# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehdi-charef
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:46:12.492Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehdi-charef"
name: "Mehdi Charef"
slug: "mehdi-charef"
description: "Mehdi Charef is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film Le thé au harem d'Archimède was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. Seven years later, his film Au pays des Juliets competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1992 festival. He won the César Award for Best First Film for Tea in the Harem."
tagline: "French film director (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mehdicharef.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.6
  momentum:             26.29331046312178
  historical:           9.235424
  currentAttention:     9.72
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/theofficial.mehdi/"
    handle:    "theofficial.mehdi"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152831/"
    handle:    "nm0152831"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "ميهدى تشاريف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Charef"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1372360"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91758"
    title: "Mehdi Charef"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump