Sid Ali Mazif

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-01-01 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Alger, Algérie

Also Known As سيد علي مزيف

Sid Ali Mazif

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

1986
Huria

as Director

1982
I Exist

as Director

1977
1976
The Nomads

as Director

1972
1971
Black Sweat

as Director

1968

Writer

1986
Huria

as Adaptation

1977
1976
The Nomads

as Writer

1971
Black Sweat

as Writer