Director
Merzak Allouache
82 years · Alger, Algérie · 29 films
Merzak Allouache (born 6 October 1944) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. His 1976 film Omar Gatlato was later entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1996 Salut cousin! was submitted to the 69th Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. He is one of the most influential Algerian filmmakers, considered by some to be the most important. He is the only Algerian filmmaker who devoted most, if not all, of his cinematic work to his native country.
Best known for
Filmography 29
Front Row
2026 · Director, Editor
The Family
2024 · Director, Writer
Le Passeur immobile
2021 · Self
Des femmes
2020 · Director
Autumn Landscapes
2019 · Director, Writer
Planet Malek
2019 · Self -Director
Divine Wind
2018 · Director, Writer
Investigating Paradise
2018 · Director, Screenplay
My Story Is Not Yet Written
2017 · Self
The Rooftops
2013 · Director, Producer
The Repentant
2013 · Director, Writer
Tata Bakhta
2012 · Director
Bay of Algiers
2012 · Director, Writer
Normal!
2012 · Director
Harragas
2009 · Writer, Director
Bab El Web
2005 · Director, Writer
Chouchou
2003 · Director
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The Other World
2001 · Director
À bicyclette
2001 · Director
La soledad del manager
1999 · Director
Love Reinvented
1997 · Director
Salut cousin !
1996 · Director, Writer
Lumière & Company
1995 · Director
Bab El Oued City
1994 · Writer, Director