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Filmmaker · Syria

Borhane Alaouié

Died in 2021

Borhane Alaouié was born in 1941 in Arnoun, in southern Lebanon; his father, a gendarme, moved the family from posting to posting as far as Beirut. An assistant cameraman at Lebanese television, he studied political science, travelled in Africa, then left Lebanon after June 1967 and graduated in 1973 from the INSAS in Brussels. He made about ten fiction films and documentaries, on the civil war, exile and memory, and settled in Belgium in his last years. He died in Brussels in September 2021, aged eighty.

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