Lyes Salem

Lyès Salem (Arabic: إلياس سالم) (born 1966 in Algiers) is an Algerian actor and film director.

His first film as director, Masquerades, won several prizes in France.

Filmography

As director Lhasa (short, 1999) Cousines (short, awards at the Festival de Clermont-Ferrand and César Awards) Jean-Farès (short, awarded at the Festival international du film de Marrakech 2001) Mascarades (first feature film)

As actor

L’Ecole de la Chair (1998) American Cuisine (1998) - Karim Rendezvous in Samarkand (1999) - Mohammed Meet the Baltringues (2000) Filles uniques (2003) - L'avocat jeune beur À ton image (2004) - Antoine Banlieue 13 (2004) - Samy Alex (2005) - Karim Munich (2005) - Arab Guard #1 Délice Paloma (2007) - Maître Djaffar The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008) - Le type saoul qui veut du Abba Mascarades (2008) - Mounir Mekbel La tête en friche (2010) - Youssef - le serveur Des filles en noir (2010) - Le docteur Dernier étage gauche gauche (2010) - Hamza Barriba Nobody Else But You (2011) - Gus Rock the Casbah (2013) - Youssef L'Oranais (2014) - Djaffar I'm Dead But I Have Friends (2015) - Dany Je suis à vous tout de suite (2015) - Le douanier algérien Carole Matthieu (2016) - Alain Ôtez-moi d'un doute (2017) - Madjid Sparring (2017) - Omar Ramdam (2017) - Amine La finale (2018) - Hicham Soualem Le mystère Henri Pick (2019) - Producteur émission Infinitif Abou Leila (2019) Honey Cigar (2020) For My Country (2022) - Colonel Mohamedi A Gentleman in Moscow (2024) - Andrey Duras