Sami Bouajila
1966 (59 лет)Bouajila's father, a skilled building painter, emigrated from Tunisia to France in 1956. His grandfather, a Berber, had previously moved to Tunisia. Bouajila was born and raised in Échirolles, a suburb south of Grenoble, and pursued studies in theatre.
In June 2024, Bouajila signed a petition calling on French President Emmanuel Macron to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
بيك نعيش
Mehdi M. Barsaoui
Sami Bouajila, Najla Ben Abdallah
Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?
A Son
Avant l'oubli
Augustin Burger
Sami Bouajila, Nieve de Medina
Jeanne fled the Franco regime at the end of the 1930s. Married and mother of a little girl, she worked in a soap factory leading a peaceful life until the day she was asked to pass out leaflets in her factory. to Algerian workers.
Avant l'oubli
Days of Glory
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
Days of Glory
Bye-Bye
Karim Dridi
Sami Bouajila
In Paris, Ismaél, a young Tunisian, cares for two brothers, Nouredine, a cripple, and streetwise Mouloud, 14. In haste, Ismaél and Mouloud go to Marseilles where an uncle lives. Nouredine has died in a fire, and Ismaél feels guilt on top of grief. Ismaél becomes friends with Jacky, a white man whose father and brother hate immigrants. Mouloud hangs out with cousin Rhida who breaks Islamic rules and deals hash. Ismaél decides Mouloud must return to Tunisia, but the boy runs off, becoming an acolyte to Rhida's supplier. Ismaél and Jacky's Arab girlfriend start an affair, friends betray friends, and the racism gets ugly. Can Ismaél rescue himself and Mouloud or will life in France crush them?
Bye-Bye
London River
Rachid Bouchareb
Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
London River
Through the Fire
Frédéric Tellier
Pierre Niney, Anaïs Demoustier
Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is about to have twins. He’s happy. During a call out to a fire, he puts himself in danger, to save his men. He’s going to have to learn to live again and accept to be the one being saved, this time.
Through the Fire
La Faute à Voltaire
Abdellatif Kechiche
Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance
Poetical Refugee
Adventures of Félix
Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
Sami Bouajila, Pierre-Loup Rajot
A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives happily with his lover Daniel and is a soap opera enthusiast and HIV-positive. After losing his job, Félix decides to find the father he never knew in Marseilles. Agreeing to meet Daniel in the southern port city in a week's time, Félix throws on his backpack and starts hiking. On his way, he discovers that family need not always be connected by blood.
Adventures of Félix
The Nest
Florent-Emilio Siri
Samy Naceri, Benoît Magimel
Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial before a European court. During the transfer, killers hired by Nexhep set up an ambush to free their boss but Laborie and her men manage to escape...
The Nest
Artemisia
Agnès Merlet
Michel Serrault, Valentina Cervi
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy, forbidden for her eyes, led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a courtroom because her teacher, Agostino Tassi, was suspected of raping her. She tried to protect him, but was put in the thumb screws...
Artemisia
Omar Killed Me
Roschdy Zem
Sami Bouajila, Maurice Bénichou
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth...
Omar Killed Me
Rouge
Farid Bentoumi
Zita Hanrot, Sami Bouajila
Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.
Red Soil
Outside the Law
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
Outside the Law
