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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Bruno Dumont

Bruno DUMONT (1958, France) began making company films and commercials in 1986. In 1994, he wrote screenplays for the TV documentary series Arthur et les fusées and for his short fiction film Marie et Freddy, a preliminary study for La vie de Jésus (1997). Humanity (1999) received three awards in Cannes. Flandres (2006) won the Grand Prize of the Jury in Cannes. At the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, Hadewijch won the International Film Critics’ award. Ma Loute (2015) was nominated for three César Awards and the Palme d’Or. Dumont received the Leopard of Honour at the 2018 Locarno International Film Festival. In 2019, he directed Jeanne d’Arc, the sequel to Jeannette (2017). France (2021) was selected for the Golden Palm Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

Paris (1993, short), Marie et Freddy/Marie and Freddy (1994, short), La vie de Jésus/The Life of Jesus (1997), L’humanité/Humanity (1999), Twentynine Palms (2003), Flandres (2006), Hadewijch (2009), Hors Satan/Outside Satan (2011), Camille Claudel 1915 (2013), P’tit Quinquin/L’il Quinquin (2014), Ma loute/Slack Bay (2016), Jeannette (2017), Coincoin et les z’inhumains/Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018, TV series), Jeanne d’Arc/Joan of Arc (2019), France (2021)

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Bruno Dumont at IFFR

  • France

    What if famous TV journalist France (Léa Seydoux) suddenly found herself on the wrong side of the story? Biting satire on media and politics.

    • Limelight

  • L’humanité

    A policeman with a simple, sensitive nature investigates the murder of a little girl. A film about human suffering, about the human condition in the c

    • main programme features

  • Jeanne d’Arc

    Bruno Dumont depicts Jeanne d’Arc’s later years, in which she was accused of heresy and witchcraft, in his signature way.

    • Signatures

  • Twentynine Palms

    An American photographer and his new French girlfriend drive their Hummer through the desert near Twentynine Palms, not far from Zabriskie Point. They

    • main programme features

  • La vie de Jésus

    Superior Northern-French rural drama about mopeds, fucking, the existential dead-end street and latent racism of the epileptic Freddy (and his friends

    • main programme

  • La vie de Jésus (2)

  • Hadewijch

    A young novice is thrown out of the nunnery and leaves with an Arab for the Middle East in order to sacrifice herself for her God. Bruno Dumont’s Hade

    • Spectrum

  • Jeannette

    In 1425, 8-year-old Jeannette is not Joan of Arc yet but is already yearning to kick some English butt out of France. Based on Charles Peguy’s poetic

    • Signatures

  • Twentynine Palms