Person

Sid Ali Mazif

Directing · Born 1943-01-01 · Alger, Algérie

Sid Ali Mazif (سيد علي مزيف), is an Algerian director, born in 1943 in Algiers. After starting as an assistant on the set of Twenty Years in Algiers by Marc Sator, Sid Ali Mazif studied at the Ben Aknoun National Cinema Institute, near Algiers. As part of his training, he made his first short films between 1965 and 1966. He then joined the future ONCIC for which he shot documentaries such as La Cueillette des Oranges and Le Paludisme en Algérie (1967). He also collaborated on two important collective films of Algerian cinema: Hell at Ten Years (1968) on the experience of children during the war of liberation and Récits de la Révolution (1970). His first feature film, Black Sweat tells the story of the repression of a miners' strike during colonialism. Les Nomades (1975) addresses the delicate problem of the necessary sedentarization of tribes. Since Leila and the Others (1977), Sid Ali Mazif has campaigned, through his films, for the improvement of the condition of women in his country.

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  Black Sweat

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  Huria

  Adaptation

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  I Exist

  Director

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  Stories of the Revolution

  Director

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  The Nomads

  Director

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  Leila and the Others

  Director

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  Hell is Ten Years Old

  Director

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  So that Algeria May Live

  Director

• 1986HuriaAdaptation
• 1982I ExistDirector
• 1977Leila and the OthersDirector
• 1976The NomadsDirector
• 1972So that Algeria May LiveDirector
• 1971Black SweatWriter
• 1969Stories of the RevolutionDirector
• 1968Hell is Ten Years OldDirector