The Acrobats

Acrobates Films  is a French production company based in Paris since 2002. Involved in Art House films, international coproductions and documentaries. We develop and produce films whose authors bring a contemporary and singular vision of the world, whatever the subject or origin. We are committed to the international visibility of the films we produce. This choice is reflected in co-productions with many countries including Italy, Germany, Vietnam, the Netherlands, Singapore, Lebanon, Burkina Faso, Venezuela, Indonesia ... and selections and awards in major international festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Venice, San Sebastian, Toronto. In its 20 years of existence, Acrobates Films has produced ten feature films and over thirty documentaries and essays. Acrobates Films is a member of the SPI Association.

Claire Lajoumard

After mastery of Modern Letters in cinema, at the University of Paris III, Claire Lajoumard has worked at CNC, and then at different production studios, among them Les Films de la Lune Vague.

From 1996 to 2000, she was associated to Paraiso Production, where she collaborated on films as a production director, associated producer, and executive producer (3 features, 15 short films).

She then worked as production director and executive producer at Key Light Productions (2 features, 1 short film).

In 2002 she founded Acrobates Films.

Parallel to this, since 2010, she has worked as an expert for the Produire au Sud workshops (3 Continents Festival Nantes) as well as for other workshops on international co-production (EAVE Ties That Bind, SEAFIC).

In charge of courses from 2016-2019 at the Polytechnics University of Hauts-de-France, Master 2 MCAV.
Graduate of EAVE 2000.

Pham Ngoc Lan

Phạm Ngọc Lân was born in 1986 in Hanoï, Vietnam. He studied urban planning and design from 2004 to 2009 at the Hanoi University of Architecture.

He worked as an urban designer at the Institute of Urban Planning and Rural Design (IPURD) in Hanoi until 2010. Then he became a photographer and exhibited several series of photos in Taiwan, the United States, Japan and Vietnam. In 2011, he studied video art at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi and participated in the Hanoi DOCLAB.

He directed a short documentary film “The Story of Ones” which was screened in numerous festivals and museums of Modern Art, including Visions du Réel (Switzerland), Rencontres Internationales du Nouveau Cinéma and Art Contemporain (France). In 2012, he is in Residence in Hokkaido (Japan) where he organizes his first photographic and video installation.

In 2015, he participated in the Short Film Station at Berlinale Talent.

His short film Blessed Landreceived numerous awards around the world.

Currently, Pham Ngoc Lan is working on his first feature film: Culi never Cries.

  • Culi never Cries (Cu Li Không Bao Giờ Khóc)
    Feature film project co-written with Nghiêm Quỳnh Trang.
    Selected at L’Atelier – Cannes Film Festival 2017 / Busan Project Market 2016 / SEAFIC script Lab / Open Doors Locarno 2019: ArteKino award, Sorfond award.
  • Blessed Land (Một Khu Đất Tốt) Fiction – 19’ – 2019.
    International Competition – 69th Berlinale
    Special Mention of the Jury in Clermont-Ferrand – 2020.
    Bezst Film Award at the Vienna Short Film Festival
    Grand Prix at Uppsala – Suède
    Best Short Film Award – 48th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Canada)
    Grand Prix at Taïwan
    Best Sound at SeaShorts Film Festival – Malaysia
    Special Mention of the Jury in Las Palmas – Canary Islands.
    Selected in 13 international festivals.
  • Another City (Thành Phố Khác) – 25’ – 2016
    Selected in International Competition – 66th Berlinale
    Broadcasting ZDF-Arte
    Selected by 24 festivals including: Milan, Uppsala, Chicago, Palm Springs, Lisbon, Sao Paulo.
  • The Story of Ones (Chuyện Mọi Nhà) Documentary – 10’ – 2011
    Sélected by 13 festivals including :
    Visions du Réel – Nyon (Switzerland) – 2012
    CPH-DOX – Copenhague – 2012
    International Meetings of Cinema and Contemporary Art – Paris – 2012
    Doclab Films Project – Tokyo – 2013
  • Self Portrait and Life as an Opera – 2011
    Screening at the Goethe Institute de Hanoi – 2011

Tumpal Tampubolon

Tumpal Tampubolon is an Indonesian scriptwriter and director.

