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name: "Faouzi Bensaïdi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/faouzi-bensaidi"
fi1m_id: "faouzi-bensaidi"
imdb_id: "nm0072364"
tmdb_id: 1012123
wikidata_id: "Q3739450"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 March 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T23:28:22.954563+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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# Faouzi Bensaïdi

## Identity

Faouzi Bensaïdi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/faouzi-bensaidi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** faouzi-bensaidi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0072364
- **TMDB ID:** 1012123
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3739450
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faouzi_Bensa%C3%AFdi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3739450, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072364/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1012123

Actor. Born 14 March 1967 in Meknès, Morocco.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 March 1967, Meknès, Morocco
- **Also known as:** فوزي بن السعيدي
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faouzi_Bensa%C3%AFdi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3739450, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072364/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1012123

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dheepan*](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md) (68)

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## 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.

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dheepan* (2015), Fi1m 68, as Monsieur Habib — [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?* (2024), Director
- *My Dad is not Dead* (2023), Actor
- *Deserts* (2023), as L'épicier · Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *Interactions - When Cinema Looks to Nature* (2022), Director, Script
- *Summer Days* (2022), as Kamal · Screenplay, Director, Editor
- *It Must Be Heaven* (2019), as Man Running From Police
- *A Sunny Day* (2019), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Interdependence* (2019), Writer, Editor, Director
- *Sofia* (2018), as Faouzi
- *The Blessed* (2017), as Amine
- *Lola Pater* (2017), as Le sheikh
- *Volubilis* (2017), as Si Mohamed · Director, Producer, Writer
- *Dheepan* (2015), as Monsieur Habib — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)
- *Saint Laurent* (2014), as Butler
- *Short Plays* (2014), Director
- *Death for Sale* (2013), as Inspector debbaz · Writer, Director
- *Goodbye Morocco* (2013), as Ali
- *WWW: What a Wonderful World* (2006), as Kamel · Director, Writer
- *A Thousand Months* (2003), as Samir · Director, Screenplay
- *Wind Horse* (2002), as Driss
- *Far Away* (2001), Writer
- *Braids* (2000), Actor
- *The Rain Line* (2000), Director
- *The wall* (2000), Writer, Director
- *The Cliff* (1999), Director
- *Mektoub* (1997), as Kamal Raoui · Writer
- *Jeudi moins le quart*, Actor
- *Histoire d'amour en dix chansons, trois mariages et un baiser*, Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Presentazione del film DEATH FOR SALE di Faouzi Bensaidi, alla presenza del regista, dell’Ambasciatore del Marocco S.E. Mr. Hassan Abouyoub e dell'assessore del (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/4169073/gallery-b50879a3700e.jpg) Presentazione del film DEATH FOR SALE di Faouzi Bensaidi, alla presenza del regista, dell’Ambasciatore del Marocco S.E. Mr. Hassan Abouyoub e dell'assessore del (2013) — Vito Pietri, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Death_For_Sale_di_Faouzi_Bensaidi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Faouzi Bensaïd au festival de Namur, octobre 2006](https://film.one/media/person/4169073/gallery-a44b86f7dc2a.jpg) Faouzi Bensaïd au festival de Namur, octobre 2006 — Olivier Barlet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Faouzi_Bensa%C3%AFdi.jpg/1280px-Faouzi_Bensa%C3%AFdi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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