Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, the first Arab and African director to win Cannes Palme d’Or, dies aged 91

Algerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, whose 1975 drama Chronique des Années de Braise (Chronicles of the Years of Fire) won Cannes’ Palme d’Or in 1975, has died aged 91.  

He was the oldest living recipient of the Palme d’Or and Chronicles of the Years of Fire remains Africa’s only Palme d’Or to this day.