/29
When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola.
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