ARMAND AMAR

Jury Feature films

Born in Jerusalem in 1953, Armand Amar spends his childhood in Morocco of which he is native.
Self-taught, he fast searches for non European musics and discovers instruments as the zarb and the conga drums.
Further to his meeting with the South African choreographer Peter Goss, he discovers that what he looks for is a direct relationship with music,with improvisation.
This brings him to work with choreographers of contemporary dance.

He creates in 1994 the label " Long Distance " with his friend Alain Weber.
Since then, Armand composed the music of four movies of Costa-Gavras: "Amen" ( 2000 ), "The Chopper" ( 2005 ), "the Eden on the West" (2009) and "The Capita"l ( 2012 ). Two movies of Rachid Bouchareb: "Natives" ( 2006 ) and "Outlaw" ( 2010 ). And two movies of Radu Mihaileanu: "Vas, vis et devient" (2005) and "The concert" (2009)
He was recompensed for it by the César of the Best Film Music.