{{short description|Algerian film-maker and actor|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Mohamed Chouikh | image = Mohamed Chouikh 2005.jpg | birth_date = 3 September 1943 | birth_place = Mostaganem, Algeria | citizenship = Algerian | occupation = Film director<br>Screenwriter<br>Actor | notable_works = The Citadel<br>The Ark of the Desert<br>Youcef }}
'''Mohamed Chouikh''' (born 1943) is an Algerian film-maker and actor.<ref name="Armes2008">{{cite book|last=Armes|first=Roy|title=Dictionary of African filmmakers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88sTRTl6yKwC&pg=PA139|accessdate=14 July 2011|date=June 2008|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-35116-6|page=139}}</ref><ref name="Armes2005">{{cite book|last=Armes|first=Roy|title=Postcolonial images: studies in North African film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4w4cP9Mu0lgC&pg=PA218|accessdate=14 July 2011|year=2005|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-34444-1|page=218}}</ref>
== Biography == Mohamed Chouikh was born at Mostaganem, Algeria on 3 September 1943, where he was to become a stage actor with a troupe which later developed into the Algerian National Theatre. In 1965, he acted in one of Algeria's greatest film productions, ''L'Aube des damnés'' by René Vautier and Ahmed Rachedi. In 1966 he took the role of Lakhdar (the son) in Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina's highly successful ''Le vent des Aurès''. In 1972 he directed ''L'Embouchure'' for Algerian TV, followed in 1974 by ''Les Paumés'' (1974). In 1982 he made his first feature-length film, ''Rupture'', and has pursued a writer-director career since then.
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Film !Genre !Role |- |1965 |L'Obstacle<ref>{{Citation |last=Bouamari |first=Mohamed |title=L'Obstacle |date=1965-01-01 |type=Short, Comedy, Romance |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31227448/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_2_cdt_img_8 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Mohamed Chouikh, Ahmed Benmensour, Anissa Mezaguer |publisher=Office des Actualities Algerienes}}</ref> |Drama |Actor |- |1966 |Rih al awras<ref>{{Citation |last=Lakhdar-Hamina |first=Mohammed |title=Rih al awras |date=1968-11-06 |type=Drama, War |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170758/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_2_cdt_img_7 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Keltoum, Mohamed Chouikh, Omar Tayare |publisher=Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)}}</ref> |Drama |Actor |- |1969 |Les hors-la-loi<ref>{{Citation |last=Fares |first=Tewfik |title=Les hors-la-loi |date=1976-12-29 |type=Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378060/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_2_cdt_img_6 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Sid Ahmed Agoumi, Cheikh Nourredine, Mohamed Chouikh |publisher=Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)}}</ref> |Drama |Actor |- |1970 |Élise ou la vraie vie<ref>{{Citation |last=Drach |first=Michel |title=Élise ou la vraie vie |date=1970-11-25 |type=Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066618/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_2_cdt_img_5 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Marie-José Nat, Mohamed Chouikh, Bernadette Lafont |publisher=Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC), Port Royal Films}}</ref> |Drama |Actor |- |1972 |L'embouchure<ref>{{Citation |last=Chouikh |first=Mohamed |title=L'embouchure |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145764/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_img_8 |access-date=2025-08-31 |publisher=R.T.A.}}</ref> |TV Movie |Director |- |1974 |Les paumés<ref>{{Citation |last=Chouikh |first=Mohamed |title=Les paumés |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145960/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_img_7 |access-date=2025-08-31}}</ref> |TV Movie |Director |- |1976 |Les nomades |Drama |Actor |- |1979 |Mais où et donc Ornicar<ref>{{Citation |last=Effenterre |first=Bertrand Van |title=Mais où et donc Ornicar |date=1979-02-28 |type=Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077893/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_2_cdt_img_3 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Geraldine Chaplin, Brigitte Fossey, Jean-François Stévenin |publisher=Mallia Films}}</ref> |Drama |Actor |- |1982 |''Rupture'' (al-Inquita – Breakdown)<ref>{{Citation |last=Chouikh |first=Mohamed |title=Rupture |type=Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146255/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_img_6 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Allel Bachali, Abdelkader Belmokadem, Charef Daouadji |publisher=Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)}}</ref> |Drama |Director Writer |- |1984 |Maquam Echahid<ref>{{Citation |last=Chouikh |first=Mohamed |title=Maquam Echahid |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145897/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_img_5 |access-date=2025-08-31}}</ref> |Drama |Director |- |1988 |''La Citadelle'' (al-Qala – The Citadel)<ref>{{Citation |last=Chouikh |first=Mohamed |title=El kalaa |type=Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122125/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_img_4 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Djillali Ain-Tedeles, Yamina Bachir, Mohamed Baki}}</ref> |Drama |Director Writer |- |1994 |''Youcef: La légende du septième dormant'' (Youcef kesat dekra sabera – Youcef: The Legend of the Seventh Sleeper)<ref>{{Citation |last=Chouikh |first=Mohamed |title=Youcef |date=1994-03-23 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108632/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_img_3 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Mohamed Ali Allalou, Youcef Benadouda, Mohamed Benguettaf |publisher=ENPA}}</ref> |Drama |Director Writer |- |1997 |''L'Arche du désert'' (The Desert Ark)<ref>{{Citation |last=Chouikh |first=Mohamed |title=L'arche du désert |date=1998-01-28 |type=Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122956/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_img_2 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Hacen Abdou, Messaouda Adami, Shyraz Aliane |publisher=Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication}}</ref> |Drama |Director Writer |- |1999 |Monnette<ref>{{Citation |last=Hélia |first=Marie |title=Monette |type=Short |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478001/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_2_cdt_img_2 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Catherine Rouvel, Mohamed Chouikh}}</ref> |Short film |Actor |- |2003 |Raqsat errihu<ref>{{Citation |last=Louhichi |first=Taieb |title=Raqsat errihu |type=Adventure, Drama, Fantasy |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381121/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_2_cdt_img_1 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Hatem Berrabeh, Haifa Bouzouita, Mohamed Chouikh |publisher=Tanit Productions, Thoke Moebius Film Company}}</ref> |Adventure Drama
Fantasy |Actor |- |2005 |Douar de femmes (Douar al-nisaa – Hamlet of Women)<ref>{{Citation |last=Chouikh |first=Mohamed |title=Douar de femmes |date=2005-11-17 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853101/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_img_1 |access-date=2025-08-31 |others=Sofia Nouacer, Khaled Benaïssa, Bahia Rachedi |publisher=Acima Films}}</ref> |Drama |Director |- |2014 |''L'Andalou'' (Al Andalousee) | | |}
== Awards and nominations == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Film !Festival !Award !Results |- |1988 |The Citadel |Amiens International Film Festival |Golden Unicorn Award for Best Film |{{won}} |- |1989 |The Citadel |Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival |Golden Dolphin Award |{{won}} |- |1990 |The Citadel |Fribourg International Film Festival |Trigon Film Award |{{won}} |- |1993 |Youcef |Amiens International Film Festival |Prize of the City of Amiens |{{won}} |- |1997 |The Ark of the Desert |Locarno Film Festival |Golden Leopard Award |{{nom}} |- |1997 |The Ark of the Desert |Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film |Special Mention |{{won}} |- |1997 |The Ark of the Desert |Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film |Golden Bayard award for Best Film (Meilleur Film Francophone) |{{nom}} |- |1998 |The Ark of the Desert |Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival |Golden Dolphin Award |{{nom}} |- |1999 |The Ark of the Desert |Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival |Jury Special Prize |{{won}} |- |1999 |The Ark of the Desert |Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival |OAU Award |{{won}} |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * Guy Austin, "Mohamed Chouikh: From Anticolonial Commemoration to a Cinema of Contestation" in: Josef Gugler (ed.), ''Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique'', Indiana University Press, 2015, {{ISBN|978-0-253-01644-7}}, pp. 166–187
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