1981-89

Hamid Benamra had already made 6 narrative films screened in the Cinematheques all over Algeria, in Bruxelles and in the Fespaco.


1982

Mouny Berrah dedicated him two pages in Les 2 écrans #50 and compared him to Godard.


2012

Pieces of lives, pieces of dreams

Best Documentary (11th Panafrican Film Festival - Cannes 2014)

Audience Choice (JCA - Algiers 2012).

Taught in 2 universities in Tunisia.


2016

two feature films :


Reveries of the Solitary Actor

In The Book of Cinema #9, Critic Mohammed Rouda gives 5 stars to the film with only 2 others.

 

Hizam

World premiered at the 38th Cairo International Film Festival.

An Algerian male eye on femininity and dancing.

 


Born in 1964 in Hussein-Dey, he had studied philosophy in Algiers before a French grant sent him to ESEC. Then he attended Marc Ferro's History & Cinema classes at EHESS.

Hamid Benamra is also 4th Dan Karate Shotokan.