Screening of the film La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua by Assia Djebar (1977) followed by a discussion with Katia Kameli and Ahmed Bedjaoui, producer of the film
Ahmed Bedjaoui
Ahmed Bedjaoui is a journalist, producer and professor of communication at the University of Algiers 3. He holds a PhD in literature.
Laureate of the “Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques” (IDHEC – Paris), he is the artistic director of the Algiers Festival of Engaged Film, and also President of the Algerian Film Fund.
He produced and presented the program “Télécinéclub”, broadcast for 20 years on the Algerian national channel and produced for it about 76 films, among which the two films of Assia Djebar, Nahla by Farouk Beloufa, or How much I love you by Azeddine Meddour.
Ahmed Bedjaoui has published dozens of articles in international journals and Algerian newspapers.
He is the author of five books including: Cinema and Arab Literature, Cinema in its Golden Age, published in November 2018 and most recently Cinema and Algerian War of Independence. In 2015, UNESCO awarded him the Federico Fellini Medal for his contribution to world film culture. In 2019, he presides the fiction jury at the fiftieth anniversary of FESPACO.