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name: "Abdellatif Kechiche"
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fi1m_id: "abdellatif-kechiche"
imdb_id: "nm0444244"
tmdb_id: 17458
wikidata_id: "Q307996"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "7 December 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T23:52:38.961475+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Abdellatif Kechiche

## Identity

Abdellatif Kechiche

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/abdellatif-kechiche
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** abdellatif-kechiche
- **IMDb ID:** nm0444244
- **TMDB ID:** 17458
- **Wikidata ID:** Q307996
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdellatif_Kechiche, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q307996, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444244/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17458

Producer and director. Born 7 December 1960 in Tunis, Tunisia.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 7 December 1960, Tunis, Tunisia
- **Also known as:** 압델라티프 케시시, 阿布戴·柯西胥
- **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdellatif_Kechiche, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q307996, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444244/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17458

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Blue Is the Warmest Color*](https://film.one/film/blue-is-the-warmest-color.md) (82)

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## Fi1m on Abdellatif Kechiche

> Abdellatif Kechiche makes ordinary meals and hesitant conversations worth our time. We value the closeness he achieves with his actors, though his insistence on lingering over bodies can make otherwise attentive work feel impersonal.

School, meals and the uncertainty on a young woman’s face occupy Kechiche in *Blue Is the Warmest Colour* (2013). We recommend this three-hour romance because those ordinary stretches let us get to know Adèle without pretending that every feeling can be explained. There is room for growing up to be awkward and unfinished. Much of the length is justified by that care.

His directing began with *La Faute à Voltaire* (2000), followed by the breakthrough *Games of Love and Chance* (2003), set on a Parisian housing estate. *The Secret of the Grain* (2007) centres on a Maghrebian family in Sète. Meals and conversations recur in films concerned with immigrant communities and working-class life in France. His long takes and work with young or non-professional actors help explain the sense that an exchange has been allowed to develop without anyone hurrying it towards the next scene.

In *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*, Adèle Exarchopoulos gives that patience a purpose, playing a high-school student drawn to Léa Seydoux’s older Emma. Exarchopoulos allows uncertainty to remain visible without offering a tidy explanation for it. We felt painfully protective of Adèle because her expression in close-up makes an ordinary exchange seem capable of hurting her. The screenplay, written with Ghalya Lacroix, helps by leaving her feelings unsettled rather than supplying a reason for each one.

The extended sex scenes are where Kechiche’s judgement falters. They tell us less about these women than their length promises, and we begin noticing the arrangement of bodies instead of the people we have come to care about. Neither actress can entirely rescue staging that grows impersonal. This is a substantial flaw in a romance we recommend, especially because the school and meal scenes have already shown how well Kechiche can make attraction part of ordinary life.

His later trilogy began with *Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno* (2017). Some critics have found the depiction of female bodies in *Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo* (2019) objectifying.

## Biography

Abdellatif Kechiche is a Tunisian-French filmmaker and former actor. Born on 7 December 1960 in Tunis, he moved to Nice, France, at the age of six. He trained in drama at the Antibes Conservatory and began his career as an actor in theatre and film before directing his first feature, *Poetical Refugee* (2001).

Kechiche is known for films including *Games of Love and Chance* (2003), *The Secret of the Grain* (2007) and *Blue Is the Warmest Colour* (2013), on which he also served as screenwriter and producer. The latter won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, shared with its lead actresses. His work frequently explores immigrant communities and working-class life in France.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Blue Is the Warmest Color* (2013), Fi1m 82, Director, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/blue-is-the-warmest-color.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due* (2025), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo* (2019), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno* (2018), Producer, Director, Screenplay
- *Blue Is the Warmest Color* (2013), Screenplay, Producer, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/blue-is-the-warmest-color.md)
- *Black Venus* (2010), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Sueur* (2008), Director, Writer
- *The Secret of the Grain* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Sorry, Haters* (2005), as Ashade
- *Games of Love and Chance* (2003), Director, Writer
- *The Magic Box* (2003), as Raouf
- *Poetical Refugee* (2001), Director, Writer
- *The Secret of Polichinelle* (1997), as Raymond
- *Marteau Rouge* (1996), as Rachid
- *A Vampire in Paradise* (1992), as Blondin
- *Bezness* (1992), as Roufa
- *The Innocents* (1987), as Saïd
- *Mutisme* (1987), Actor
- *Mint Tea* (1984), as Hamou

## Gallery

- ![Abdellatif Kechiche](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-dc1c62c4d483.jpg) Abdellatif Kechiche — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Abdellatif_Kechiche_Cannes_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![L'équipe du film Mektoub my love au festival du film de Cabourg (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-e48d8355510d.jpg) L'équipe du film Mektoub my love au festival du film de Cabourg (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Cabourg_2018_6.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![L'équipe du film Mektoub my love au festival du film de Cabourg (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-2d91adc75f86.jpg) L'équipe du film Mektoub my love au festival du film de Cabourg (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Cabourg_2018_9.jpg/1280px-Cabourg_2018_9.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Abdellatif Kechiche](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-13f05df1109a.jpg) Abdellatif Kechiche — Image via TMDB
- ![Abdellatif Kechiche](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-9f5ae1a9fb23.jpg) Abdellatif Kechiche — Image via TMDB
- ![Abdellatif Kechiche](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-277704d744db.jpg) Abdellatif Kechiche — Image via TMDB
- ![Abdellatif Kechiche](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-ba6294a4fa4c.jpg) Abdellatif Kechiche — Image via TMDB
- ![Abdellatif Kechiche](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-0be18a667314.jpg) Abdellatif Kechiche — Image via TMDB
- ![Abdellatif Kechiche](https://film.one/media/person/120605/gallery-ea845fcc2849.jpg) Abdellatif Kechiche — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### BAFTA Film Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2014: Best Film Not in the English Language (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*

### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won

- 2013: Palme d'Or (won), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*

### Other awards — 12 won, 10 nominated

- César Award for Best Adaptation 2014: César Award for Best Adaptation (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- César Award for Best Director 2014: César Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- César Award for Best Film 2014: César Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- David di Donatello for Best European Film 2014: David di Donatello for Best European Film (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- Goya Award for Best European Film 2014: Goya Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- Independent Spirit Awards 2014: Best Foreign Film (won), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- Polish Academy Award for Best European Film 2014: Polish Academy Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- European Film Award for Best Director 2013: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2013: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- Louis Delluc Prize 2013: Louis Delluc Prize (won), for *Blue Is the Warmest Colour*
- Independent Spirit Awards 2009: Best Foreign Film (nominated), for *The Secret of the Grain*
- César Award for Best Director 2008: César Award for Best Director (won), for *The Secret of the Grain*
- César Award for Best Film 2008: César Award for Best Film (won), for *The Secret of the Grain*
- César Award for Best Original Screenplay 2008: César Award for Best Original Screenplay (won), for *The Secret of the Grain*
- Charlemagne Medal for European Media 2008: Charlemagne Medal for European Media (won)
- David di Donatello for Best European Film 2008: David di Donatello for Best European Film (nominated), for *The Secret of the Grain*
- European Film Academy Critics Award 2008: European Film Academy Critics Award (won), for *The Secret of the Grain*
- Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 2007: Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (won), for *The Secret of the Grain*
- Louis Delluc Prize 2007: Louis Delluc Prize (won), for *The Secret of the Grain*
- César Award for Best Director 2005: César Award for Best Director (won), for *Games of Love and Chance*
- César Award for Best Film 2005: César Award for Best Film (won), for *Games of Love and Chance*
- César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation 2005: César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation (won), for *Games of Love and Chance*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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