He first studied mathematics before devoting himself to cinema after graduating.

In 2007 he participated in the Asian Young Filmmakers in Jeonju, South Korea. He directed Drum Lesson during this period.

He directed Mamalia in 2010, one of the short films for Belkibolang Omnibus Film. Belkibolang was selected in Rotterdam, Hong-Kong, Jeonju and in Udine Far East Film Festival.

In 2014 he won the Citra Award for Best Original Screenplay for Tabula Rasa, one of Indonesia’s most prestigious awards.

In 2021 his short film The Sea Calls for Me won the Best Short Film Award at the Busan Film Festival.

Tumpal Tampubolon is currently developing his first feature film:Crocodile Tears.

  • Crocodile Tears – feature film– in development
  • The Sea Calls for Me – short film – 2020
    Best Short Film Award – Busan – 2021
  • 212 Warrior – feature film / Writer – 2018
    Fox International Productions and LifeLike Pictures
  • Tabula Rasa – Feature film / Writer – 2014
    Best original screenplay – Citra Award
  • Rocket Rain – Feature film / Writer – 2013
    Best Non-Cinema Film at the Apresiasi Film Festival of Indonesia
    Best director at the Apresiasi Film Festival of Indonesia
    Geber Award for the Best film at the Jogja-Netpac Festival
    International Film Festival of Karlovivary
  • Soleram – short film / Director – 2011.
  • Mamalia – Belkibolang Omnibus Film / Director – 2010
    International Film Festival of Rotterdam
    International Film Festival of Hong-Kong
    International Film Festival of Jeonju
    Udine Far East Film Festival
  • Drum Lesson – short film / Director – 2008
  • The Last Believer– short film / Director – 2006
    Best fiction short film at the International Film Festival of Jakarta

Andrew Sala

Andrew Sala was born in 1981. He graduated with honors in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and then studied directing at the Universidad del Cine where he now teaches.

His first film “Pantanal” (2014) premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival and was selected for the Stockholm Film Festival and the Mar del Plata Film Festival, among others.

He is the author and director of several short films selected in many international festivals, such as Murder in Junin (2012) which won the Best Fiction Award at the Tampere Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Poitiers Film Festival.

He is currently in post-production on his second feature film La Barbariewhich won the Cinema en Construction Prize in Toulouse.

He is part of the TIFF Filmaker Lab and the Carolina Foundation Alumni.

  • La Barbarie – 90’ – 2022
    Award for the Postproduction Cine en Construccion – Rencontres de Toulouse – 2021
    Filmaker Lab – Toronto International Film Festival – 2018
    EAVE Producers Workshop – 2017
    Workshop Produire au Sud – Festival des 3 Continents de Nantes – 2016
    Official Competition Script Competition – Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana
    XIII Iberoamerican Film Project Development Course – Madrid – 2015
    12th co-production meetings – 31st International Film Festival of Guadalajara, Mexico – 2016
    Cine Qua Non Lab – Mexique – 2015
  • Pantanal – 72’ – 2014
    Warsaw Film Festival
    Stockholm Film Festival
    International Film Festival of Mar del Plata – Argentina
    Montevideo International Film Festival – Uruguay
    Sao Paulo Latin American Film Festival – Brazil
  • Murder in Junin – 12’ – 2012
    Best Fiction at Tampere International Film Festival – Finland
    Special Jury Prize at the Rencontres Henri Langlois – International Film School Festival – Poitiers.
    FIPA Biarritz, Sao Paulo (Brazil), Bristol (UK), Lima (Peru), Casblanca (Morocco), La Pedrera (Uruguay), Reikareuna (Finland), Tambor (Croatia), Prague (Czech Republic), Krakow (Poland), Signes de Nuit (Paris), Havana (Cuba), Barcelona (Spain), Zagreb (Croatia)

Aamir Bashir

Aamir Bashir was born in 1970 in Srinaga, Kashmir, India. After having received a diploma in History, he studied law at the University of Delhi. He worked as a journalist and as an anchor on Television.

