Chergui Kharroubi
- Director
- Writer
Algerian director living in Brussels, Chergui Kharroubi was born in
1953 in Hamr el-Ain, a small village 70 kilometers West of Algiers. The
son of a a baker, young Chergui studied in his village first, then in
the Blida high school. He later studied sociology at the Algiers
College of Human Sciences before going to Belgium where he attended
Institut des Arts de Diffusion, the film school of Brussels. He soon
became a respected documentary maker, working mainly for the Belgian
national channel RTBF, but occasionally going freelance. Among his most
successful documentaries, let's mention "Sauve qui peut la nuit", a
striking night chronicle of the life and death of old age patients in a
Belgian hospital, "A nos amours", dealing with the tricky subject of
the disabled's right to sex life and "Itinéraires Masarat" examining
the Palestinian issue.In 2009 he succeeded
William Klein when he was
entrusted with the making (four decades after the master) of a
documentary on the second Algiers Panafrican Festival. He is also the
author of a TV film
Les Fripiat (1987), but
generally prefers reality to fiction.