Nabil Ben Yadir is a

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actor, film director, and screenwriter.

Career

Ben Yadir made his feature-length directorial debut in 2009 with ''

The Barons ''The Barons'' (french: Les 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 Franco ...

'', which he also co-wrote with

Laurent Brandenbourger Laurent Brandenbourger is a Belgian screenwriter and film director. In 2009, he co-wrote with Nabil Ben Yadir and Sébastien Fernandez the comedy film ''The Barons'', for which he received a nomination for the Magritte Award for Best Screenplay. R ...

and Sébastien Fernandez. The film was nominated for six

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, including Best Director and Best Screenplay. His second feature, ''

The Marchers ''The Marchers'' (french: La Marche) is a 2013 French comedy-drama film by Nabil Ben Yadir. It is loosely based on the events surrounding the 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism. The film's release in November 2013 coincided with the 30th ...

'', was screened in Official Competition at

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. Filming for a political thriller, '' Blind Spot'' (''Dode Hoek''), set against Belgium's Flemish-French divide, is scheduled to commence in the Spring of 2014. Before becoming a filmmaker, Ben Yadir worked on an

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for

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. He spent "months on end doing exactly the same thing". This influenced his choice to select a different

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for each of his films: "now I make sure that I always take new challenges and adopt new approaches". Ben Yadir has a film production company called L'Antilope Joyeuse.

Filmography

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