Safy Nebbou | |
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 Safy Nebbou at the 2015 Cabourg Film Festival | |
| Born | 27 April 1968 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Relatives | Mehdi Nebbou (brother), Allan Nebbou (brother), Sammy Nebbou (brother), Karim Nebbou (brother) |
Safy Nebbou (born 27 April 1968) is a French actor and director.[1][2][3]
Nebbou was born on 27 April 1968 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France to a German mother and an Algerian father.[1] He is the brother of actor Mehdi Nebbou.
He started his career as a stage director at the Théâtre des Chimères in Bayonne, where Tsilla Chelton was one of his mentors, and worked as an actor.[1] Subsequently, he directed short films, commercials for France Télécom, Orange and Renault, and feature films.[1]
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Screenwriter | Actor | |||
| 1997 | Pédagogie | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
| 1999 | Le Sourire du clown | Yes | |||
| 2001 | Bertzea | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
| 2003 | Lepokoa | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
| 2004 | The Giraffe's Neck | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cairo Film Festival - Naguib Mahfouz Award for Best Debut |
| 2006 | Une naissance | Yes | Short film | ||
| 2007 | Childhoods | Yes | Segment "L'Enfance d'Ingmar Bergman" | ||
| 2008 | Mark of an Angel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cairo Film Festival - Best Screenplay Cairo Film Festival - Best Second Work |
| 2010 | Dumas | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2012 | Comme un homme | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2016 | In the Forests of Siberia | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2019 | Who You Think I Am | Yes | Yes | ||
