Ben Youcef

His favorite foreign language films of all time are: Bicycle Thieves (1948), La Strada (1954), 8½ (1963), The Battle of Algiers (1966), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Life Is Beautiful (1997), Amores Perros (2000), Amélie (2001), City of God (2002), The Best of Youth (2003), The Sea Inside (I) (2004), Downfall (2004), The Lives of Others (2006), Babel (2006), The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), A Prophet (2009).

My objective as an actor is to bring a new understanding of the Middle Eastern culture to the rest of the world. My life integrates the Islamic spirit with modern energy. I still retain an almost naive way of seeing the world that comes from a truthful place of a kid that was me.