Faouzi Bensaïdi
Date of birth: 1967-03-14
Place of birth: Meknès, Morocco
Known for: Directing
Also known as: فوزي بن السعيدي
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Death for Sale
2011-09-12
In Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewelry store. The heis
WWW: What a Wonderful World
2006-09-03
Casablanca, a city of contrasts, modern and traditional. Kamel is a murderer for hire who receives h
Goodbye Morocco
2013-02-13
Tangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she
My Dad is not Dead
2023-11-05
Malik and his father Mehdi live in a funfair where they work as handymen. Mehdi gives his son five s
Wind Horse
2002-04-03
Tahar is a retired blacksmith living with his son from his first marriage. After seeing his late sec
Mektoub
1997-01-12
A young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuild
Dheepan
2015-08-26
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled P
The Blessed
2017-12-13
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth w
Sofia
2018-09-05
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself
Far Away
2001-08-29
Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile w
Volubilis
2017-07-30
Volubilis is a tale of love in a world of despair, of beauty among the ruins. In the Moroccan city o
Braids
2000-11-21
Amin is a teenage boy who lives with his two sisters, Kenza and Saida, in Tangier. Tragedy strikes w
Saint Laurent
2014-09-23
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came
Lola Pater
2017-08-09
When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid b
It Must Be Heaven
2019-12-04
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland o
A Thousand Months
2003-10-01
1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing it
Deserts
2023-09-20
Longtime friends, Mehdi and Hamid, work for a collection agency. They crisscross the villages of sou