Djamel Bensalah

Activities : Executive Producer, Director, Author of original work, Producer, Screenwriter

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (7 films)

Beur sur la ville (2010) Director : Djamel Bensalah Actors : Booder , Issa Doumbia, Steve Tran, Sandrine Kiberlain, Josiane Balasko... Associate production company : Miroir Magique ! Genres : Fiction Synopsis : 25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police...

Neuilly yo mama (2009) Director : Gabriel Julien-Laferrière Actors : Samy Seghir, Jérémy Denisty, Rachida Brakni, Denis Podalydès, Valérie Lemercier... Associate production company : Miroir Magique !, Vito Films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : 14-year-old Sami Benboudaoud lives happily with his buddies in the Châlon projects. Unfortunately, destiny tears him one day from his paradise, and ejects him into the hell of... chic and bourgeois Neuilly-sur-Seine!He is put into...

Big City (2007) Director : Djamel Bensalah Actors : Atmen Kelif, Eddy Mitchell, Artus de Penguern, Claire Borotra, Olivier Baroux... Associate production company : Gaumont Genres : Fiction

Once Upon a Time in the Oued (2004) Director : Djamel Bensalah Actors : Julien Courbet, David Saracino, Marilou Berry, Karina Testa, Sid Hamed Agoumi... Associate production company : Gaumont Genres : Fiction Synopsis : June, 1988, the music festival in a high-rise block on the outskirts of Paris. A few young people talk about the vacation ahead. Among them there’s Yacine, 19 years old, of North African origins, and Johnny, a blond-haired, pale...

The Race (2001) Director : Djamel Bensalah Actors : Josiane Balasko, Lorànt Deutsch, Didier Flamand, Hélène de Fougerolles , Gérard Jugnot... Associate production company : Gaumont Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Four smalltime crooks pass themselves off as top-class sportsmen and join an around-the-world adventure race. They will be paid four million dollars if they kill their team captain, Léonore de Segonzac, a young, rich woman with a...

Home Boys at the Beach (1998) Director : Djamel Bensalah Actors : Jamel Debbouze, Lorànt Deutsch, Stéphane Soo Mongo, Julien Courbey, Olivia Bonamy... Associate production company : Orly Films, Extravaganza Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Youssef, Stéphane, Christophe and Mike have been buddies since chilhood. Born into modest families on the outskirts of Paris, they have always lived in the same working-class neighborhood. They went to the same schools together,...

Delegations (2)

	French Film Festival - Bienne - 2011 Director : Beur sur la ville Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Switzerland
	Dubai International Film Festival - 2005 Director : Once Upon a Time in the Oued Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : United Arab Emirates