Ismaël Ferroukhi
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Ismaël Ferroukhi (born 1962) is a French-Moroccan film director.
Ferroukhi was born in Kenitra. He gained exposure with his 1992 short film L'Exposé, which won the Kodak Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Following, Ferroukhi co-wrote the Cédric Kahn film Trop de Bonheur (1994).
His directorial debut Le Grand Voyage, produced by Humbert Balsan and Ognon Pictures, won the Lion of the Future "Luigi De Laurentiis" Award for a First Feature Film at the 61st Venice Film Festival in 2004.
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- Lion of the Future for Ismaël Ferroukhi by Fabien Lemercier, http://www.euromedcafe.org, September 21, 2004, retrieved April 4, 2006
- BBC World Service profile from 2005