Armand Amar (born 1953) is a French composer, who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2008 César Award for Best Music for Le Concert (Radu Mihăileanu).
Life and career
Armand Amar is a French composer living in Paris. In 1968, he began playing the congas. He also practiced the tabla and the zarb in the following years.
In 1976 he met South African choreographer Peter Goss, who introduced him to dance. In the subsequent years, he worked with a number of choreographers in contemporary dance.
His works are focused particularly on Eastern music. He is the author of several ballets and soundtracks films such as The Trail, Days of Glory, Live and Become, The First Cry, Earth from Above, Bab'Aziz and Home. Since Amen., he has also collaborated with Costa-Gavras scoring all of his subsequent films.
He founded the label Long Distance in 1994 with his partners Alain Weber and Peter Gabriel.
Compositions
Films
2002: Amen. by Costa-Gavras
2004: Earth from Above by Renaud Delourme
2004: Tabous (Zohre & Manouchehr) by Mitra Farahani
2005: Live and Become by Radu Mihăileanu
2005: The Axe by Costa-Gavras
2006: La Piste by Éric Valli
2006: Bab'Aziz by Nacer Khémir
2006: Days of Glory by Rachid Bouchareb
2006: Blame It on Fidel by Julie Gavras
2007: Cartouches gauloises by Mehdi Charef
2007: The Colonel by Laurent Herbiet
2007: The First Cry by Gilles de Maistre
2007: Comme ton père by Marco Carmel
2008: La Jeune Fille et les Loups by Gilles Legrand
2008: Sagan by Diane Kurys
2009: Welcome by Philippe Lioret
2009: Eden Is West by Costa-Gavras
2009: Moi, Van Gogh by Peter Knapp and François Bertrand
2009: Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
2009: Le Concert by Radu Mihăileanu
2009: London River de Rachid Bouchareb
2010: Comme les cinq doigts de la main by Alexandre Arcady
2010: Ao, le dernier Néandertal by Jacques Malaterre
2010: Hors la loi by Rachid Bouchareb
2011: You Will Be My Son by Gilles Legrand
2011: Les Hommes libres by Ismaël Ferroukhi
2011: The Source by Radu Mihăileanu
2012: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit by Alexandre Arcady
2012: Capital by Costa-Gavras
2012: Mon bel oranger by Marcos Bernstein
2012: Planète Océan by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot
2012: Amazonia Eterna by Belisario Franca
2013: For a Woman by Diane Kurys
2013: Belle and Sebastian by Nicolas Vanier
2013: A Thousand Times Good Night by Erik Poppe
2014: Red Line by Andrea Kalinl
2014: The Nightingale by Philippe Muyl
2014: 24 jours by Alexandre Arcady
2014: Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy by Stéphanie Valloatto
2015: L'Odeur de la mandarine by Gilles Legrand
2015: Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues by Christian Dugay
2015: Human by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
2015: Lake Como by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
2016: The History of Love by Radu Mihăileanu
2017: L'école buissonnière by Nicolas Vanier
2018: Mia and the White Lion by Gilles de Maistre
Television
1997: Miracle in the Eldorado (Philippe Niang) 2006: Earth from Above (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) 2007: Marie Humbert, the secret of a parent (Marc Angelo) 2009: Great Reporters (Gilles de Maistre) 2009: London River (Rachid Bouchareb) 2010: Marion Mazzano (Marc Angelo) 2011: Voir le pays du matin calme (Gilles de Maistre) 2013: Crime d'état (Pierre Aknine) 2014: Ce soir je vais tuer l'assassin de mon fils (Pierre Aknine) 2014: Jusqu'au dernier (François Velle) 2015: No Second Chance (François Velle)