Raouf
Benia
Native of Algeria (Médéa, 1978), influenced by his cinephile mother, he begins after his studies a training as a director on the internet at Cinecours.com. In September 2010, he participates in the screenwriting competition organized by Thala Films Production as part of the project Alger Demain, les films. He wrote Un jour à Alger which will be selected at the Festival Cinemed in Montpellier (2011).he then joined Meditalents to develop his feature film project Un meurtre à la Une, as well as his short film Cet homme, qui est-il? After Meditalents, he directed and produced the documentary Al Arbun for the CNRPAH. Then he joined the Quebec collective "El Djazair mon amour" and produced a series of short films in co-production with Kinomada which allowed him to direct his second short film Cet homme, qui est-il? developed at Meditalents, as part of the Kinomada Quebec 2014 short film creation laboratory. He teaches audiovisual techniques since 2015 at the Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH).
Un meurtre à la une
Said is a journalist and fetish columnist of an Algerian newspaper, miraculously escaped from a terrorist attack.Refuge in a small studio where initially his stay was not to exceed 5 days, the time that his director and best friend, Farid, makes him the visa with his family for France. But given his problems with the justice system (censorship), his stay is extended.Said only communicates with the outside world through two means, his fax phone with which he sends his columns to his newspaper, and a delivery man, Kamel, whom he never meets.One day for the first time in more than 40 days, he receives a phone call; the calls are repeated... He has been found... Said decides to stop hiding and goes out ....
