Farouk Beloufa (Ùۧ۱ÙÙ ŰšÙÙÙŰ©), born in 1947 in Oued Fodda in Algeria, is an Algerian film critic and director. He is the father of the Franco-Algerian filmmaker and visual artist NeĂŻl Beloufa. Farouk Beloufa studied cinema at INC, this Algerian film school that quickly disappeared, before graduating from IDHEC in Paris. He also took courses at the Ăcole Pratique des Hautes Ătudes in Paris, under the direction of Roland Barthes, and presented a thesis on film theory. Upon hisâŠ
