Biography
Faouzi Bensaïdi is a Moroccan film director, screenwriter and actor. Born on 14 March 1967 in Meknès, he trained as an actor at the Institut d'art dramatique et d'animation culturelle in Rabat and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris.
He began directing short films in the late 1990s, including La Falaise (1999). His feature directorial debut was Mille mois (A Thousand Months, 2003), followed by WWW: What a Wonderful World (2006), Mort à vendre (Death for Sale, 2011), Volubilis (2017) and Déserts (2023). He has also acted in films such as Dheepan (2015), in which he played Monsieur Habib.
