BABYLON 2008

Karim Bensalah: Biography Babylon 2008

Writer/Director

Project Title: L'OLIVIER ROUGE/THE RED OLIVE TREE

Karim est n� en 1976 en Alg�rie, d'un p�re alg�rien et d'une m�re br�silienne. Il passe quelques ann�es en Alg�rie, au Br�sil, et puis en Ha�ti, o� il vit pendant dix ans. Ces trois pays marquent son enfance et son adolescence d'une empreinte forte. Puis c'est � Dakar que sa passion pour le th��tre et le cin�ma voit le jour.

A 18 ans, il vient �tudier les Sciences sociales et la Philosophie en France, puis entre � la London Film School, au sein de laquelle il r�alise son premier court m�trage, "Constant Flow".

Depuis son retour � Paris en 2001, il travaille comme acteur, comme r�alisateur et comme metteur en sc�ne de th��tre. Il r�alise en 2003 "Le Secret de Fatima" (30'), qui s'inscrit dans les ann�es noires de l'Alg�rie, puis "Racine(s)", en 2004, l'un des 15 courts m�trages composant le long m�trage collectif "Paris la M�tisse".

Karim enseigne �galement le cin�ma et le th��tre aupr�s de jeunes issus de milieux d�favoris�s. Il d�veloppe actuellement l'�criture de son premier long m�trage, "L'Olivier rouge", dont l'histoire se d�roule de nos jours, entre la France et l'Alg�rie.

Karim was born in 1976 in Algeria, son of an Algerian father and a Brazilian mother. He spent some years in Algeria, Brazil and then in Haiti, where he lived for 10 years. These three countries made a marked impression on his adolescence. But it was at Dakar that his passion for the cinema and the theatre emerged.

At 18, he went to study social sciences and philosophy in France, then entered the London Film School, where he directed his first short film "Constant Flow".

Since his return to Paris in 2001, he has worked as an actor, director and stage designer. In 2003 he directed 30 minute film "Le Secret de Fatima" which treated the dark years in Algeria, then "Racine(s)", in 2004, one of 15 short films included in the collective feature "Paris la M�tisse".

Karim teaches film and theatre to youths from deprived backgrounds. He is developing his first feature screenplay "L'Olivier rouge" which tells the recently unfolding history between France and Algeria.

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