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Yamina Benguigui

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Filmmaker

The Resume

    (April 9, 1957- )
    Born in Lille, France
    Films include 'Memoires d'immigres, l'heritage maghrebin' and 'Le paradis, c'est complet!'
    Minister Delegate for Francophony, attached to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Personal Representative of the President of the French Republic to the International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF)

Why she might be annoying:

    She had a Twitter account.
    Her lips look artificial.
    The reasons behind her family's move from Algeria to France in the early 1950s remained a secret.
    She refused to speak to her father for years because he opposed her film career.

Why she might not be annoying:

    At 13, she decided to become a movie maker.
    Raised in Islam, she wed a Jewish 'Pied-Noir.'
    Her films unabashedly tackle the female immigrant experience in France.
    She was cited as one of Prime Minister Francoise Hollande's chicest Cabinet Ministers.

Credit: Black Chic


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 64.29% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 46 Votes: 80.43% Annoying