Hamid Benani

Directing

Hamid Benani

Born

1942-11-05 (83)

Place of birth

Meknès, Morocco

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

Moroccan actor and director, born on November 5, 1942 in Meknes, obtained a BA in Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts in Rabat. He graduated from the Institute of Higher Film Studies in Paris. Bennani worked as the head of the foreign relations department for Moroccan radio and television from 1968 to 1970, then he founded with the great late Ahmed Al-Bouanani, veteran filmmaker and experimenter Mohamed Abdel Rahman Al-Tazi and Mohamed Al-Sakat the production company (Sikma 3), as previously mentioned Hamid Bennani is installed as president of the Moroccan Chamber of Film Producers. Filmmaker Hamid Bennani directed many short, documentary and long films, both cinematic and television, in th…

Known for

Behind the camera

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The film tells the story of two girls who study at a university in Rabat, live together, and both have bad pasts. Aziza (Thuraya Al-Alawi), who lost her mother due to her father’s violence, and Samira (Magdoline Al-Idrissi), whose parentage is unknown. Since they do not have a family to support them, they decided to use their intelligence and exploit their attractiveness in order to lure men. However, new events penetrate their plans and enter their lives.

Little Joy

2005

Illusion in the mirror poster
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For a film based on a fictional folk story in the world of Thousand and One Nights about Aziza, an orphan, who lives in her uncle's house and grows up with her cousin in a house, and after reaching the age of marriage, the family decides to marry them, but Aziz disappears on the wedding night, on the way home, She saw a beautiful woman who took possession of her mind and took possession of her heart, which affected her relationship with aziza.

Illusion in the mirror

2001

Traces poster
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The story of Massaoud, a rebellious young man, oppressed by both his family and the sclerotic society.

Traces

1971

Traces poster
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The story of Massaoud, a rebellious young man, oppressed by both his family and the sclerotic society.

Traces

1971

A Prayer for the Absent poster
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In Morocco, during the resistance and struggle for independence in the 1950s, Mokhtar, a cultured young man from a middle-class family in Fez, is the unwitting cause of Yamna's downfall, and she must pay a high price to regain her dignity and freedom.

A Prayer for the Absent

1995

A Prayer for the Absent poster
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In Morocco, during the resistance and struggle for independence in the 1950s, Mokhtar, a cultured young man from a middle-class family in Fez, is the unwitting cause of Yamna's downfall, and she must pay a high price to regain her dignity and freedom.

A Prayer for the Absent

1995