Hamid Benamra is an author, film director and editor since 1981
a film critic since 2014
he is 5 Dan Shotokan Karate and has been doing Karate since he is 7.
He was born in 1964 in a working-class district of Algiers (La Glaciere) but his very first film made at 17 already expressed his genuine talent.
Compared by the Press to Godard, a French scholarship sent him to Paris in 1988.
Always camera on hand, his 38 years footage enables him to inject a unique temporal depth to his films.
The frame acuracy, a poetic language and his luxuriant narrative cleverly spun sign a recognizable and unique brand of his kind.
The narrative takes root in each moment of reality.
The truth, extracted from context, is fictionalized.
A way of staging life.