Tariq Teguia

{{Short description|Algerian film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1966)}}

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| birth_date = 1966

| birth_place = Algeria

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Tariq Teguia (born 1966) is an Algerian film director, screenwriter and producer.

He studied visual arts and philosophy in Paris. He was an arts history teacher and a photographer, before filming some well-regarded shorts in the 1990s{{cite web |url=https://filmstudycenter.org/fellows-works/tariq-teguia/ |title=Tariq Teguia |publisher=Film Study Center, Harvard University}} and a 2003 documentary short.

His 2006 feature film debut, Rome wa la n-toura (Rome Rather Than You), won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Fribourg International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=https://www.cath.ch/newsf/fribourg-succes-du-21e-festival-international-de-films-de-fribourg/ |title=Friborg: Success of the 21st Friborg International Film Festival |website=www.cath.ch}} Variety magazine critic Robert Koehler praised "Tariq Teguia’s highly accomplished debut ... Although the final moments are foreseeable, both the getting there and the immediate aftermath show Teguia to be a director of major promise".{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/reviews/rome-rather-than-you-1200509508/ |title=Rome Rather Than You |author=Robert Roehler |date=21 March 2007 |magazine=Variety}} Eric Henderson dissented, writing in Slant Magazine that the film was "arrogantly conceived, pretentiously executed, and petulantly protracted".{{cite magazine |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/rome-rather-than-you/ |title=Review: Rome Rather Than You |author=Eric Henderson |date=13 March 2007 |magazine=Slant Magazine}}

Teguia's next film, Gabbla (2008), was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival{{cite web |url=https://fipresci.org/festival/65th-venice-international-film-festival/ |title=65th Venice International Film Festival |publisher=International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI)}} and the Daum Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Jeonju International Film Festival.{{cite news |url=https://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php%3Fidx=8401 |title=A Whole Host of Winners at JIFF 2009 |author=Matthew Love |newspaper=The Seoul Times}} The 2013 Entrevues Belfort film festival Grand Jury Prize went to his Thwara Zanj (Zanj Revolution) (2013).{{cite web |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1158 |title=The Zanj Revolution (Revolution Zendj). 2013. Directed by Tariq Teguia |publisher=Museum of Modern Art}}