ABEL JAFRI

Jury Short films

Abel Jafri is born in 1965 of a Tunisian mother and a Tuareg father, in Tunisian Sahara. He grows up in France and spends his adolescence in Aubervilliers.
At the age of 9, he realizes that he is going to have to enter very early the world of work. Working on markets during the day, he practises theater when he can.
He studies theater of improvisation and enters the studio Pygmalion, then the Actor's Studio in New York.

Having played in several plays and in some television films, it will be Claude Sautet who will offer him his first leading part in cinema. He played in 3 Zéros, The passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson, The last Scrubland, The song of Chuck …