The Algerian director and producer Mohammed Lahdar Haminam mward Arab and African filmmaker who was awarded at the Cannes Festival died yesterday at the age of 95, his family said.

Lachdar Hamina left his last breath at his home in Algiers, as his children announced.

Was one of the few African and Arab directors with Four entries at the Cannes Film Festivalwinning two major awards: the one for the best film by the first -time director for the ‘Le Vent des Aurès’ (1967) and the golden palm tree for “The years of fire” (Chronique des Années de Braise) in 1975.

Winners of Gold Phoenix, from the left, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Laurent Cantet, Cristian Mungiu, Roman Polanski, Jane Campion and David Lynch, posing for photographers on their arrival at 70th anniversary of the Film Festival in Kanya, in the Cannes Festival, Tuesday, May 23, 2017

He was the oldest living winner of the golden palm tree. At the Cannes Film Film Festival, he was given a tribute to the screening of a digitally restored 4K of the film “The Years of Fire” as part of the program ‘Cannes Classic’. This film essentially established the self -taught filmmaker as a world -class director. The film “The Years of Fire” presents the struggle for Algeria’s independence through the eyes of a peasant.

Born on February 26, 1934 at Unmistak of northeast Algeria, the Mohammed Lahdar Hamina He was a child of a rural family. After graduating from an Agricultural School, he studied in Antim, France. There he met his wife, with whom he had four sons.

In the Algerian war, his father was abducted, tortured and murdered by the French army. THE Mohammed Lahdar Hamina He was called upon to serve in 1958 and joined the Algerian Resistance in Tunis.