Mohamed Nadir Azizi

Mohamed Nadir Azizi (born 1 January 1941 in Miliana, Algeria) is an Algerian film director and documentary filmmaker. He directed documentaries produced by ONCIC in the 1970s, as well as at least one notable feature film, L'Olivier de Boulhilet.

Themes and style His documentaries from the 1970s show an interest in landscapes (e.g. Atlas), historical processes and symbolic figures (e.g. Hommage à l'Émir Abd El-Kader). His films combine a descriptive documentary approach with social and symbolic concerns in fiction, as shown in L'Olivier de Boulhilet, an allegory about modernisation and the rupture between tradition and progress.

Filmography 1972: Pour que vive l'Algérie! (Long Live Algeria!) — collective documentary film (segment produced for ONCIC) 1973: L'Homme de l'Atlas (The Man from the Atlas) — documentary 1973: Signe évocateur (Evocative Sign) — short documentary 1978: L'olivier de Boulhilet — feature film, screenplay by Khaled Benmiloud based on a radio story 1984: Hommage à l'Émir Abd el-Kader — documentary/historical film L'Expression, article 'Azzeddine Medjoubi à l'affiche' (5 December 2023) — mention of a free screening of Mohamed Nadir Azizi's film L'Olivier de Boulhilet at the Algerian Cultural Centre in Paris.