Nicolas Philibert

Regissör, Författare, Editor, Skådespelare, Producent

10 januari 1951 (75 år)
Nicolas Philibert (French: [filibɛʁ]; born 10 January 1951) is a French documentary filmmaker. He has directed films since 1978. At the 73rd Berlinale (2023), he receives the Golden Bear for his film "On the Adamant".

Philibert's father was a film lecturer and he attended his talks in his youth. This encouraged him to embark on a film career. He started this with René Allio (1970), as a trainee on Les Camisards as an assistant on Rude Journée pour la reine (1973) and assistant-director on Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère... (1975). In 1978 he co-directed with Gérard Mordillat a feature documentary His Master's Voice, in which a dozen bosses of big industrial groups discuss power, leadership, hierarchies and the role of unions. Between 1985 and 1987, he made several films about mountains and adventure for TV, then turned to making feature-length documentaries for theatrical distribution: La Ville Louvre (1990), Le Pays des sourds (1992), Un animal, des animaux (1995), La Moindre des choses (1996) - at the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, as well as an experimental film with the pupils of the theatre school Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Qui sait? (1998). In 2001, Nicolas Philibert made Être et avoir, about daily life in a single class school on a small village in the Auvergne. It won the Prix Louis Delluc 2002, and became a box office and critical success in France and internationally. The film was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. With Retour en Normandie (2007), he revisited the traces of a previous films, made thirty years earlier by René Allio, with local peasants playing the lead roles. With Nénette (2010), made at the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes in Paris, he produced an intimated portrait of the most famous of its inhabitants a female orang-utang, Nénette, held in captivity for 36 years. La Maison de la radio (2013), takes us into the heart of the French Radio headquarters in Paris, finding out who inhabits the place and discovering the mysteries of its long corridors. Over the last fifteen years there have been more than 120 retrospectives or 'homages' to Philibert organised internationally including the British Film Institute (London) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

He was one of the directors invited to nominate his favourite films in the British Film Institute's 2012 poll.

He explains, in French, his motivations, his influences (including Agnés Varda) and the history of his career as a documentary film maker, especially the 'impermeable' frontiers between documentary and drama in an interview recorded in April 2012.

Känd för

  • Att vara och ha – en lovsång till livet
    Att vara och ha – en lovsång till livet2002
  • Ombord på Adamant
    Ombord på Adamant2023
  • In the Land of the Deaf
    In the Land of the Deaf1992
  • La Maison de la radio
    La Maison de la radio2013
  • Nénette
    Nénette2010
  • En historia om vinden
    En historia om vinden1989
  • Every Little Thing
    Every Little Thing1997
  • Louvre City
    Louvre City1990
  • Back to Normandy
    Back to Normandy2007
  • Each and Every Moment
    Each and Every Moment2018
  • Tillbaka till Adamant - Inlagd på Averroès & Rosa Parks
    Tillbaka till Adamant - Inlagd på Averroès & Rosa Parks2024
  • Animals and More Animals
    Animals and More Animals1996
  • Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère...
    Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère...1976
  • Tillbaka till Adamant - Skrivmaskinen och annan huvudbry
    Tillbaka till Adamant - Skrivmaskinen och annan huvudbry2024
  • His Master's Voice
    His Master's Voice1978
  • Qui sait?
    Qui sait?1999
  • L'heure exquise
    L'heure exquise1981

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