Sid Ali Mazif

Sid Ali Mazif was born in 1943 in Algiers and studied film at the National Film Institute. An assistant on landmark films of the early days of Algerian cinema, he moved into directing in 1972 with a film on miners in the colonial period, then turned to the settling of nomads. He is among those who, in the seventies, shifted Algerian cinema from the war to society, and he went on to campaign for women's rights, to which he was still devoting documentaries in 2007. He died in Algiers on 2 May 2023, aged seventy-nine.

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• CinemaLeïla et les autresSid Ali Mazif · 1977Cinema