Nejib Belkadhi

Nejib Belkadhi (Arabic: نجيب بلقاضي‎; born May 13, 1972, in Tunis, Tunisia) is a Tunisian actor and director.[1][2]

Nejib Belkadhi
Nejib Belkadhi, February 2015.
نجيب بلقاضي
Born13 May 1972  (age 48)
Tunis, Tunisia
NationalityTunisian
OccupationActor, director

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 Salma 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]

Filmography

Cinema

Television
  • 1996 – 1997L El Khottab Al Bab (Grooms on the Door) by Slaheddine Essid
  • 1998L Il tesoro di Damasco (The Treasure of Damas) by José María Sánchez
  • 2004L Loutil (The Hostel) by Slaheddine Essid
  • 2008L Weld Ettalyena (The Son of the Italian) by Nejib Belkadhi
  • 2015L Lilet Chak (The Doubt Night) by Majdi Smiri
  • 2016L The President by Jamil Najjar
  • 2018L Tej El Hadhra by Sami FehriL As General Osman
  • 2019L The Affair 460 by Majdi Smiri

Theater
  • 1995L The Women's School by Mohamed Kouka

Cinema

Television
  • 1999 – 2001: Chams Alik
  • 2002: Dima Labess
  • 2008: Weld Ettalyena
  • 2020: The Host and The Tramp

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

Honours
  • 2007: Knight of the Tunisian Order of Merit

References
  1. "Nejib Belkadhi". tunisia-live.net (in French). Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  2. "Cinéma – Nejib BelkadhiL « "Regarde-moi" est avant tout une ode à la différence »". LE Point Alfrique. December 6, 2018.
  3. "PARK CITY '07 INTERVIEW, Nejib Belkadhi". indiewire.com. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
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