Baya Kasmi

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 César award. The duo reformed to write La vie très privée 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 être une pute, nominated for a César in 2012 for Best Short Film, which revealed Vimala Pons alongside Bruno Podalydès. The young actress went on to play the lead role in Je suis à 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 Médecin de campagne), and it was not until early 2023 that her second feature was released: Youssef Salem a du succès, starring Ramzy Bedia.

Works

Not All Men, But...

Simone is an undercover cop who has infiltrated a feminist group. She suspects the activists of being accomplices in the murder of a violent husband. As she gets to know them, Simone opens up to feminist ideas to the point of questioning her conservative values. But her cover is fragile and soon the group suspects her. To deflect attention and get out of this mess, Simone panics and randomly accuses Paul, a man she’d just met at the park, of raping her. Paul, a failed actor who lives in his wife's shadow, is the sweetest and most harmless of men. Simone, devastated by what she has done, tries to make amends, but it's too late: the accusation becomes public and Paul a target of the collective.

Release Date:2025-04-16

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Mikado

Mikado and Laetitia lead an alternative lifestyle aboard a van with their homeschooled children Nuage and Zephir. One day, their van breaks down, forcing them to lead a somewhat 'normal' life over summer.

Release Date:2025-02-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

6.1

Dog on Trial

April, an idealistic lawyer dedicated to lost causes, agrees to defend Cosmos, a dog that has bitten three people, leading to the first canine trial. She has no choice but to win the case, as otherwise, her unusual client will be put down.

Release Date:2024-09-11

Department:Writing

Job:Script Consultant

Vote Count:34

Bambino

Lost in the middle of the countryside at the wheel of her old Kangoo, Siham is desperate to find that "bloody party". In the back seat, Marguerite and Arthur, aged 15 and 8 respectively, are determined to put her through hell. In this rolling crisis cell, tension builds to a crescendo. Elsewhere, in a gymnasium transformed into a meeting room, a mysterious gathering is taking place.

Release Date:2023-11-11

Character:Cathy

4.9

Le premier venu

Release Date:2023-04-30

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Sara

Vote Count:7

6.6

The In(famous) Youssef Salem

Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to miss his writing career. But the trouble begins when his new novel becomes a success because Youssef couldn't help but be inspired by his own, for better or worse. He must now avoid at all costs that his book falls into the hands of his family.

Release Date:2023-01-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:96

5.5

Not My Type

Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon. When Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in his thirties, to release their album. But Anthony never liked his distant relative, let alone her music. Their two worlds clash between good and bad taste, sophistication and rudeness, sincerity and lies. Unless love gets in the way...

Release Date:2022-06-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Mme Pietri

Vote Count:46

Je t'aime, filme-moi !

This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.

Release Date:2022-06-15

6.0

Quand les bourgeois font leur cinéma

Release Date:2022-04-04

Character:Self - Réalisatrice

Vote Count:1

Le Grand Bazar
5.5

Le Grand Bazar

Release Date:2019-06-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:2

5.9

Battle of the Classes

As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old son, only have friends like him at Bagnolet's school? And when his friends all leave for a private school in Paris, his parents are frightened. From now on, Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only what?

Release Date:2019-04-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Character:Mlle Delamarre

Vote Count:294

5.5

Father & Sons

Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...

Release Date:2019-02-13

Character:Agathe

Vote Count:108

4.2

Savage

It's summer, somewhere in the Dordogne, young people disappear. The wildest rumors circulate, we are talking about a feline prowling. Laura, seeks to elucidate the mystery and meets Paul, a strange writer who attracts him as much as he scares her. As they get closer, a lover spurned by Laura disappears in turn.

Release Date:2019-01-23

Character:Christine, the mother

Vote Count:88

4.7

Sextape

In the absence of her sister Rim, what was Yasmina doing in a car park with their boyfriends Salim and Majid? Rim knows nothing about it, but that's because Yasmina is doing her utmost to prevent her from finding out. What was it, then? The unmentionable... the worst thing ever... supersize shame - and it was all captured by Salim in a potentially highly volatile video...

Release Date:2018-06-20

Character:La Tante

Vote Count:34

6.4

Just to Be Sure

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.

Release Date:2017-09-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:200

6.1

La Fine Équipe

Omen is an unconditional fan of Stan, a black female singer of devastating rap. He is no doubt one of the last fans, given how the group she sings in is tanking! The day he accidentally crosses paths with his idol, Omen offers to be her "multi-purpose handyman driver." Against her group's advice, Stan takes this little white guy on board. It's true he often seems half-asleep, bordering on a total screw-up, and she seems to be the only one to glimpse his (well hidden) talents.

Release Date:2016-11-30

Character:Dom

Vote Count:16

6.3

The Country Doctor

All the people in this countryside area, can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who auscultates them, heals and reassures them day and night, 7 days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to assist him. But will she adapt to this new life and be able to replace the man that believed to be irreplaceable?

Release Date:2016-03-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:228

6.0

The Very Private Life of Mister Sim

Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has left him, his job has left him, and when goes to see his father in a remote part of Italy, not even Dad has the time to have lunch with him. He then receives an unexpected offer: to travel through France selling toothbrushes that will "revolutionize oral-dental hygiene." He takes advantage of the job to catch up with people from his childhood, to meet the first big love of his life, along with his daughter, and to make amazing discoveries and, in so doing, rediscover himself.

Release Date:2015-12-16

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:95

5.4

I'm All Yours

Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!

Release Date:2015-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:68

6.5

Hippocrates

Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.

Release Date:2014-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Vote Count:479

5.3

I Could've Been a Hooker

Mina has a panic attack at the checkout of a DIY shop and falls into Pierre's arms. This is the story of a slightly mad girl, a guy who's too normal, a big pair of pruning shears and an old piano teacher.

Release Date:2011-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

7.3

The Names of Love

Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.

Release Date:2010-11-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:309

Histoires de vies

Histoires de vies

Release Date:2010-07-04

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Episode Count:12

Le parfum du bonheur

Le parfum du bonheur

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

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