Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Leçon de Bicyclette (short)
Marché (short)
Menuisiers (short)
Petit Frère et petite Sœur (short)
Place de l’Opéra / UK and USA: Traffi c in Front
of the Opera House in Paris (short)
Premiers Pas de Bébé (short)
Radeau avec Baigneurs (short)
Le Rémouleur et l’Assiette au noir (short)
Repas en Famille (short)
Retour d’une Promenade en Mer (short)
Ronde enfantine (short)
Scènes d’Enfants (short)
Touristes revenant d’une Excursion (short)
1898 Lourdes (short)
Peinture à l’Envers (short)
Un Lourd Chargement (short)
La Vie et la Passion de Jésus-Christ (short)
1900 Le Chalet du Cycle (short)
Danses espagnoles (short)
Inauguration de l’Exposition universelle (short)
Pont d’Iéna (short)
La Tour Eiffel (short)
1901 Le Ring (short)
LUNEAU, GEORGES (October 25, 1941, Loire-
Atlantique, France–)
After his studies of modern letters, he settled in
Paris in 1964. From 1965 to 1968, he directed poetic
and experimental shows in various universities (La
Sorbonne, Assas). In 1969, he made his fi lm debut
as a cameraman on several shorts and as assistant
to director Peter Kassovitz (La Montre, short) and
Diourka Medveczky (Paul). The same year, he collaborated
on a TV documentary on the hippie movement
as a director and cinematographer of a segment shot
in Nepal. He also worked as a reporter and photographer
and directed institutional fi lms. In 1983, he
created with Bernard Lortat-Jacob the Festival du
Film des Musiques du Monde.
Filmography
1976 La Ballade de Pabuji
1985 La Presqu’Île (also screenwriter, dialogist; unreleased)
Television Filmography
1971 Daasamo (16-mm documentary; short)
Mani-Rimdu (16-mm documentary; short)
1974 Mithilda (16-mm documentary)
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1978 Le Cinéma de Satyajit Ray (16-mm documentary;
short)
Koe (16-mm documentary; short)
Le Cinéma de Franco Giraldi (16-mm documentary;
short)
La Musique indienne vocale et instrumentale (16mm
documentary; short)
Les Danses de Manipuri (16-mm documentary;
short)
1979 Seva Sangh Samiti (16-mm documentary; short)
Le Temple de Konarak (16-mm documentary;
short)
Benarès, les Pèlerins du Raga (16-mm mediumlength)
Le Chant des Fous (3 45 and 93' 16-mm
documentary)
1980 Vivre autrement (16-mm documentary; mediumlength)
1981 Moyen-Orient (5 26' documentary; episodes:
“Les Bateaux de Simbad,” “Koweit,” “Le
Rêve de Zénobie,” “Palmyre,” “Les Muezzins
d’Alep,” “Saint Siméon le Stylite,” “N.D. de
Sardenaye”)
1982 Si on jouait au Théâtre (4 13' documentary;
episodes: “Le Décor,” “Les Coulisses,” “Le
Clown,” “Le Metteur en Scène”)
1987 Le Passage (video documentary; short)
1989 Musica sarda (Super-16-mm documentary)
1991 Les Gitans (video documentary; mediumlength)
1992 Little Haïti (video documentary; mediumlength)
1993 Les Derniers Pêcheurs de Perles (16-mm documentary;
short)
Entretien avec Jim Harrison (video documentary;
short)
Jim Harrison entre Chien et Loup (Super 16-mm
documentary; medium-length)
1998 Bordertown, a Journey with Barry Gifford (video
documentary; medium-length)
LUNEL, FRANÇOIS (1971, Paris, France–)
He studied cinema at the University of Paris VIII and
began directing documentaries for the Planète TV
channel. From 1992 to 1996, he sojourned to Sarajevo,
where he worked with Bosniac director Ademir
Kenovic for two years. The shooting of his fi rst feature
fi lm took two years. He is also a teacher at the
Fémis and at the University of Val-de-Marne.