Directing
Ali Ghalem
Born
1943-01-01 (83)
Place of birth
Constantine, Algérie
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
Ali Ghalem or "Ali Ghanem", born in 1943 in Constantine, is an Algerian director. Son of peasants, he received education in a Koranic school. He went to France in 1965 and worked from factory to construction site. By his own admission, he did not write in French until many years after his arrival, which did not prevent him from writing and directing a first feature film "Mektoub?" in 1970. This first notable essay is an evocation of the life of Algerian workers in France. Five years later, he did it again with “L’Autre France” which once again describes the precarious life of immigrants. His third screenplay did not find a buyer, so he published it in the form of a novel before adapting it…
Known for
9.0Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France.
L'autre France
1977
7.0An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman.
A Wife for My Son
1982
9.0Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.
Mektoub
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chacun sa vie
2014
Film credits
Behind the camera
9.0Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France.
L'autre France
1977
9.0Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France.
L'autre France
1977
9.0Social drama about Algerian immigrant workers who came searching for work in France.
L'autre France
1977
7.0An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman.
A Wife for My Son
1982
7.0An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman.
A Wife for My Son
1982
9.0Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.
Mektoub
1970
9.0Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.
Mektoub
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chacun sa vie
2014