Post-beur Cinema: North African Émigré and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France since 2000

Since the early 1980s, filmmakers of Maghrebi origin have made a key contribution to the representation of issues such as immigration, integration and national identity in French cinema. However, they have done so mostly from a position on the margins of the industry. In contrast, since the early 2000s, Maghrebi-French and North African émigré filmmakers have occupied an increasingly prominent position in on both sides of the camera, announcing their presence on French screens in a wider ra...