Bensalah, Djamel

(April 7, 1976, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France - )

   He studied anthropology at the University of Paris VIII before working as assistant director and assistant photographer and made some appearances in com­mercials and feature films (1994 L'Eau froide, Olivier Assayas). He directed his first movie at age twenty.

 Filmography

1996 ◘ Y a du Foutage de Gueule dans l'Air (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1999 ◘ Le Ciel, les Oiseaux . . . et ta Mère! / UK: Home-boys at the Beach (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; shot in 1997)

2002 ◘ Le Raid (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer)

2005 ◘ Il était une Fois dans l'Oued (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer; France / Algeria)

2007 ◘ Big City (also screenwriter, dialogist, co-producer)