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Baya Kasmi

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🎂 January 1, 1978 · 48📍 Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France

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Born in Toulouse in 1978, Baya Kasmi began working with Michel Leclerc on a TV series about adolescence, Âge sensible (2002), before the screenplay for Le Nom des gens (2010), which is said to have been inspired by an autobiographical story, won a CĂ©sar award. The duo reformed to write La vie trĂšs privĂ©e de Monsieur Slim (2015) and La lutte des classes (2018). As a director, she first established herself successfully in a short format with J'aurais pu ĂȘtre une pute, nominated for a CĂ©sar in 2012 for Best Short Film, which revealed Vimala Pons alongside Bruno PodalydĂšs. The young actress went on to play the lead role in Je suis Ă  vous tout de suite (2015), the director's first feature film. 


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Born in Toulouse in 1978, Baya Kasmi began working with Michel Leclerc on a TV series about adolescence, Âge sensible (2002), before the screenplay for Le Nom des gens (2010), which is said to have been inspired by an autobiographical story, won a CĂ©sar award. The duo reformed to write La vie trĂšs privĂ©e de Monsieur Slim (2015) and La lutte des classes (2018). As a director, she first established herself successfully in a short format with J'aurais pu ĂȘtre une pute, nominated for a CĂ©sar in 2012 for Best Short Film, which revealed Vimala Pons alongside Bruno PodalydĂšs. The young actress went on to play the lead role in Je suis Ă  vous tout de suite (2015), the director's first feature film. She then went on to work as a scriptwriter (for example, with Thomas Lilti on Hippocrate and MĂ©decin de campagne), and it was not until early 2023 that her second feature was released: Youssef Salem a du succĂšs, starring Ramzy Bedia.

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