Nabil Ben Yadir (born 24 February 1979) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and producer.
Career
Ben Yadir made his feature-length directorial debut in 2009 with ''
The Barons
''The Barons'' () is a 2009 Belgian comedy film directed by Nabil Ben Yadir. It was written by Yadir, Laurent Brandenbourger and Sébastien Fernandez. It premiered on 2 September 2009 at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur. ...
'', which he also co-wrote with
Laurent Brandenbourger and Sébastien Fernandez. The film was nominated for six
Magritte Awards
A Magritte Award (, ) is an accolade presented by the Académie André Delvaux of Belgium to recognize cinematic achievement in the film industry. Modelled after the French César Award, the formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is on ...
, including
Best Director and
Best Screenplay.
His second feature, ''
The Marchers'', was screened in Official Competition at
Cannes
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. Filming for a political thriller, ''
Blind Spot'' (''Dode Hoek''), set against
Belgium's Flemish-French divide, began in the spring of 2014.
Before becoming a filmmaker, Ben Yadir worked on an
assembly line
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for
Volkswagen
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. He spent "months on end doing exactly the same thing". This influenced his choice to select a different
genre
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for each of his films: "now I make sure that I always take new challenges and adopt new approaches".
[ Ben Yadir has a film production company called L'Antilope Joyeuse.][ His next film, '']Animals
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia (). With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a ...
'' (2021), was based on the 2012 murder of gay man Ihsane Jarfi.
Filmography
References
External links
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Living people
Belgian male actors
Belgian film directors
Belgian male screenwriters
Belgian people of Moroccan descent
Moroccan film directors
Moroccan screenwriters
1979 births
21st-century Belgian screenwriters
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