Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

72 • BEL, FRANÇOIS
Filmography
1977 Le Chien de Monsieur Michel (short)
1980 Diva (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist)
1983 La Lune dans le Caniveau / Lo specchio del desiderio
/ USA: The Moon in the Gutter (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France
/ Italy)
1986 37°2 le Matin / UK and USA: Betty Blue (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1989 Roselyne et les Lions / USA: Roselyne and the
Lions (also co-screenwriter)
1992 IP5, l’Île aux Pachydermes (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1994 Okatu (documentary; co-director with Jackie
Bastide)
2001 Mortel Transfert / Mortal Transfert (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; France / Canada)
Television Filmography
1997 Assigné à Résidence / Released on British TV
as an episode of Works TV series: Locked in
Syndrom / US: The Diving Bell and the Papillon
(documentary short)
2002 Loft Paradox (documentary)
BEL, FRANÇOIS (1931, France–January 18, 2007,
France)
A former assistant director (1961 Gala, short, Jean-
Daniel Pollet), he co-directed animal documentaries.
Filmography
1970 Le Territoire des Autres (documentary; co-director
with Michel Fano, Jacqueline Lecompte,
Gérard Vienne; also co-cinematographer;
France / Belgium)
Comme une Araignée sur un Fil (documentary;
short)
1971 Le Coucou (documentary; short)
1973 Le Brame du Cerf (documentary; short)
1977 La Griffe et la Dent / USA: Fang and Claw (documentary;
co-director with Gérard Vienne; also
co-cinematographer, sound engineer; shot in
1973)
1992 L’Arche et les Déluges (documentary; also cinematographer)
Television Filmography
1987 L’Animal et son Territoire (9 7'; co-director
with Alain-Marie Thomas)
BELLANGER, GÉRARD (1942, France–)
He co-directed animation fi lms with children before
working as delegate producer (2002 Le Ministre
félicité, animation, short, Cemal and Meral Erez) and
co-producer (2003 Tueurs français, short, Nicolas
Jacquet). He authored several books (1977 Le Cinéma
dans la Classe, Casterman; 1979 L’Enfant et la Caméra,
Casterman).
Filmography
1980 Profession: Réalisateur Âge: 10 Ans (co-director
with Daniel Serre; shot in 1977–1979)
1999 Les Aventures de Guédé (short; co-director
with Christian Mercier de Beaurouvre; also
co-screenwriter, delegate producer)
BELLETTI, JAN (July 12, 1982, Saint-Germain-en-
Laye, Yvelines, France–)
He began directing amateur shorts at age eleven
(more than 200 fi lms) and a few years later created
his own production company, Every Pictures, which
notably fi nanced his fi rst feature and several shorts
(2007 Fracassés, Franck Llopis; Asylum, Olivier Château;
L’Enfi leuse de Couette, Franck Llopis).
Filmography
2003 La Bataille du Parc (short)
2004 180 (short)
2005 1805 (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist,
producer)
BELLON, YANNICK (Marie-Annick Bellon / April
6, 1924, Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France–)
The daughter of a magistrate father and a photographer
mother, she spent a year at IDHEC before entering
fi lms as an editor (1947 Paris 1900, documentary,
Nicole Védrès; La Cathédrale, short, Jean Béranger; Illusion,
short, Jean Rougeul; 1948 Transports urbains, short,
Marcel Gibaud; Versailles et ses Fantômes, short, Jean
Béranger; 1950 Rondo sur la Piste, short, also technical
adviser, Maurice Henry; Toulouse Lautrec, short, Robert
Hessens; 1951 Les Petits Mystères de Paris, short, Pierre
Gout; 1953 Les Crimes de l’Amour, segment “Mina de
Vanghel,” Maurice Clavel, Maurice Barry; Au Cœur des
Alpes, short, Mildred Pease; Pastorale interrompue, short,
Mildred Pease; 1958 Images pour Baudelaire, short,
Pierre Kast; 1959 Le Bel Âge, Pierre Kast; Une Question
d’Assurance, short, Pierre Kast; 1960 Natercia / Merci