He moved to Bombay in 1998 and began a career in acting. He has acted in several independent films such as Ashwini Malik’s Clever & Lonely, Dev Benegal’s Split Wide Open, Sarthak Dasgupta’s The Great Indian Butterfly, Neeraj Pandey’s A Wednesday, Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui’s Peepli (Live)and Shivajee Chandrabhushan’s Frozen.

He directed HARUD (Autumn), his first feature film as writer, director and producer, in 2010. HARUD won the Don Quixote Award at the Freiburg International Film Festival in 2011 and the Best Film Award in Urdu in 2013.

As a director :

  • Harud – 96’ – 2010
    Don Quixote Award – Fribourg – 2011
    Regional Award for Best Urdu Film – National Film Awards – India – 2013
    Silver Lotus – National Film Awards – India – 2013
    Bombay International Film Festival – 2010
    Dubai International Film Festival – 2010
    Jeonju Film Festival – 2011
    Toronto International Film Festival – 2010
    London International Film Festival – 2010
    International Film Festival Rotterdam – 2010
    San Francisco International Film Festival – 2010
    Santiago International Film Festival – 2010
    Durban International Film Festival – 2010
    Goteborg International Film Festival – 2011
    Festival des 3 Continents of Nantes – 2016
    Asiatica Rome – 2012
    World Cinema Festival – Amsterdam
    Fukoaka Asian Film Festival

Pablo Fendrik

Pablo Fendrik was noticed in 2007 with the thriller The Assailant. Graduate of the Buenos Aires Center of Cinematographic Research, he invested himself in cinema at the frontier of genre and authorism.

Assistant director and then screenwriter, he was formed along with other filmmakers. He works with Alejandro Agresti on the staging of Le Vent en emporte autant and Une Nuit avec Sabrina, as well as with Jorge Gaggero and Sandra Gugliotta, for whom he wrote the screenplays for Vida en falcon and Las Vidas possibles respectively.

In 2009 he released his second feature film Blood Appears (La Sangre Brota). Again presented at Critic’s Week, this confirms the talent of Pablo Fendrik.

  • Blood Appears (La Sangre Brota) – 100’ – 2008
    Young Critics Award – Cannes Film Festival – 2008
    Zurich Film Festival – 2008
    Argentine Film Critics Association – 2010
    Academy of Pictorial Arts and Sciences of Argentina – 2009
  • The Assailant – 67′ – 2007
    Festival de Cannes – 2007
    Best film – Amiens (France) – 2007
    Best First Film – Academy of Pictorial Arts and Sciences of Argentina – 2009
    Best First Film – Argentine Film Critics Association – 2010
    Best Actor (Arturo Goetz) – International Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires – 2007
    Clarin Award – Clarin Entertainment Awards – 2009
    Best First Film (second prize) – Latin American Film Festival of Lima (Peru) – 2007
    Warsaw International Film Festival – 2007

K. Rajagopal

Born the 21st of September 1965 in Singapore, K. Rajagopal was a theatre comedian for about 15 years. He collaborated with well-known staging directors (William Teo, Kuo Pao Kun, Ong Ken Sen, Arifin Noer, and Krishen Jit). He appeared as King Lear in The King Lear Project shown at the Brussels and Singapore Art Festivals in 2008.

In the present day, he has directed numerous documentaries and short films for Asian television channels.

He won the Special Jury Prize in the Singapore International Film Festival three consecutive times with his
three first short films I Can’t Sleep Tonight (1995), The Glare(1996) and Absence (1997).

