Farouk Beloufa
Farouk Beloufa (فاروق بلوفة), born in 1947 in Oued Fodda in Algeria, is an Algerian film critic and director. He is the father of the Franco-Algerian filmmaker and visual artist Neïl Beloufa. Farouk Beloufa studied cinema at INC, this Algerian film school that quickly... Read full bio →
Awdat al ibn al dal
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.