Bachir Bensaddek

Canadian director of Algerian Berber origin

January 1, 1971 (53 years old)

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La Route de Chlifa

Can. 2025. Drama by Bachir Bensaddek. As a refugee in Lebanon, a Syrian-born teenager haunted by the ordeals of war must come to terms with the disappearance of his father.

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La Femme cachée

Can. 2024. Drama by Bachir Bensaddek with Nailia Harzoune, Antoine Bertrand, Athéna Henry. The troubled past of a French woman who has rebuilt her life in Quebec comes to the surface when she becomes pregnant with her second child.

Runtime: 101 min.

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Kaboul, Montréal

Can. 2023. Social drama by Bachir Bensaddek. After fleeing an arranged marriage in Afghanistan and marrying a fellow countryman in Montreal, an immigrant woman must return home 15 years later to marry her daughters to their cousins.

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Montreal, White City

V.O.: Montréal la Blanche

Can. 2016. Drama by Bachir Bensaddek with Rabah Aït Ouyahia, Karina Aktouf, Hacene Benzerari. On Christmas Eve, in Montreal, an Algerian cab driver helps an Algerian woman find her ex-husband and daughter.

Runtime: 97 min.