AMAL BEDJAOUI

DIRECTING

Amal Bedjaoui (in arabic : أمل بجاوي), born in Algiers on July 27, 1963, is an Algerian film director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and producer.

She is the daughter of the Algerian statesman Mohammed Bedjaoui. Amal Bedjaoui studied film at New York University and graduated from IDHEC in 1985 and obtained a DEA in Cinema from the University of Paris 1 in 1987. Amal Bedjaoui was an intern and assistant director on various feature films with Alain Resnais, Ben Lewin, Gérard Oury, Nadine Trintignant and Ariel Zeitoun, as well as a production-research preparation intern on the film Van Gogh for Maurice Pialat in 1991.