In 2010, the National Singapore Museum organized a retrospective of his films.

  • L’Oiseau d’Or – 112′ – 2016
    Semaine de la Critique – Festival de Cannes – 2016
  • The Flame – 15’ – 2015
  • Silent Screams – 2014
    Documentary
    In Competition – 19th Asian Television Awards
  • Varanasi / Jaipur (City Time Traveller) – 2014
    Documentary
    Special Mention for Best Documentary – 19th Asian Television Awards
  • Asia Exposed – 2011
    Documentary
    Channel News Asia
    New York Film Festival – Official Selection
  • Timeless – 18’ – 2010
    Grant of the Singapore Arts Museum
    Best photography
    Best editing – 2nd Short Film Festival of Singapore
    Selection at the 57th Oberhausen Festival
  • Asia at War – 2009
    Documentary
  • Tiny Toones – 2009
    Documentary
    15th Asian Television Awards
  • The New World – 13’ – 2008
    Grant of the Singapore Arts Museum
  • Lucky 7 – 2008
    Omnibus directed by 7 Singaporean directors
    Official Selection at the International Festival of Rotterdam – 2008
    Official Selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival – 2008
  • Brother – 15’ – 1997
    Grant of the Singapor Arts Festival in collaboration with Theatreworks
  • Absence – 18′ – 1997
    Special Jury Prize – Singapore International Festival – 1997
  • The Glare – 14′ – 1996
    Special Jury Prize – Singapore International Festival – 1996
  • I Can’t Sleep Tonight – 15’ – 1995
    Special Jury Prize – Singapore International Festival – 1995

Soudade Kaadan

Born in France in 1979, Soudade Kaadan studied Critical Theatre in Damascus, Syria, then Cinema at the Institute of Scenic, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies (ISACS) in Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon.

She has directed documentaries for UNDP, UNICEF and the channel Aljazeera.

Her first feature documentary, Looking For Pink won the Martine Filippi Discovery prize – Urti Documentary Grand Prize of author of Monte Carlo 2010.

Her short documentary Damascus Roof and Talesof Paradise was screened at the Dubai Film Festival.

  • The Day I Lost my Shadow – 94′ – 2018
    Special Jury Prize – Singapore International Festival – 1995
    Toronto TIFF Discovery
  • Obscure – 67′ – 2017
    DOX Festival 2017
    Awarded at Fribourg IFF
    Venice Final Cut workshop award
  • Damascus Roof and Tales of Paradise – 51’ – 2010
    Muhr Arab Documentary Award – Dubai International Festival – 2010
    Special Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Arts – TRT Documentary Awards – 2011
    Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Culture Award – PriMed – 2011
    Selected in more than 20 festivals including London LIDF, Edinburgh, Film Fra Sor, APSA, Cairo, Bilbao…
  • Looking for Pink – 75′ – 2009
    Martine Filippi Discovery Award – Monte Carlo Television Festival – 2010
    URTI International Grand Prize for Documentary Film – Monte Carlo Television Festival – 2010
  • Two Cities and a Prison – 39’ – 2008
    IFFR Rotterdam – 2012
    Arab Film Festival Berlin – 2010

Bui Thac Chuyen

Born in Hanoi in 1968, Bui Thac Chuyen studied directing at the Hanoï Academy of Theatre and Cinema. He started directing short films and TV series in 1991.

Also directing documentaries, he founded the Center for Assistance and Development for Cinema in 2002.

He supports and helps to produce numerous film projects by other directors and participates in the formation of the first cinema-specialized library in Vietnam.

