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Free Men (film)
''Free Men'' () is a 2011 French war drama film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other Muslims from the Maghreb in Paris played in the French Resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944). It features two historic figures: Si Kaddour Benghabrit, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, and Salim Halali, an Algerian Jewish singer. The film stars Tahar Rahim playing a fictional young Algerian and Michael Lonsdale as the rector. Plot In occupied Paris, the young unemployed Algerian, Younes Ben Daoud, makes a living on the black market. He is arrested by the police, and to avoid prison he agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect that the mosque leadership, including its rector Si Kaddour Benghabrit, is helping resistance fighters and protecting North African Jews by giving them Muslim birth certificates. While at the mosque, Younes meets the Alge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismaël Ferroukhi
Ismaël Ferroukhi (born 26 June 1962) is a French- Moroccan film director and screenwriter. Ferroukhi was born in Kenitra. He gained exposure with his 1992 short film ''L'Exposé'', which won the Kodak Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Following, Ferroukhi co-wrote the Cédric Kahn film '' Trop de bonheur'' (1994). His directorial debut '' Le Grand Voyage'', produced by Humbert Balsan and Ognon Pictures, won the Lion of the Future "Luigi De Laurentiis" Award for a First Feature Film at the 61st Venice Film Festival in 2004. Filmography Awards and nominations *''L'Exposé'' (1993) (Kodak Short Film Award, 1993 Cannes Film Festival) *'' Le Grand Voyage'' (2004) (Nomination: Golden Star, Marrakech International Film Festival) *'' Le Grand Voyage'' (2004) (Luigi De Laurentiis Award, Venice Film Festival) *'' Le Grand Voyage'' (2005) (Best Film, Mar del Plata Film Festival The Mar del Plata International Film Festival () is an List of film festivals, international film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Shalaby
Mahmoud (or Mahmud) Shalaby, or Mahmood Shalabi (; or ; born 19 July 1982), is an Israeli Palestinian actor, rapper, and musician. He has acted in several films produced or co-produced in France and received the award for best male actor at the Film Festival of La Réunion in 2011 for the role of Naïm in the film ''A Bottle in the Gaza Sea'', directed by Thierry Binisti and adapted from the novel ''Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza'' by Valérie Zenatti. He was honored with two other awards at the same festival. He was a member of the Palestinian hip hop group MWR, which toured Palestine, Europe, and the United States. Life and career Shalaby grew up in a poor neighborhood in Acre marked by urban violence. In 1998, he started the rap and hip-hop group, MWR, with his friends Waseem Aker, Richard Savo, and Charlie Shaabi. The lyrics in their songs often touched on the Palestinian struggle and the issues of drugs and crime in their society. He was interviewed in 2008 in the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Films
The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths. More film sequels were released in 2011 than any other year before it, with 27 sequels released. Evaluation of the year Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' observed that the best films of 2011 "exalt the metaphysical, the fantastical, the transformative, the fourth-wall-breaking, or simply the impossible, and—remarkably—do so ... These films depart from 'reality' ... not in order to forget the irrefutable but in order to face it, to think about it, to act on it more freely". Film critic and filmmaker Scout Tafoya of '' RogerEbert.com'' considers the year of 2011 as the best year for cinema, countering the notion of 1939 being film's best year overall, citing examples such as '' Drive'', '' The Tree of Life'', '' Once Upon a Time in Anatolia'', '' Keyhole'', '' Contagion'', ''The Adventures of Tint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinéfranco
Cinéfranco is an annual film festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which presents a weeklong program of both Canadian and international French language films. History The festival was established in 1997 by Marcelle Lean, a former chair of the Ontario Film Development Corporation, and was staged for the first time in February 1998."Festival opens a door to French film". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 27, 1998. Lean remained the event's executive director as of 2015. Unlike larger events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, all films throughout the week were screened in a single theatre venue."Bringing more than l'amour to the English". ''Toronto Star'', March 26, 2010. To establish broader audience appeal beyond the city's francophone community alone, all films were screened with English language subtitles. Separately from the main festival, an annual youth program of films for children and teenagers is also staged each year. The separate youth program was launched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate its founding, the CBC is the oldest continually-existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique (international radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website). The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Prophet
''A Prophet'' () is a 2009 French prison crime film directed by Jacques Audiard with a screenplay by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit, from a story by Dafri. The film stars Tahar Rahim in the title role as an imprisoned petty criminal of Algerian origin who rises in the prison hierarchy. He becomes a mob associate and drug trafficker as he is absorbed into the Corsican mafia and then ingratiates himself into the Maghrebi crime syndicate. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. Plot Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old of Maghrebi descent, is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. Alone and illiterate upon his arrival, he falls under the sway of Corsican mobsters, led by César Luciani, who enforces a brutal rule. The prison is divided between two main factions: the Corsicans and the Maghrebis. Malik keeps to himself. When Luciani forces him to be the unwilling assassin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Cannes Film Festival
The 64th Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 to 22 May 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition. American filmmaker Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film '' The Tree of Life''. The festival opened with '' Midnight in Paris'' by Woody Allen, and closed with '' Beloved'' by Christophe Honoré. Mélanie Laurent hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with the third Honorary Award at the opening ceremony of the festival. Jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof were honoured at the festival. '' Goodbye'' by Rasoulof and Panahi's '' This Is Not a Film'' were screened at the festival. For the first time ever, four female directors were featured in the main competition: Australian filmmaker Julia Leigh, Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and French filmmaker M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gestapo
The (, ), Syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated Gestapo (), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Free State of Prussia, Prussia into one organisation. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936. Instead of being exclusively a Prussian state agency, the Gestapo became a national one as a sub-office of the (SiPo; Security Police). From 27 September 1939, it was administered by the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). It became known as (Dept) 4 of the RSHA and was considered a sister organisation to the (SD; Security Service). The Gestapo committed widespread atrocities during its existence. The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters (clergy and religious org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slimane Dazi
Slimane Dazi is a French actor. Born in Nanterre, he is of Algerian-Berber descent. Filmography References External links * French male film actors Living people 21st-century French male actors French male television actors Year of birth missing (living people) French people of Algerian-Berber descent {{France-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Rideau
Stéphane Rideau (born 25 July 1976) is a French actor. Although intending to pursue a career in sports, he was discovered in 1992 at a rugby game and then auditioned for a role in the film ''Les Roseaux sauvages'' (''Wild Reeds'') by André Téchiné. He was, at the time, sixteen years old. He later played the role of a gay teenager in '' Presque rien'' (''Come Undone'') directed by Sébastien Lifshitz. Rideau has a long acting experience that includes the films ''Loin The loins, or lumbus, are the sides between the lower ribs and pelvis, and the lower part of the back. The term is used to describe the anatomy of humans and quadrupeds, such as horses, pigs, or cattle. The anatomical reference also applies to p ...'', '' Le Ventre de Juliette'', '' Le Clan'' and '' Le Cadeau d'Élena''. He currently lives with his partner Celia and their daughter. Filmography References External links Official website of Stéphane Rideau* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rideau, Stephane 1976 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
