Nicolas Joly

Save Our Souls (2025)

Bobbing around on Mediterranean waters aboard the Ocean Viking, aid workers from the French relief service SOS Méditerranée gaze at the horizon. Is that a rubber dinghy in the distance, or is it garbage? The organization sails up and down the Libyan coas ...

Camping du Lac (2024)

Éléonore is driving west when her car breaks down in the middle of Brittany, France. She rents a bungalow there in a campground with a view of the lake, in which, it is said, lives a legendary beast. From mobile home to mobile home, she observes the pres ...

Holding Up the Sky (2023)

"When the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will collapse and come to crush everything." This wisdom is passed down from generation to generation by the Yanomami of Brazil. But gold miners are polluting the rivers, ...

Stuntwomen (2022)

The daily life of Petra, Virginie, and Estelle, three stuntwomen, from the dangerous film sets, where they face all kinds of deadly dangers, to the safety of their homes. ...

El Conquistador (2021)

Through Jann (2020)

Jann Gallois is a dancer and choreographer. Her body is her work tool. Always looking for the right movement, she twists it, bends it, stretches it, breaks it. But memories reappear and the body's memory, excessively in demand, awakens old wounds. How does ...

Les Codes de Chambord (2019)

The Grand Ball (2018)

It is the history of a ball. A grand ball. Each summer, more than two thousand people tributary of the whole of Europe in a corner of the French countryside. For 7 days and 8 nights, they dance, again and again, lose the concept of time, braving their toil ...

Treasure Island (2018)

A summer on an island of leisure in the Paris region. Land of Adventures, dredge and transgression for some, place of refuge and escape for the other. Its pay range to its hidden nooks, the exploration of a Kingdom of childhood, in resonance with the bustl ...

I'll Come to You with Deaf Eyes (2016)

This film is a letter to my friend Vincent who died ten years ago. Vincent was Deaf. He introduced me to his language, his culture, his world. Through Vincent 's life, the film will examine the roots of the distress that plagues the Deaf, and also explore ...

Announcements (2013)

The film Announcements paints the portraits of seven women reflecting on the same theme. Their starting point is the announcement to Hagar, Sarah and Mary as in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. Their thoughts spread out and weave a new w ...

Living/Building (2012)

A highway construction project affects the life of many people. ...

Kafka Goes to the Movies (2002)

While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twenty-fiv ...

Orlan, carnal art (2001)

A documentary covering the rebirth of St.Orlan from 1991 through most of the decade. ...

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997)

An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and '70s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on ...

Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas (1989)

A portrait of pianist Alfred Brendel performing and analysing Franz Schubert's final three sonatas. ...

Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher (1989)

Far from Standardised visual recording, Akerman and her accomplice, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton allows us to discover a fine moment of contemporary music. ...

Une vallée contre un empire (1981)

When the Soviet troops entered Afghanistan in December 1979, Christophe de Ponfilly and Jérôme Bony made their first clandestine reportage in the Panjshir valley. "A valley against an empire" testifies to the beginning of the struggle of a young commande ...

Journey to the Land of Rimbaud (1983)

A documentary about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. ...