Ismaël Ferroukhi

Ismaël Ferroukhi ( born June 26, 1962 in Kenitra ) is a French- Moroccan film director.

Life and work

Ferroukhi was born in 1962 in Morocco and grew up in a small town in the south of France.

In 1993 he turned L' exposé, with which he was awarded the Prix SACD and the Prix Kodak for the best short film at Cannes and also the audience and jury at the National Film Festival of Tangier ( Morocco) was able to convince.

A second short film, L' inconnu, was created in 1996 ( with Catherine Deneuve ).

Ismaël Ferroukhi has also worked as a screenwriter, co-author of three films by Cédric Kahn: Trop de bonheur (1994 ), Culpabilité zéro (1996) and L' avion ( 2004).

Besides, he also worked for television productions.

Ferroukhis filmography

Movies

• 2010: Les hommes libres (original title) = Free men ( Internat. title )
• 2004: The Great Journey
• 1996: L' inconnu ( short film ) with Catherine Deneuve and Miki Manolojvic
• 1993: L' exposé (Short Film ) Prix ​​spécial du jury, Festival du Court- Métrage de Clermont -Ferrand 1993
• Prix ​​du meilleur court- SACD métrage, International Film Festival of Cannes 1993
• Prix ​​Kodak
• In the official selection at the Cannes International Film Festival in Les hommes libres 2011

TV

Screenplay

• 2004: L' avion - The Plane (L' avion ) - Director: Cédric Kahn
• 1996: Culpabilité zéro - Director: Cédric Kahn
• 1994: Happiness ( Trop de bonheur ) - Director: Cédric Kahn

The Great Journey

The film The Great Journey (Arabic ألرحلة ألكبرى, actually "The biggest travel " ) is about an odd couple ( a young Frenchman of Moroccan descent and his religious father), which go on to Mecca ( hajj ) and on their journey at the same time the city and himself are getting closer.

Les hommes libres

Paris, 1942: Younes, a young Algerian who lives on the black market. When he was arrested there, he agrees to spy on the Great Mosque of Paris in return for his release. Their rector Si Kaddour Benghabrit stands among the Germans and the Vichy regime suspected to procure Jews and resistance fighters false papers. The mosque Younes befriends Salim, an Algerian singer and Jews. They are becoming active Résistants.