Biography

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...Read More