Nicolas Boukhrief (born 4 June 1963) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor.[1][2]
Nicolas Boukhrief | |
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 Portrait of Nicolas Boukhrief in 2016 | |
| Born | 4 June 1963 Antibes, France |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Boukhrief started his career as a journalist. In 1990 he created the Newspaper of the cinema on Canal+, and was the writer in chief until 1993, when he became the adviser on programming cinema. Since January 1997, he has been a programmer and presenter of My film club on Canal+. Along with Richard Grandpierre he was co-person in charge for Canal Plus Ecriture, and since 1997, of the department of Eskwad production within that chain. He was Andrzej Żuławski's assistant from 1985 to 1987. Thereafter he was a co-scenario writer of Jean-Jacques Zilbermann's film Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents, and of Assassin(s), directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Screenwriter | |||
| 1993 | Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents | Yes | Also as actor (uncredited) | |
| 1995 | Va mourire | Yes | Yes | Also as actor |
| 1997 | Assassin(s) | Yes | Also as actor (Mehdi's brother) | |
| 1998 | Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences) | Yes | Yes | |
| 2004 | Cash Truck | Yes | Yes | Also as casting director |
| 2006 | Silent Hill | Yes | Also as consulting producer | |
| 2008 | Cortex | Yes | Yes | |
| 2010 | Gardiens de l'ordre | Yes | Yes | |
| 2010 | L'Italien | Yes | ||
| 2010 | In Gold We Trust | Yes | ||
| 2013 | Valentino | Yes | ||
| 2015 | Made in France | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | La Confession | Yes | Yes | |
| 2017 | A Bright Blue Sky | Yes | Yes | TV film |
| 2019 | Three Days and a Life | Yes | Yes | |
| 2021 | Delicious | Yes | ||
| 2021 | Wrath of Man | Yes | ||