Samuel Benchetrit

Born June 26, 1973· Champigny-sur-Marne, France

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Emerging from a multicultural Romani, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish background, he left formal schooling at fifteen to devote himself to photography, a decision that shaped his later artistic pursuits. Beginning as a writer and actor, Benchetrit directed his first short, “Nouvelle de la tour L,” in 2000 and soon moved to feature films with “Janis et John” (2003). Subsequent works such as “I Alway…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources