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Filmmaker · Algeria

Amar Laskri

Died in 2015

Amar Laskri was born on 22 January 1942 in Aïn Berda, near Annaba. A pupil at the Saint-Augustin lycée, he took part in the students' strike of May 1956 and joined wilaya II at the age of fifteen. After independence, a Yugoslav scholarship took him to the Belgrade academy, where he studied theatre, radio, television and cinema from 1962 to 1966. Back in Algeria, he made short films and then war films for the public office. He headed the Algerian Centre for Cinematographic Art and Industry from 1996 to 1998, the year of its dissolution, then chaired the association Lumières, and died in Algiers on 1 May 2015.

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