Karim Bensalah

Born in Algiers to an Algerian father and a Brazilian mother Karim Bensalah moved to Paris at the age of 18 to study literature philosophy and social sciences after growing up in Haiti and Senegal Questions of the construction of identity are naturally at the core of his work He then entered the London Film School where he directed Constant Flow Back in Paris he worked as a director scriptwriter and actor His short films Le secret de Fatima Racines and Les Heures blanches were screened and won prizes at a number of festivals including Premiers Plans For a period he joined the Tribudom Collective which works with teenagers in workingclass neighbourhoods in Paris and its suburbs where he made several short films including Chantiers At the same time he was selected by Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab to develop his first feature film A screenwriter and consultant on other projects Karim Bensalah has also been working in image education for over fifteen years in France and Brazil Six pieds sur terre is his first feature film the script of which was read at the Premiers Plans Festival in 2022