Farouk Beloufa

Farouk Beloufa (1947-2018) was born in Oued Fodda and died in Paris on his seventy-first birthday. He belonged to the first intake of the National Film Institute in Algiers, a school abolished almost immediately, graduated in 1967 from the Institute of Advanced Cinema Studies and attended Roland Barthes's seminars in Paris, where he presented a work of theory. His first commission, an archive montage on the war, was censored and re-edited without his signature. The first Algerian assistant to Youssef Chahine, he then left the country for nearly twenty years and never completed anything again.

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• CinemaNahlaFarouk Beloufa · 1979Cinema