Brahim Tsaki

Directing

Brahim Tsaki

Born — Died

1946-12-27 — 2021-09-05

Place of birth

Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Brahim Tsaki (in Arabic: ابراهيم تساكي), born December 27, 1946 in Sidi Bel Abbès in Algeria and died September 05, 2021 in Paris is an Algerian screenwriter and director. Brahim Tsaki studied art in the 1960s, first at the Bordj El-Kiffan School of Drama in Algiers, then at the Institut des arts de diffusion (IAD) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, where he graduated in 1972. In the early 1980s, he released a short film, La Boîte dans le désert, and, a year later, his first feature film, Les Enfants du vent (1981). The film that won the Critics’ Prize in Venice in 1981 is “a triptych with childhood as its common denominator, evoked through three short films. Tsaki films these children of the w…

Known for

The Neon Children poster
10.0

Djamel and his deaf-mute companion Karim, both of North African origin, live in the middle of the materials they collect in their suburb. One evening Djamel rescues Claude, a young student who has been raped, and falls in love with her. They share a few moments of happiness despite the jealousy of Najet, in love with Djamel. Thus, they wake up together. But this budding love is soon broken by the differences that separate Djamel and Claude. This one sees itself taking back by force the chainette which he had offered to her. Shortly after, the young Maghrebi dies, victim of racism...

The Neon Children

1991

Tale of an Encounter poster
6.3

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Algerian farmer. They meet and manage to communicate, transcending all the cultural barriers that separate them.

Tale of an Encounter

1985

Children of the Wind poster
8.3

Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness

Children of the Wind

1980

No artwork available
NR

"Ayrouwen", which means "Once upon a time" in the Targui language, tells a love story between Amayas, a Targui, and Claude, a young teenager from a European city whom he met in the Great Desert of Djanet in Algeria. This passionate story will be disturbed by an old grief that comes from a first love story between Amayas and Mina. Breastfed at the same breast, so milk brother and sister, the latter could not marry...

Ayrouwen

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No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La boîte dans le désert

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Gare de Triage poster
NR

A student is holding the headmaster of his school captive at gunpoint to denounce its selectioncriteria.

Gare de Triage

1975

Behind the camera

The Neon Children poster
10.0

Djamel and his deaf-mute companion Karim, both of North African origin, live in the middle of the materials they collect in their suburb. One evening Djamel rescues Claude, a young student who has been raped, and falls in love with her. They share a few moments of happiness despite the jealousy of Najet, in love with Djamel. Thus, they wake up together. But this budding love is soon broken by the differences that separate Djamel and Claude. This one sees itself taking back by force the chainette which he had offered to her. Shortly after, the young Maghrebi dies, victim of racism...

The Neon Children

1991

The Neon Children poster
10.0

Djamel and his deaf-mute companion Karim, both of North African origin, live in the middle of the materials they collect in their suburb. One evening Djamel rescues Claude, a young student who has been raped, and falls in love with her. They share a few moments of happiness despite the jealousy of Najet, in love with Djamel. Thus, they wake up together. But this budding love is soon broken by the differences that separate Djamel and Claude. This one sees itself taking back by force the chainette which he had offered to her. Shortly after, the young Maghrebi dies, victim of racism...

The Neon Children

1991

Tale of an Encounter poster
6.3

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Algerian farmer. They meet and manage to communicate, transcending all the cultural barriers that separate them.

Tale of an Encounter

1985

Children of the Wind poster
8.3

Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness

Children of the Wind

1980

Children of the Wind poster
8.3

Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness

Children of the Wind

1980

No artwork available
NR

"Ayrouwen", which means "Once upon a time" in the Targui language, tells a love story between Amayas, a Targui, and Claude, a young teenager from a European city whom he met in the Great Desert of Djanet in Algeria. This passionate story will be disturbed by an old grief that comes from a first love story between Amayas and Mina. Breastfed at the same breast, so milk brother and sister, the latter could not marry...

Ayrouwen

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No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La boîte dans le désert

—

Gare de Triage poster
NR

A student is holding the headmaster of his school captive at gunpoint to denounce its selectioncriteria.

Gare de Triage

1975

Gare de Triage poster
NR

A student is holding the headmaster of his school captive at gunpoint to denounce its selectioncriteria.

Gare de Triage

1975