  • Adrift (Choi Voi) – 110’ – 2009
    FIPRESCI Award – Venice – 2009
    NETPAC Award – Festival Cines del Sur de Granada – 2010
    Special Jury Prize – Festival Cines del Sur de Granada – 2010
    Festival des 3 Continents of Nantes – 2009
    Freiburg Festival – 2010
    International Film Festival of Cinemanila – 2009
    Bangkok International Film Festival – 2009
    Asian Film Awards – 2010
  • Living in Fear – 110’ – 2005
    New Talent Award – Shanghai Festival – 2006
    Grand Jury Prize – Asia-Pacific – 2006
  • Night race – 19’ – 2000
    Cinefondation – Cannes Film Festival – 2000
    Honorable Mention, best first film from the South – Namur Francophone Film Festival – 2000

Phan Dang Di

After studying at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Film, Phan Đăng Di began his career as a freelance filmmaker with the goal of training a team of young directors to create a “new wave” for Vietnamese cinema.

In 2008, his short film When I Am 20 became the first Vietnamese film to be selected in competition at the Venice International Film Festival.

His screenplay for the feature film Adrift (Bui Chuyên Thac, 2009) won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Screenwriter Award at the 2010 Asian Film Awards.

Bi, Don’t Be Afraid! (2010), the first feature film for which, in addition to being a writer and director, Di is also a producer, won two awards at the 2010 Cannes Critics’ Week, as well as awards in Hong Kong, Stockholm and Vancouver.

Di ‘ second film Mekong Stories (supported by the World Cinema Foundation and the Hubert Bals Fund) is selected in the official competition at the Berlin Festival.

Di also teaches screenwriting at Hanoi National University and is one of the co-founders of Autumn Meeting, an annual film event held in Vietnam.

  • Mekong Stories – 102’ – 2015
    Berlin Festival – 2015
    Youth Audience Award – Festival des 3 Continents de Nantes – 2015
    Hong Kong International Film Festival
    Five Flavours Asian Film Festival – 2015
  • Bi Don’t Be Afraid ! – 91′ – 2010
    SACD Prize – Cannes Festival – 2010
    ACID Award – Cannes Film Festival – 2010
    New Talent Award – Hong Kong International Film Festival – 2010
    Critics’ Week – Cannes Film Festival – 2010
    Fribourg International Film Festival – 2011
    Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival – 2011
    Lume International Film Festival – 2011
  • Adrift – 100’ – 2009 (screenwriter)
    FIPRESCI Award – Venice – 2009
    Alhambra Bronze Award – Festival Cines del Sur de Granada – 2010
    NETPAC Award – Festival Cines del Sur de Granada – 2010
    Asian Film Awards – 2010 (Best Screenplay Nomination)
    Bangkok International Film Festival – 2009
    International Film Festival of Cinemanila – 2009
    Festival des 3 Continents of Nantes – 2009

Christian Lajoumard

Christian Lajoumard was born in Marseille in 1960.

He moved to Paris in the early 1980s.

After studying cinema and theater, works in the distribution of Art & Essais films, the production of feature films and documentaries.

For the past twenty years he has been making short films and documentaries.

Non-exhaustive list:

  • Africa, Collected – 64’ – 2017
  • Fragile Paradise – 73’ – 2016
  • The Blood of women – 52’ – 2011
  • The Children of Noma – 52’ – 2005
  • Corsican Sequences – 52’ – 2004
  • Long Sleep – 10’ – 1998

Arnaud Soulier

Arnaud Soulier is a director and sound engineer. He has been living in Vietnam for more than 15 years and has collaborated with many Vietnamese directors such as Bui Thac Chuyen, Phan Dang Di, Pham Ngoc Lan. He has also trained many Vietnamese sound engineers in recent years.

As a director :

  • Congo, A Meandering Democracy – 52’ – 2011
    A Modern World – 52’ – 2005
  • René Vautier, maverick filmmaker – 52’ – 2002
    France 3
  • An Alternative Route– 52’ – 1999
    Arte
  • Paths of the Crossroads– 52’ – 1999
    Heritage Award – Festival du Cinéma du Réel – 1997

Laurent Lutaud

Laurent Lutaud is a French director and author born in Paris.
Initially an assistant director and editor of fiction films, he later devoted himself to documentary filmmaking.

