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Lyès Salem

Lyès Salem

Franco-Algerian actor, screenwriter and director
in theaters starting January 10th 2025 (QC)
Fr. 2024. Drama by Ronan Tronchot with Grégory Gadebois, Géraldine Nakache, Lyès Salem. A priest in a small town in central France learns that he is the father of an 11-year-old boy.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2024. Comedy by Florent Bernard with Charlotte Gainsbourg, José Garcia, Lili Aubry. Faced with his wife's threat to divorce him, a father organizes a weekend pilgrimage with their children to key places in the family's history.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 2023. History by Jean-Claude Barny with Mathieu Kassovitz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Lyès Salem. In the 1950s in Algeria, Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of Martinique origin, defended a discourse of decolonization that irritated the French authorities.
Fr. 2021. Drama by Fabien Gorgeart with Mélanie Thierry, Lyès Salem, Gabriel Pavie. After raising a little boy from the age of 18 months to six years, a foster family sees the child's biological father claiming custody.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Zangro with Lyès Salem, Djemel Barek, Yamin Dib. A young man comes into conflict with his father, president of the local rugby club, who wants to transform the mosque into a nightclub for the end of the game.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Robin Sykes with Thierry Lhermitte, Rayane Bensetti, Émilie Caen. Forced to take care of his grandfather who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, a teenager from Lyon, who doesn’t want to miss his basketball final in Paris, decides to take him with him.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2016. Drama by Louis-Julien Petit with Isabelle Adjani, Corinne Masiero, Lyès Salem. The struggle of a doctor overwhelmed by the psychological distress of the employees of a telemarketing company subjected to management
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Guillaume Malandrin, Stéphane Malandrin with Bouli Lanners, Wim Willaert, Lyès Salem. After stealing the ashes of their lead singer, the members of a rock band discover that he was having a homosexual affair with a military pilot.
Runtime: 96 min.

My Afternoon With Margueritte

V.O.: La Tête en friche
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Jean Becker with Gérard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus, Anne Le Guernec. An uneducated grocer is awakened to the pleasure of words by an old woman who reads him novels by great writers every day.
Runtime: 82 min.

Masquerades

V.O.: Ä Jiala
Alg. 2008. by Lyès Salem.

L'Affaire Ben Barka - 1ère partie

V.O.: L'Affaire Ben Barka
Fr. 2007. History by Jean-Pierre Sinapi with Atmen Kelif, Simon Abkarian, Olivier Gourmet. In the 1960s, the nebulous circumstances surrounding the kidnapping in Paris and murder of an opponent of King Hassan II of Morocco.
Runtime: 180 min.
Fr. 2004. Thriller by Aruna Villiers with Nastassja Kinski, Audrey DeWilder, Christophe Lambert. Unaware that her daughter is the result of a medical cloning experiment, a woman is concerned about her daughter's strange behavior as a teenager.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 2003. Comedy by Pierre Jolivet with Sandrine Kiberlain, Sylvie Testud, Vincent Lindon. A young shoe-thief befriends an uptight investigating judge and helps her in her investigations.
Runtime: 83 min.

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