SÉLIM BENZEGHIA
Sélim Benzeghia is a French-Algerian documentary director, producer and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, New York, working across the US, France, Latin America and North Africa. A National Geographic Explorer and co-founder of Koudéta Films, he makes films and impact campaigns with broadcasters, NGOs and global partners.
Recent Works
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A Slide and Barbed Wire
50 min | Nova Production, France TV, LCP | 2024
Two families are arrested and detained in a French immigration detention center, where children face prison-like conditions. Through their voices—and those of the staff—the film exposes a hidden reality: nearly 37,000 children have been held in detention in France over the past decade.
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Silent Murder
Feature Documentary | Koudéta Films, CNC Diversity Fund | In Development
In 1973, a wave of racist murders swept through France’s Algerian immigrant communities. Fifty years later, survivors and families break their silence, revisiting streets, memories, and wounds long buried. Silent Murder is a journey through forgotten violence, state indifference, and the birth of the first Arab civil rights movement in France.
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