Directing
Community Rating
6.9
TMDB estimate
Born
January 1, 1949 (age 77)
Born in
Algeria
Karim Traïdia (in Arabic: كريم ترايديا) born in 1949 in Besbes in Algeria is an Algerian-Dutch director and screenwriter. He has worked in the Netherlands since 1980. He studied sociology in Paris and cinema at the NFTVA, the Dutch Film Academy of Amsterdam, from which he graduated. His graduation film Impotence won several awards in Europe. He directed several short films before signing his first feature film, The Polish Bride, in 1998, presented at the "Critics' Week" at the Cannes Film Festival the same year and he won the Golden Calf for Best Director in other prestigious awards. Truth Tellers, his second feature film, also won numerous awards. Chroniques de mon village (Chronicles of My Village), in 2016, is his third feature film.

Irkalla – Gilgamesh's Dream
as Writer
2025

The Gandhi Murder
as Director
2019

Chronicles of my Village
as Writer, Director
2016

De Avondboot
as Director
2007

Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten
as Karim Boutella
2005

Island Guests
as Director
2005

Speakers of the Truth
as Writer, Director
2000

The Polish Bride
as Director
1998
Marrakech
as Rachid Ouaridia
1996

Baantjer
as Alheib Mahfouz
1995