Nabil Ben Yadir
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Nabil Ben Yadir | |
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.jpg) Ben Yadir at the 2021 Film Fest Ghent | |
| Born | 24 February 1979 Brussels, Belgium |
| Occupation(s) | Director, screenwriter, producer |
| Years active | 2001–present |
Nabil Ben Yadir (born 24 February 1979) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and producer.
Ben Yadir made his feature-length directorial debut in 2009 with The Barons, which he also co-wrote with Laurent Brandenbourger and Sébastien Fernandez. The film was nominated for six Magritte Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay.[1] His second feature, The Marchers, was screened in Official Competition at Cannes. Filming for a political thriller, Blind Spot (Dode Hoek), set against Belgium's Flemish-French divide, began in the spring of 2014.[2]
Before becoming a filmmaker, Ben Yadir worked on an assembly line for Volkswagen. He spent "months on end doing exactly the same thing". This influenced his choice to select a different genre for each of his films: "now I make sure that I always take new challenges and adopt new approaches".[2] Ben Yadir has a film production company called L'Antilope Joyeuse.[2] His next film, Animals (2021), was based on the 2012 murder of gay man Ihsane Jarfi.[3]
