Mehdi Charef
Birth : 1952-10-21, Marnia, Oran, France [now Algeria]
History
Mehdi Charef (born 21 October 1952) is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film Le thé au harem d'Archimède was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. Seven years later, his film Au pays des Juliets competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1992 festival.
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Screenplay
A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.
Director
A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.
Writer
A pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.
Director
A pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.
Writer
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
Director
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
Director
A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society, one that still clings to tribal mores and strict religious codes of conduct.
Writer
A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.
Director
A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.
Screenplay
Three young female prisoners become friends while stranded in a provincial train station.
Director
Three young female prisoners become friends while stranded in a provincial train station.
Director
Directed by Mehdi Charef.
Writer
A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs.
Director
A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs.
Director
An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies.
Novel
The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.
Screenplay
The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.
Director
The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.
