Nejib Belkadhi

Nejib Belkadhi
Belkadhi in February 2015.
نجيب بلقاضي
Born13 May 1972 Edit this on Wikidata
Tunis, Tunisia
NationalityTunisian
OccupationActor, director

Nejib Belkadhi (Arabic: نجيب بلقاضي; born May 13, 1976, in Tunis, Tunisia) is a Tunisian actor and director.[1][2]

Education

He studied marketing and management at the Carthage High Commercial Studies Institute in Carthage, before he started a career in arts.[3]

Career

Nejib had his first acting role in Hbiba Msika (Dancer of the Flame), a film by Selma Baccar, in 1995. He then starred in Mohamed Kouka's play Madrasat Nisaa(مدرسة النساء / The Women's School), however, Nejib's best success was in the series El Khottab Al Bab (الخطاب عالباب /Many Fiancees) appearing in both volumes 1 and 2 (1996–1998) for the director Slaheddine Essid.

Nejib Belkadhi began his career in directing during 1998 on the TV network Canal+ Horizons, covering the Carthage Film Festival, before creating the network's most successful TV show: Chams Alik (شمس عليك ), whose concept revolutionized the Tunisian TV scene. He conceived, produced and co-presented the show from 1999 to 2001.

In 2002, he founded Propaganda Productions, with his friend Imed Marzouk, and in 2003 he directed and produced a socio-critical fake reality show called Dima Lebess (ديما لا باس /Always fine), which was broadcast on the Canal21 TV channel.

He directed his first movie in 2005, a short film called Tsawer (تصاور/Pic), with a screenplay of Souad Ben Slimane.

VHS Kahloucha (2006), his first feature documentary film, was screened to great acclaim at international film festivals, including Cannes (2006), Philadelphia (2007), Sundance l (2007) and Dubai (2007), and it was his most successful work to date.[3]

His last movie, Bastardo, was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2013.[2]

During Ramadan 2019, he played one of the main roles in the series L'Affaire 460 by Majdi Smiri.[4]

Filmography

Actor

Cinema

Television

  • 1996 – 1997: El Khottab Al Bab (The Suitors are on the Door) by Slaheddine Essid
  • 1998: Il tesoro di Damasco (The Treasure of Damas) by José María Sánchez as Sameer
  • 2004: Loutil (The Hostel) by Slaheddine Essid
  • 2008: Weld Ettalyena (The Son of the Italian) by Nejib Belkadhi
  • 2015: Lilet Chak (The Doubt Night) by Majdi Smiri As Yahiya Ben Abdullah
  • 2016: The President by Jamil Najjar As Louay Said
  • 2018: Tej El Hadhra by Sami Fehri As General Osman
  • 2019: The Affair 460 by Majdi Smiri As Malek Ben Jaafar
  • 2021+2022: 13 Garibaldi Avenue by Amin Chiboub

Theater

  • 1995: The Women's School by Mohamed Kouka

Director

Cinema

  • 2005: Tsawer (Pictures) (Short film)
  • 2006: VHS Kahloucha (Documentary)
  • 2013: Bastardo (English) (Feature film)
  • 2014: Seven and a Half (Documentary)
  • 2018: look at Me (film, 2018) (Feature film)

Television

  • 1999–2001: Chams Alik on Canal Horizons+
  • 2002: Dima Labes on Canal 21
  • 2008: Weld Ettalyena (Son of The Italian) (TV-Serial)
  • 2020: The Host and The Tramp (Web-Serial)

TV shows

Producer

  • 2006: The Tarzan of the Arabs (Feature Documentary)
  • 2017: When The Sun Starts To Cry of Kais Mejri

Honours

  • 2007: Knight of the Tunisian Order of Merit[5]

References

  1. ^ "Nejib Belkadhi". tunisia-live.net (in French). Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Cinéma – Nejib BelkadhiL "'Regarde-moi' est avant tout une ode à la différence"". LE Point Alfrique. December 6, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "PARK CITY '07 INTERVIEW, Nejib Belkadhi". indiewire.com. January 26, 2007. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  4. ^ "Zoom sur "l'affaire 460"". espace manager.
  5. ^ "Décrets et arrêtés" (PDF). Journal officiel de la République tunisienne. p. 2223. ISSN 0330-7921.
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