Mabrouk El Mechri | |
---|---|
Born | |
Years active | 1998–present |
Children | 2 |
Mabrouk el Mechri (born 18 September 1976) is a French director, screenwriter, and actor.
El Mechri was born in Versailles near Paris, France. He has directed a number of films. After his three shorts Mounir et Anita, Generation Cutter, and Concours de circonstance, he directed his first long feature Virgil in 2005 about the life of a boxer, followed by a comedy entitled Stand Up!. His 2008 movie entitled JCVD about Jean-Claude Van Damme and featuring him as the actor garnered Mabrouk El Mechri critical acclaim. The film, a comedy drama and at certain times biographical of Van Damme was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, 2008 Rome Film Festival (L'Altro Cinema), and the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival (Midnight Madness).
He is now working on his new movie Sage femme (2008) featuring Vanessa Paradis. He was married to actress Audrey Dana, with whom he had a child in 2008. Until 2014 he was in a relationship with Virginie Efira with whom he had a child, Ali born on 24 May 2013 in Paris. [1]
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme, is a Belgian actor, martial artist, filmmaker, and fight choreographer. Credited with helping popularize martial arts in film, Van Damme is widely regarded as one of the most iconic martial arts action stars of all time.
Mohamed Mounir is an Egyptian singer and actor, with a musical career spanning more than four decades. He incorporates various genres into his music, including classical Egyptian music, Nubian music, blues, jazz and reggae. His lyrics are noted both for their philosophical content and for their passionate social and political commentary. He is affectionately known by his fans as "El King" in reference to his album and play "El Malek Howwa El Malek". Mounir's family is from Nubia, Southern Aswan, Egypt.
Jamel Debbouze is a French-Moroccan actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer and director. Best known for his stand-up comedy sketches, he also worked with director Alain Chabat in several films and other notable French humourists such as Florence Foresti, Fred Testot and Gad Elmaleh. He has starred in a number of box-office successes, including Amélie, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, Hollywoo and HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami. He is the founder of the Canal+ television show Jamel Comedy Club.
Freida Lee Mock is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, director, screenwriter and producer. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with Terry Sanders. Her documentary, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1995.
Virginie Efira is a Belgian and French naturalized actress and television presenter.
Fernando León de Aranoa is a Spanish screenwriter and film director.
Tomer Sisley is an Israeli and French actor and comedian.
The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This 33rd annual festival was from September 4 to September 13, 2008. The opening night gala was the World War I romantic epic Passchendaele from Canadian director Paul Gross.
CINEMANIA Film Festival is a French-language film festival with English subtitles that takes place in Montreal. It is the most important event fully dedicated to francophone cinema in North-America.
Virgil is a 2005 comedy drama film written and directed by French-Tunisian director Mabrouk El Mechri, his first feature film. It had its first public screening in movie theaters starting September 2005. The film is about the life of a French boxer in the French suburbs.
Roschdy Zem is a French actor and filmmaker of Moroccan descent. He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in the film Days of Glory at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Jacques Martineau is a French film director and screenwriter who works in collaboration with partner Olivier Ducastel.
Georges Khabbaz is a Lebanese actor, writer, director, comedian, musician, playwright, producer and theater professor.
Michael Hamish Budd is an Australian film actor, director and producer. Budd is best known for playing Esmael, alongside Henry Cavill and Sigourney Weaver in The Cold Light of Day. The film also starred Bruce Willis.
The Barons is a 2009 Belgian comedy film directed by Nabil Ben Yadir. It was written by Yadir, Laurent Brandenbourger and Sébastien Fernandez. It premiered on 2 September 2009 at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur. The film was nominated for six Magritte Awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for Jan Decleir.
JCVD is a 2008 Belgian crime drama film directed by French Tunisian film director Mabrouk el Mechri, and starring Jean-Claude van Damme as a semi-fictionalized version of himself, a down and out action star whose family and career are crumbling around him as he is caught in the middle of a post office heist in his hometown of Brussels, Belgium.
Rebecca Zlotowski is a French film director and screenwriter.
Caprice is a 2015 French romantic comedy film written and directed by Emmanuel Mouret, and starring Mouret, Virginie Efira, Anaïs Demoustier and Laurent Stocker. Set in Paris, it follows the misadventures of a young teacher who is in love with a famous stage actress but is himself adored by a vivacious aspirant actress. It won the award for Best Film at the 2015 Cabourg Film Festival.
Black Water is an American action thriller film directed by Pasha Patriki. It stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren in their fifth collaboration, specifically the second time they appear as on-screen allies. The film was released direct-to-video in the US on May 25, 2018.
Other People's Children is a 2022 French drama film directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, starring Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni and Callie Ferreira-Goncalves. The tragic comedy tells the story of a middle-aged teacher who starts a new relationship. This creates a close bond with the little daughter of her partner.