Souheil Ben-Barka’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Film director, screenwriter, film producer
Is Film director
Screenwriter
Film producer
From Mali
Morocco
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender male
Birth

25 December 1942, Timbuktu, Mali

Age 78 years
Star sign Capricorn
Education
Experimental Centre of Cinematography

Souheil Ben-Barka (born 25 December 1942) is a Moroccan film director, screenwriter and film producer. 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. His 1983 film Amok won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1987 he was a member of the jury at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.

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. 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. He studied sociology and got a Bachelor’s degree, then he studied at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.

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