Farouk Beloufa

Farouk Beloufa studied cinema at the prestigious IDHEC film school in Paris under the mentorship of legendary French film theorist Jean Rouch. Returning to Algiers, he worked with the National Film Center on avant-garde documentaries before shooting his masterwork 'Nahla' (1979) on location in Beirut.

'Nahla', starring Roger Assaf, Yasmine Khlat, and Youcef Saïah, captured the chaos, passionate intellectual debates, and heartbreak of the Lebanese Civil War through the eyes of an Algerian journalist. Acclaimed by international critics as a groundbreaking masterpiece of modernist political cinema, it earned Beloufa lasting international renown.