Souheil Ben-Barka

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| name = Souheil Ben-Barka

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|12|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Timbuktu, Mali

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| nationality = Moroccan

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter, film producer

| yearsactive = 1972-present

| notable_works = Amok

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Souheil Ben-Barka (born 25 December 1942) is a Moroccan film director, screenwriter and film producer.{{cite web|url=http://mubi.com/cast_members/17799 |title=Souheil Ben-Barka |accessdate=2013-01-06 |work=mubi}} He directed seven films between 1974 and 2002. His 1975 film La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1975 |title=9th Moscow International Film Festival (1975) |accessdate=2013-01-05 |work=MIFF}} His 1983 film Amok won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1983 |title=13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983) |accessdate=2013-01-30 |work=MIFF}} In 1987 he was a member of the jury at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1987 |title=15th Moscow International Film Festival (1987) |accessdate=2013-02-18 |work=MIFF}}

Biography

He was born in 1942 in Timbuktu, Mali. His father was a rich Moroccan merchant, and his mother was of Lebanese origin, her mother was of Armenian descent.{{Cite magazine|last=Oudrhiri|first=Kaouthar|date=2019-10-11|title=Souheil Ben Barka "Je dirigeais le CCM comme je l'entendais, aujourd'hui les choses ont changé"|url=https://telquel.ma//2019/10/11/souheil-ben-barka-je-dirigeais-le-ccm-comme-je-lentendais-aujourdhui-les-choses-ont-change_1653979/|magazine=Telquel|access-date=2019-12-17}}{{Cite magazine|last=Barlet|first=Olivier|date=2019-09-17|title=De sable et de feu (le rêve impossible !), de Souheil Ben Barka|url=http://africultures.com/de-sable-et-de-feu-le-reve-impossible-de-souheil-ben-barka-14757/|magazine=Africultures|access-date=2019-12-17}} He left Timbuktu at the age of 16. He spent a few years in Morocco before going to finish his higher education at Rome, Italy. One day in 1962, he happened to attend a film shooting on the street, the Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini was directing 8½. After this he decided to devote himself to the filmmaking.{{Cite magazine|last=de Rochebrune|first=Renaud|date=2019-09-26|title=Cinéma : Souheil Ben Barka en son royaume|url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/mag/832210/culture/cinema-souheil-ben-barka-en-son-royaume/|magazine=Jeune Afrique|access-date=2019-12-17}} He studied sociology and got a bachelor's degree, then he studied at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88sTRTl6yKwC|title=Dictionary of African Filmmakers|last=Armes|first=Roy|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-253-35116-6|pages=44|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIjQwhuOhwC|title=Dictionnaire des cinéastes africains de long métrage|last=Brière|first=Jean-François|publisher=KARTHALA Editions|year=2008|isbn=978-2-8111-4250-6|pages=55|language=fr}}

Filmography

class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" style="width:33px;" \|Year ! rowspan="2" \|Title ! colspan="3" \|Credited as ! rowspan="2" \|Notes
Director !Screenwriter !Producer
1972 \|A Thousand and One Hands \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| {{No}} \|
1975 \|La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| {{No}} \|
1977 \|Blood Wedding \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| {{No}} \|
1981 \|Trances \| {{No}} \| {{No}} \| {{Yes}} \|Co-producer
1982 \|Amok \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| {{No}} \|Co-writer with Michel Constantin and François Rabaté
1990 \|The Battle of the Three Kings \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| {{No}} \|Co-director with Uchkun Nazarov
1996 \|L'Ombre du pharaon \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| {{No}} \|Co-writer with Adriano Bolzoni
2002 \|Les amants de Mogador \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|Co-writer with Bernard Stora Co-producer with Andrea De Liberato
2019 \|De sable et de feu \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \|Co-writer with Monica Giansanti and Bernard Stora Co-producer with Marco Gaudenzi

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1972

|A Thousand and One Hands

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}