Souheil Ben Barka

Souheil Ben Barka was born in Timbuktu on 25 December 1942, to a Moroccan merchant father and a Lebanese mother; the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre's file gives his birth as the 26th. After studies in Morocco, he left for Italy, was a journalist in Milan for the Acigraf agency from 1966 to 1969, followed the courses of the Centro sperimentale in Rome and began as an assistant to Pier Paolo Pasolini; he also shot documentaries for Rai. Back in Morocco, he founded Euro-Maghreb Films and was, according to Africultures, a distributor and cinema owner. He headed the Centre from 1986 to 2003.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaA Thousand and One Handsألف يد ويدSouheil Ben Barka · 1972Cinema