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Samir Abdallah
Copenhagen, Denmark
Samir Abdallah was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Egyptian modern art pioneer Hamed Abdallah and his Danish nurse wife. He has lived in France since the age of six, where he acqu…
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Samir Abdallah was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Egyptian modern art pioneer Hamed Abdallah and his Danish nurse wife. He has lived in France since the age of six, where he acquired French nationality. After studying Drama and Cinema at the University of Nanterre in the early 1980s, he participated in the creation of the IM’Média Agency with his brother Mogniss, and produced numerous reports and documentaries on Immigration for the program Rencontres, on the French channel FR3, between 1988 and 1991. He has produced, alone or in collaboration, numerous documentaries, including: Islam in France, between traditions and modernity in 1990, The Revolt of Veaux-en-Velin in 1991, Journeys in the Land of the People, in 1991, The Ballad of the Undocumented in 1997, The Siege in 2002, Writers of the Borders, travels in Palestine(s), in 2004, Quo Va Dis?, in 2006, After the War, It’s Always War, in 2007, Gaza-strophe, Palestine, in 2009, Candidates for Arabs?, in 2012, In Revolutionary Cairo, since 2011… In 1991, he founded L’Yeux ouverts, which organizes workshops in neighborhoods and leads an international network of public screenings of films expressing a critical point of view on the contemporary world. It has more than 3,000 partners, associations and organizations, in France, Europe, Arab countries, and the Americas. This network, called Cinemeteque, develops the film website of the same name.
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2025
La bataille du Petit Bard
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2023
Une mémoire vivante : Un patrimoine commun 1973-2023
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2023
Marseille 1973, l'été meurtrier
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2018
Les Quartiers ne lâchent
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2016
Portrait : BOUZID KARA
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2012
Candidats pour du beur ?
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2011
Gaza-strophe, Palestine
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2009
Saïd Bouziri par lui-même
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2006
Quo Vadis?
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2004
Writers on the Borders - A Journey to Palestine(s)
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2002
Chronique d'un siège
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1999
Décembre 1999, Ramadan 1420, Une faim de siècle
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1998
Pour Titus
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1998
The Battle of Production
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1997
La Ballade des sans-papiers
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1991
VOYAGES AU PAYS DE LA PEUGE
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1990
PEUGEOT - L'APRÈS-GRÈVE
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1989
PEUGEOT - IMMIGRÉS DANS UNE GRÈVE POPULAIRE
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1989
Corse – « les Têtes de Maures »
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1988
ABDEL POUR MÉMOIRE
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1986
Nanterre, L' Après-transit
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1986
NANTERRE : LE MOUVEMENT GUTENBERG
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1985
Le mouvement Gutenberg
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1985
Les "Folles de la Place Vendôme"
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1983
MINGUETTES 1983 - Paix sociale ou pacification ?
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