Abdellatif Kechiche

Activities : Actor, Director, Screenwriter

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (10 films)

Blue is the Warmest Color (2012) Director : Abdellatif Kechiche Actors : Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Mona Walravens , Jérémie Laheurte, Catherine Salée... Associate production company : Quat'sous films, Wild Bunch Genres : Fiction Synopsis : 15-year-old Adèle knows two things: she's a girl, and a girl goes out with boys. The day she glimpses the blue streaks in Emma's hair on the main square, she feels that her life is going to change. Alone with her teenage questions...

Black Venus (2010) Director : Abdellatif Kechiche Actors : Yahima Torres, André Jacobs, Olivier Gourmet, Elina Löwensöhn, François Marthouret... Associate production company : mk2 Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Paris, 1817, within the Académie Royale de Médecine. "I've never seen a human head that so closely resembles a monkey's." Anatomist Georges Cuvier is categorical when looking at the cast made of Saartjie Baartman's body. A panel...

The Secret of The Grain (2005) Director : Abdellatif Kechiche Actors : Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Faridah Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Bouraouïa Marzouk... Associate production company : Pathé Films, Hirsch Genres : Fiction Synopsis : At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his...

Games of Love and Chance (2003) Director : Abdellatif Kechiche Actors : Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benahmou, Hafet Ben-Ahmed... Associate production company : Lola Films, Noé Productions Int. Genres : Fiction Synopsis : An angel passes through the high-rise housing projects on the outskirts of Paris, enthusiastically reciting dialog from Marivaux. Her name is Lydia and she’s rehearsing “The Game of Love and Chance,” her class show for the school...

La Boîte magique (2003) Director : Ridha Behi Actors : Marianne Basler, Abdellatif Kechiche, Lotfi Bouchnak, Medhi Rebii, Hichem Rostom Associate production company : Films & Trames Distribution Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Tunisia today… Raouf, a well known filmmaker, is deeply unhappy about his disintegrating relationship with his French wife. She rejects the confinement in which she feels she’s been prisoner for too long, far from her homeland....

Poetical Refugee (2000) Director : Abdellatif Kechiche Actors : Élodie Bouchez, Sami Bouajila, Aure Atika, Bruno Lochet, Virginie Darmon... Associate production company : Flach Film Genres : Fiction Synopsis : 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...

Festival Selections (1)

Lumiere Awards - 2008 : The Secret of The Grain Type : Awards Location : France

Awards (3)

	Cesar Awards - French film industry awards - 2008 Best Director : The Secret of The Grain Type : Awards Location : France
	Dubai International Film Festival - 2007 : The Secret of The Grain Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : United Arab Emirates
	Cesar Awards - French film industry awards - 2005 Best Director : Games of Love and Chance Best Original or Adapted Screenplay : Games of Love and Chance Type : Awards Location : France

Delegations (13)

	Venice International Film Festival - 2010 Director : Black Venus Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Italy
	Beirut - Beirut Film Meetings - 2008 Director : Poetical Refugee Director : The Secret of The Grain Director : Games of Love and Chance Type : Feature film festival Location : Lebanon
	Venice International Film Festival - 2007 Director : The Secret of The Grain Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Italy
	New York New Directors New Films Festival - 2005 Director : Games of Love and Chance Type : Feature film festival Location : United States
	Cesar Awards - French film industry awards - 2005 Screenwriter : Games of Love and Chance Director : Games of Love and Chance Type : Awards Location : France
	San Francisco International Film Festival - 2004 Director : Games of Love and Chance Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : United States
	Greece - French Film Festival - 2004 Director : Games of Love and Chance Type : Feature film festival Location : Greece
	International Film Festival of Berlin - 2004 Director : Games of Love and Chance Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Germany
	Stockholm French Film Festival - 2002 Director : Poetical Refugee Type : Feature film festival Location : Sweden
	Rotterdam International Film Festival - 2001 Director : Poetical Refugee Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Netherlands
	Acapulco French Film Festival - 2000 Director : Poetical Refugee Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Mexico
	Montreal Festival of New Cinema - 2000 Director : Poetical Refugee Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Canada
	Venice International Film Festival - 2000 Director : Poetical Refugee Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Italy