About
Gatlif was born in Algiers to a Kabyle father and a Romani mother. After his childhood there, Gatlif arrived in France in 1960 following the Algerian War of Independence. Gatlif struggled for years to break into the film industry, playing in several theatrical productions until directing his first film, La Tête en ruine, in 1975. He followed it with the 1979 La Terre au ventre, a story of the Algerian War of Independence.
Filmography
Ange2025 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Original Music Composer
Tom Medina2021 · Director, Writer, Original Music Composer, Producer
Journey from Greece2017 · Director, Writer
Geronimo2014 · Director, Writer
The Outraged2012 · Director, Executive Producer
Time for Outrage!2012 · Director
Freedom2009 · Director, Producer, Writer
Transylvania2006 · Director, Writer, Music
Exiles2004 · Screenplay, Director, Producer, Music
Visions of Europe2004 · Director, Writer
Swing2002 · Writer, Director, Producer, Music, Original Music Composer
Like An Airplane2002 · Associate Producer
I Come2000 · Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
Children of the Stork1999 · Original Music Composer, Director, Writer
The Crazy Stranger1998 · Original Music Composer, Director, Screenplay
Mondo1995 · Director, Writer
Lucumi, l'enfant rumbeiro de Cuba1995 · Director
Safe Journey1993 · Director, Writer
Gaspard and Robinson1990 · Director, Writer
Pleure Pas My Love1989 · Director