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Amid Chakir

Amid Chakir, actor and stage director, trained at the Conservatoire of Brussels and then at INSAS, from which he graduated in 1979. As early as 1973, he began his career on stage, performing in Tom Stoppard's Les Acrobates at the Rideau de Bruxelles and in Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot lunaire, directed by Paul Paquay at the Atelier Sainte-Anne. For nine years, he led a theatre education programme within the Regroupement Démocratique Marocain. Driven by a desire for openness and confrontation, he founded Théâtre Brut with young Brussels-based talents, aiming to put an end to immigration being "a spectacle for others" and to help "escape the cultural desert in which North African immigration struggles." He also ran numerous workshops, including at Studio Parallax, with immigrant associations, and for La Nuit des contes at the Beursschouwburg in 1995. With Théâtre Océan Nord, he co-directed, alongside Isabelle Pousseur, a theatre workshop for teenagers on several occasions from 1997 onwards. Among his many stage productions are Et si ma mère savait écrire by Tahar Ben Jelloun at Théâtre Séquelle, co-produced with Ensemble Théâtral Mobile in 1981, Tamara… un conte suspect in 1983 as part of Théâtre Brut, Ankabout based on Shakespeare's Hotello in 1986, also for Théâtre Brut, Château after Kafka, created at the Avignon Theatre in 1988 from his own text Souvenirs blancs, as well as Mohamed, prends ta valise by Kateb Yacine at ULB. Alongside his work in theatre and film, he started teaching at INSAS in 1991. In cinema, he performed under the direction of Chantal Akerman (Hôtel des Acacias), Marc Didden (Brussels by Night in 1983 and Istanbul in 1984), Dominique Deruddere (Crazy Love in 1987), and Kamal Dehan (Les Suspects in 2003), and also appeared in various short films and television movies.