Mohamed Meziane Yala

El Kseur, Algeria

Mohamed Meziane Yala, commonly known as Meziane Yala, was born in 1946 in El Kseur, in the wilaya of Bejaïa. After studying cinema in Lodz, Poland, he became an intern in the Rai television studios in Italy, before embarking on a rich and exciting career entirely dedicated to directing. From 1971, he worked at the Algerian Center for Industry and Cinema (CAIC), and directed several documentary films, notably revolving around the struggle of the Algerian people for their independence.

In 1983, he directed his first feature-length fiction film entitled "Chants d'Automne", and describes an impossible love story between a settler's daughter and an Algerian agricultural worker, with Cheikh Noureddine, André Thorrent, Abdelmadjid Fares, Laurence Jeanneret , Mohamed Sirat, Nadia Masmoudi…etc

He died at Nefissa Hamoud hospital in Hussein-Dey on August 8, 2020, at the age of 74, the victim of a heart attack. Meziane Yala was buried in the Sidi Yahia cemetery in Algiers.