Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Plastic Arts of Avignon and attended L’Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (National Superior
Art School of Paris). She directed institutional
fi lms and trailers before collaborating as an editor
with Pavel Lounguine (1998 Un Siècle d’Ecrivains,
TV documentary, episode “Maiakovski”; Les Passions
selon Marcos, documentary; Tournament of Shadows,
documentary, also script supervisor). After directing
her fi rst documentary (You’re Maybe Sitting Next to a
Satanist), she fi lmed her fi rst short, La Carpe.
Filmography
2002 La Carpe (short; also screenwriter, editor)
2007 Ecoute le Temps (also screenwriter, dialogist,
shot in 2005)
Television Filmography
1997 You’re Maybe Sitting Next to a Satanist (documentary
short; co-director with Antoine Simkine;
also co-producer, co-cinematographer,
co-editor)
2001 Boris Eltsine, l’Enfance d’un Chef (documentary;
co-director with Daniel Leconte)
KAZANDJIAN, STÉPHANE (August 26, 1974,
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
After studying at the ESSEC (a business school), he
learned screenwriting at the Conservatoire Européen
d’Ecriture audiovisuelle. In 2000, he directed a short
(En Solitaire) that convinced producers to fi nance his
fi rst feature-length fi lm. He co-wrote Bloody Mallory
(Julien Magnat, 2002), Après (short, Angelo Cianci,
2003) and Scalps (8 52' TV series, Jean-Marc Brondolo,
Xavier Durringer).
Filmography
2000 En Solitaire (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2001 Sexy Boys (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
2008 Modern Love (also screenwriter, dialogist)
KÉBADIAN, JACQUES (April 20, 1940, Paris,
France–)
Having graduated from the IDHEC in 1963, he was
an assistant director to Robert Bresson (1966 Au
Hasard Balthazar / Min vän Balthazar / USA: Balthazar,
France / Sweden; 1967 Mouchette; 1969 Une femme
douce / UK: A Gentle Creature / USA: A Gentle Woman,
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also actor), Michèle Rosier (1977 Mon Coeur est rouge,
shot in 1975), and Michel Andrieu (1980 Bastien, Bastienne,
Michel Andrieu, shot in 1978). He also played in
Mourir à Trente Ans (as himself, Romain Goupil, 1982)
and Les Baisers de Secours (Philippe Garrel, 1989) and
co-edited Une Femme en Afrique / UK and USA: Empty
Quarter: A Woman in Africa (Raymond Depardon,
1985) and Paris, mon petit Corps est bien las de ce grand
Monde (Françoise Prenant, 2000).
Filmography
1962– Cérémonie pour une Victoire (short)
1966
1972 Albertine, le Souvenir parfumé de Marie-Rose
(short; shot in 1970)
1979 Buvards (short)
1980 Histoires d’une Sculpture (documentary; short)
Trans-Europe sur “L’Homme construit sa Ville”
d’Ipoustéguy (documentary; short)
1981 Arménie 1900 (documentary; short)
1987 Blanche et Claire (short; also screenwriter)
1993 Mémoires arméniennes (documentary;
medium-length; also screenwriter)
1998 D’une Brousse à l’Autre (documentary; also
screenwriter, cinematographer, co-editor)
2002 20 Ans après (documentary; also screenwriter)
2005 La Fragile Armada (co-director with Joani
Hocquenghem; also co-screenwriter, coproducer,
co-cinematographer, co-sound engineer,
co-editor)
Television Filmography
1962– Trotsky (documentary; medium-length)
1967
1972 Madame Musique (documentary; mediumlength)
1973 Mass Media USA (3 52' documentary)
1975 Ipoustéguy et son Oeuvre sculptée (documentary;
medium-length)
1981 Histoire d’Amour: Colombe et Avedis
KECHICHE, ABDELLATIF (December 7, 1960,
Tunis, Tunisia–)
Tunisian born, he arrived in France in 1967. Having
trained as an actor at the Conservatory of Antibes,
he made his stage debut in 1978 and directed his
fi rst play in Avignon at age twenty-one (L’Architecte et