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French film director
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Male
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Birth:
27 April 1968(Bayonne)
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Siblings:
Mehdi Nebbou
The details
Biography
Introduction
Safy Nebbou (born 27 April 1968) is a French film director and actor.
Life and career
Safy Nebbou was born on 27 April 1968 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France to a German mother and an Algerian father. He is the brother of actor Mehdi Nebbou.
He started his career as a stage director at the Théâtre des Chimères in Paris, where Tsilla Chelton was one of his mentors, and worked as an actor. Subsequently, he directed short films, commercials for France Télécom, Orange and Renault, and feature films.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Screenwriter | Actor | |||
| 1997 | Pédagogie | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
| 1999 | Le Sourire du clown | Yes | |||
| 2001 | Bertzea | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
| 2003 | Lepokoa | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
| 2004 | The Giraffe's Neck | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cairo Film Festival - Naguib Mahfouz Award for Best Debut |
| 2006 | Une naissance | Yes | Short film | ||
| 2007 | Childhoods | Yes | Segment "L'Enfance d'Ingmar Bergman" | ||
| 2008 | Mark of an Angel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cairo Film Festival - Best Screenplay Cairo Film Festival - Best Second Work |
| 2008 | Dumas | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2012 | Comme un homme | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2016 | In the Forests of Siberia | Yes | Yes | ||