Brahim Tsaki

Brahim Tsaki (in Arabic: ابراهيم تساكي), born December 27, 1946 in Sidi Bel Abbès in Algeria and died September 05, 2021 in Paris is an Algerian screenwriter and director. Brahim Tsaki studied art in the 1960s, first at the Bordj El-Kiffan School of Drama in Algiers, then at the Institut des arts de diffusion (IAD) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, where he graduated in 1972. In the early 1980s, he released a short film, La Boîte dans le désert, and, a year later, his first feature film, Les Enfants du vent (1981). The film that won the Critics’ Prize in Venice in 1981 is “a triptych with childhood as its common denominator, evoked through three short films. Tsaki films these children of the wind of contemporary Algeria with a violent tenderness.” About his works, the screenwriter and critic Djamel Mohamedi will say that he was a director who went off the beaten track through the themes present in his works. “He was a school in himself,” he continues. “For example, he paid a lot of attention to abused children.” The critic goes on to recall that Tsaki urged other directors to move away from circumstantial cinema, to innovate and to develop artistic expressions that were sincere and faithful to their vision of the 7th art. In 1983, Histoire d’une rencontre was released, which also won awards at several film festivals, including the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco), where it received the Étalon de la Yenenga in 1985 from Thomas Sankara, at the Da…