Rachid Benhadj Explained

Rachid Benhadj
Birth Place:	Algiers, Algeria
Occupation:	film director

Mohamed Rachid Benhadj (Arabic: رشيد بن حاج, born 12 July 1949) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in Algiers, Benhadj studied architecture and cinema at the University of Paris.^[1] He made his professional debut working for the Radiodiffusion Télévision Algérienne as a documentarist.^[2] His feature film debut Louss (aka Desert Rose, 1989) received wide critical acclaim.^{[3] [4]} In the 1990s he decided to settle permanently in Italy. Starting with his second film Touchia, his films got more socially and politically committed. He is also a painter.

Filmography

• Louss (1988)
• Touchia (1992)
• L'ultima cena (1995)
• Mirka (2000)
• For Bread Alone (2006)
• Parfumes of Algiers (2012)
• The Star of Algiers (2016)
• Matarès (2019)

Notes and References

1. Book: Ginsberg . Terri . Lippard . Chris . Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema . 11 March 2010 . . 978-0-8108-7364-3 . 58 . en .
2. Book: Ginsberg . Terri . Lippard . Chris . Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema . 2020 . . 978-1-5381-3905-9 . 91–2 . en.
3. Book: Armes . Roy . Roots of the New Arab Film . 2018 . . 978-0-253-03173-0 . 30–2 . en.
4. Book: Armes . Roy . Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film . 2005 . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-21744-8 . 42 . en.