TARIQ TEGUIA

DIRECTING

Tariq Teguia (Arabic: تقية طارق) is an Algerian director and screenwriter born in Algiers on December 12, 1966. After studying philosophy and visual arts, Tariq Teguia was a freelance photographer for an Algerian daily newspaper, assistant to a photographer and professor of contemporary art history at the Algiers School of Fine Arts.

In 2001, he defended his doctoral thesis at Paris VIII University entitled Robert Frank, cartographic fictions. He began directing with four short films: "Kech'mouvement" (1996), Le Chien (1996), Ferrailles d'attendance (1998) and La Clôture (2002).