Biography: Ghaouti Bendedouche (often written Ghaouti Bendeddouche), born in Tlemcen in 1936, is an Algerian director and screenwriter. He studies cinema at IDHEC in Paris. Upon his return to Algeria, he worked as an assistant director on feature films (for Badie, Costa-Gavras and Mazif) and for ten years as a director of documentary films. He then directed an episode "La Mer" of the collective film "L'Enfer à Dix Ans" (1968). Then the feature films: "Echebka" (1976), "Morte La Longue Nuit" (co-directed with Mohamed Slim Riad, 1979), "Moissons d'Acier" (1982), "Hassan Niya" (1989), "La Neighbor” (Al Jara) (2002).