Rabah Nait Oufella
Acting
Biography
Rabah Nait Oufella (born December 3, 1992) is a French actor of Algerian descent. He earned attention for his debut performance in Laurent Cantet’s The Class in 2008, Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He then went on to act in Girlhood by Céline Sciamma, and Nocturama by Bertrand Bonello. In 2016, he gave a striking performance in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, selected at Critics’ Week and winner of the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize.
Born: December 3, 1992
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
About Last Night...
Each episode features different groups of friends telling each other about their latest crazy antics. This is a tribute to people who sacrifice their dignity to have good anecdotes to tell their mates.
Unsubmissives
Early 1990’s, south of France. Katy, Hélène, Laurence and Carole have been best friends since childhood. Now in their twenties, they find themselves struggling with hardship and limited opportunities in their sunny small hometown. Despite their challenging circumstances, they have maintained a resilient and cheerful spirit, supporting each other throughout life’s ups and downs. But their lives take a dramatic turn when Hélène, a single mother of three, receives a sudden notification that her welfare checks have been reduced, threatening her ability to support her family.Overwhelmed by this injustice and feeling powerless in the face of societal inequalities, the five women are driven by a fierce desire to change the course of their lives. They make the shocking decision to rob a bank, and soon, commit a series of increasingly daring heists.
Patients
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.
Frotter, frotter
3 women who have nothing in common and yet will unite around a chambermaids’ strike, doomed from the start, but which will change their lives. Solange, the Malian governess & mother of a family, Fanny, the down-and-out bourgeois woman at the end of her rope, Michèle, the loud-mouthed queer activist.
Raw
In Justine's family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she's a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
The Class
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
A Real Life
Isabelle teaches, Bruno steals. Together, they start believing that could be happy. The day when the police net starts tightening, Bruno fleesm taking Isabelle with him. Deep within the forest, they hide and love each other, outside of time, in a final attempt to hold at bay the world's violence.
The Climb
A true story of Samy, native of La Courneuve, who is out of love for Nadia, decides to climb Mount Everest.
The Brigade
Saïd leads a team of young elite cops and will have to find his place within his group while preventing a gang war from breaking out between Eric's family and that of the El Hassani brothers.
Girlhood
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
Filmography
as Karim
as Nordine Ek Kader
as Julien El-Kabetz
as Badri
as Karim
as Achille
as Omar (uncredited)
as Sofiane
as Nassim
as Jonathan
as Adrien
as Eddy
as Saïd, friend of Samy's
as Omar
as Rudy
as Kader
as Rabah
as Ali
as Rabah, student