Reda Kateb, guest of honor at the next Montpellier Mediterranean Cinema Festival!

Le comédien Reda Kateb viendra présenter son premier long métrage en tant que réalisateur ! Yann Rabanier

The 46th edition of the Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival (Cinemed), which will take place from October 18 to 26, 2024, is starting to make headlines. And it is doing so in the most beautiful way: the revelation of Reda Kateb, the immense actor revealed by A Prophet, as guest of honor!

He is considered the most elegant, the most thoroughbred French actor of the present time. Discovered on the big screen in A Prophet by Jacques Audiard in 2009, and awarded a César for Hippocrate by Thomas Litli in 2015, Reda Kateb will be the guest of honor at the 46th edition of the International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema (Cinemed) which will take place from October 18 to 26, 2024 in Montpellier.

"He’is a particularly endearing actor with discreet charm ; a deep and soft voice, recognizable among all; a thin, elegant mustache à la Clark Gable; a presence which imposes itself with naturalness and subtlety in French and international cinema", put forward the organizers of Cinemed to justify their choice to invite him to look back on his impressive career as a film director. rsquo;actor and premiere his very first feature film as director, On a Wire.

Very early taste for words

Born on January 15, 1977 in Ivry to a mother of Czech and Italian origin and an Algerian father, the actor Malek Kateb, he developed a taste for words with his great-uncle, the man of letters Kateb Yacine. Very quickly, he took to the stage and played classics and contemporary pieces without distinction. After a stint in the series Engrenages in 2008, Jacques Audiard noticed him and therefore hired him for his prison masterpiece which would turn his life upside down at the same time as that of another gifted beginner like him Tahar Rahim.