Non-exhaustive list:

  • The school of danger – 92’ – 2019
  • Berre, an Ecological Outlier– 52’ – 1999
  • The Glasses are Resisting – 52’ – 2016
  • Giscard, the impossible come back – 52’ – 2015
  • The Disfigured Life – 52’ – 2012
  • Social plan ! What’s next? – 52’ – 2010
  • Toussaint Louverture, Haiti and France – 5’ – 2005

Fanta Régina Nacro

Born in 1962, Fanta Régina Nacro grew up in a rural region of Burkina Faso. A graduate of the Institute of Cinematographic Education in Ouagadougou in 1986, she then worked as a script writer on Idrissa Ouédraogo’s Le Choixbefore completing additional film training in Paris.

Her first short film, Un Certain Matinin 1991, is considered the first work of cinematographic fiction ever directed by an African woman, and won an award at the Carthage Film Festival.

Short and medium-length films then followed and reinforced her notoriety, notably Puk Niniin 1995 andLe Truc de Konaté in 1998, a comedy promoting the use of condoms.

Bintou was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and also received the award for best short film at Fespaco in 2001.

In 2004, her fiction feature, The Night of Truth, on ethnic conflicts, was also noted.

  • The Night of Truth– 100’ – 2004
    Audience Award – Festival International du Premier Film d’Annonay – 2005
    Grand Prize – Fribourg International Film Festival – 2005
    Best New Writer (Marc Gautron and Fanta Régina Nacro) – San Sebastian – 2004
    Chlotrudis Awards – 2007
    Prince Claus Scholarship – Rotterdam – 2004
    Script Creation Grant – Amiens Festival – 1997
    Paris Film Festival – 2005
    Tribeca Film Festival – 2005
  • Bintou – 31’ – 2001
    Golden Unicorn – Amiens Festival – 2001
    Kodak Award for Best Short Film – Cannes Film Festival – 2001
    Special Jury Prize – Clermont-Ferrand – 2002
    Bermuda Award for Best Short Film – Bermuda International Film Festival – 2001
    Golden Star – Marrakech Festival – 2001
    Special Jury Prize – Tampere – 2002
    Best short film – Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou – 2001
    CILSS People and Development Prize – Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou – 2001
    International Plan Prize – Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou – 2001
    Poitou-Charentes Prize – Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou – 2001
    UNIFEM Prize – Pan-African Festival of Ouagadougou – 2001
    Festival du film francophone de Namur – 2001
  • Le Truc de Konaté – 31’ – 1997
    Special Mention – Clermont-Ferrand – 1999
    Special Prize Créa’son – Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou – 1999
    International Plan Prize – Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou – 1999
    UNDP Prize – Panafrican Festival of Ouagadougou – 1999
    Festival du film francophone de Namur – 1998

Dominique Comtat

Director and photographer, Dominique Comtat is also a film technician (cameraman, sound engineer, editor) and teacher.

Graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Genève in 1982.
In parallel to his activity as a freelance photographer and director, he has been teaching photography and film for more than 25 years, first at the Geneva School of Fine Arts and then in Provence where he has lived since 2001.

Non-exhaustive list:

  • Listen to the Birds – 2021
  • Mr. Strap – 2020
  • Gestures of Pierre – 2016
  • Fungi – 2016
  • Fragments on Time – 2014
  • Mehr Licht (Plus de lumière) – 2010
  • Listen to See – 2007
  • Words for Woes – 2005
  • Some Notes on the Art of Memory – 2003
  • Running the Streets – 1986
  • Blue Lester – 1979

Christian Argentino

Christian Argentino was an assistant on several documentary films (Philippe Grandrieux, William Karel) and on fiction films (Maurice Pialat, Jacques Rozier, Manuel de Oliveira, Alain Tanner, René Allio, Raoul Ruiz, Philippe Faucon) before becoming a director. He regularly works in co-direction with Marie-Laure Désidéri.

  • The Goguettes, The Party of Laughter – 52’ – France 3 Pays de La Loire – 2021
  • Please, Madam, answer me – 2020
  • Marie Ferranti, Literature is a Game – 52′ – France 3 Corse – 2019
  • Georges Hyvernaud, two or three things that really matter – 2020
  • Inherited Veangeance– 52’ – France 3 Corse – 2017
  • Pierre Barouh, the art of meetings – 52′ – France 3 Pays de Loire – 2017
  • In Praise of the Wind – 52′ – France 3 Corse – 2011
  • Giovanna Marini, the Voice of the Invisible – 52′ – TV Paese – 2015
    Diffusion France 3 Corse ViaStella
  • I didn’t go to Ena, I did the campaign – 52’ – TV Tours – 2013
  • Poland, History of Puppets – 52′ – TV Paese – 2013
  • The Opera dei pupi of Palermo with Mimo Cuticchio – 52′ – TV Paese – 2012
    Diffusion France 3 Corse ViaStella
  • On the trestles of the South – 52′ – France 3 Corse – 2010
  • Matra’s Arsenic Mine – 52’ – France 3 Corse – 2009
  • Filming in Boussaada – 52’ – Editions Montparnasse – 2005
  • Being Present (portrait of Thomas Vinterberg) – 52’ – TV5 Monde – 2005
  • Meeting with Jacques Rozier – 52’ – Cytizen TV – 2003
  • Meeting with Youssef Chahine – 52’ – Ognon Picture – 1997
  • Introduction to the method of Jacques Rozier – 17’ – Kinok Films – 1995
  • Boxing Room – 60’ – La Sept Arte – 1992

Marie-Laure Désidéri

Marie-Laure is a trained film editor, since 2001 she has been directing documentaries, regularly co-directed with Christian Argentino.

  • The Goguettes, The Party of Laughter – 52’ – France 3 Pays de La Loire – 2021
  • Please, Madam, answer me – 2020
  • Marie Ferranti, Literature is a Game – 52′ – France 3 Corse – 2019
  • Pierre Barouh, the art of meetings – 52′ – France 3 Pays de Loire – 2017
  • In Praise of the Wind – 52′ – France 3 Corse – 2011
  • Giovanna Marini, the Voice of the Invisible – 52′ – TV Paese – 2015
    Diffusion France 3 Corse ViaStella
  • Poland, History of Puppets – 52′ – TV Paese – 2013
  • The Opera dei pupi of Palermo with Mimo Cuticchio – 52′ – TV Paese – 2012
    Diffusion France 3 Corse ViaStella
  • Angata ! – 20′ for the NGO Sentinels and the Orange Foundation – 2010
  • Les Noctambules – 52’ – co-production Planète – 2005
  • The Dream Years – 18’
    Screenplay Award – Villeurbanne
    Festival of Clermont-Ferrand
  • Franck andson Sidney, Paname– 52′ – coproduction Cytizen – 2001

Jean-Robert Thomann

Jean-Robert Thomann has been living in Taiwan for over ten years. He has made many films about Taiwanese society. His films focus on the island’s traditions as well as contemporary life: Nan Fang Ao, a port for the goddess Matsu (2005), Paris – Taipei, chronicle of everyday cycling (2009).

  • The Taste of Ginger – 40’ – 2021
  • Mei Ying, Apparition – 21’ – 2017
  • A short story at the gateway to the West – 76’ – 2016
  • The Phantom’s Vacation – 57’ – 2013
  • Taïwan : Chosen Portraits – 52’ – 2011
  • Taïwan 2008, words of campaign – 57’ – 2007
  • After the Miracle – 52’ – 2006
  • Nan Fang Ao – 26’ – 2005
  • Taïwan : Chosen Portraits – 78’ – 2004

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