Kamel Abdeli

Les Bodin’s partent en vrille (2025)

The Wake (2019)

Salim comes to grieve beside his mother's dead body. But very quickly, between religious customs he doesn't understand and the constant comings and goings of people he doesn't know, the young man feels uncomfortable in the small family apartment. ...

Unveiled (2018)

Three women, three generations, two secrets. In the early 1970s, a bomb exploded on board the Swissair flight 330 to Tel Aviv. Isabelle's husband also died. The young, very pregnant widow feared that her lover, the Palestinian activist Djibril, might be en ...

Planetarium (2016)

In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris. ...

Please Love Me Forever (2016)

In a surreal world, Lili, a 14-year-old albino, lives alone with her mother CLAUDIE (50) who over-protects her from the outside world. Obsessed with her own appearance; Claudie regularly replaces aging parts of her face, alone in her operating lab while Li ...

1000 Faces (2016)

Four first short films by young filmmakers. An initiative by director Houda Benyamina, produced by her association "1000 visages" (1000 faces). ...

Slim the Man (2015)

At the death of their father, Hassan and Djslil discover an old container in his house. It contains many memories: Old papers, news paper cuttings, and an old rock'n'roll album by a certain Slim the Man. ...

Goodbye to Language (2014)

"The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is ...

Harissa mon amour (2013)

Djihad! (2006)

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something ...

Viva Algeria (2004)

This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former c ...

Illumination (2004)

Since he first saw Christina, his grandmother's nurse, Ildutt has set out on a desperate and pointless quest to become normal. Since returning from a fishing trip in Scotland that sent him off the deep end, Ildutt has hidden out in the highlands in a crazy ...

Le porteur de cartable (2003)

Zonzon (1998)

In a French prison, three men are coming to terms with the emotional and physical torment which their incarceration brings them. Arnaud is serving a six-month sentence for drug smuggling; he protests his innocence and will do anything to secure an early re ...