release date November 01 2023
Karim Bensalah’s SIX FEET OVER to world premiere at CineMed - Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival
Karim Bensalah’s Algerian-French drama SIX FEET OVER will be holding its world premiere as part of the Feature Film Competition at the 45th Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (CineMed), which will take place from October 20th to October 28th.
The film is set to hold two screenings at the Pasteur Room of the Corum, with the first being on Tuesday, October 24th at 8:30 pm — with director Karim Bensalah in attendance — while the film’s second screening will take place on Friday, October 27th at 2 pm.
SIX FEET OVER follows Sofiane — the son of a former Algerian diplomat — who has lived his entire life to this point abroad. Now a student in Lyon, he is the victim of an administrative decision and is living under the threat of expulsion.
In the hope of legalizing his situation, he decides to work temporarily for Muslim undertakers. Lost in his identity and feeling bad about himself, rubbing shoulders with the dead will take him to a brighter path.
Directed and co-written by Karim Bensalah, the film stars Hamza Meziani, Kader Affak, Souad Arsane, and Mostefa Djadjam, Jamal Belmahi co-wrote the film with Karim Bensalah while Pierre-Hubert Martin lensed it and Bénédicte Cazauran edited it.
SIX FEET OVER was produced by Oualid Baha (Tact Production) and co-produced by Eugénie Michel Villette (Les Films du Bilboquet), with music by Adrien Casalis and sound by Romain Cadilhac, Benjamin Rosier, Valère Raigneau, and Xavier Thieulin. MAD Solutions handles the film’s distribution in the Arab world while The Party Film Sales handles worldwide distribution.
Karim Bensalah was born in Algiers to an Algerian father and a Brazilian mother. After living in Haiti and Senegal, he moved to Paris at the age of 18 to study literature, philosophy, and social sciences. Karim then entered the London Film School, where he directed CONSTANT FLOW.
His first short film, LE SECRET DE FATIMA was selected and awarded at numerous festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand and broadcast on Arte.
Bensalah then directed RACINE(S) — a segment of the feature film PARIS LA MÉTISSE — before joining the Collectif Tribudom, which works with teenagers in the working-class districts of Paris and its suburbs, with whom he made several short films, the latest of which is CHANTIER(S).
After that, he worked on the short LES HEURES BLANCHES, in which he collaborated with Quebecois screenwriter Sébastien Baril.
He is currently developing two feature films, one of which has been selected at Sundance Screenwriter's and Director's Lab.
A screenwriter and consultant on other projects, Karim also pursues a career as an actor. He has also worked in image education for over ten years in France and Brazil.
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