Abdenour Zahzah

Abdenour Zahzah is an Algerian screenwriter, director and producer. After studying at the University of Algiers, he worked as a programmer at the Blida Cinémathèque between 1997 and 2004. He completed his first film, Frantz Fanon, Mémoire d’Asile in 2002. After that, he traveled to France, where he made two documentary films, and spent a long time at the Moulin d’Andé in Normandy, where he made a film with the writer Maurice Pons. Returning to Algeria in 2007, he made several commissioned documentaries. But it was with his short fiction film Garagouz, a multi-award-winning film, that he made a name for himself. After a feature-length documentary, L’Oued, L’Oued, which won critical acclaim at festivals, he directed his first feature-length fiction film in 2024, about Dr. Frantz Fanon’s Blida-Joinville years.

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