Nicolas Klotz

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Low Life (2012)

A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying death, bodies ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Elisabeth Perceval
CAST:  Camille Rutherford  •  Arash Naiman  •  Luc Chessel  •  Winson Calixte

A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying death, bodies ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Elisabeth Perceval
CAST:  Camille Rutherford  •  Arash Naiman  •  Luc Chessel  •  Winson Calixte

Paria (2000)

First part of a "trilogy of modern times" (the second one is La Blessure, and third - La question humaine). Paria follows the path of two characters, Momo and Victor. Momo –remarkably played by Gérald Thomassin– lives in the streets, while Victor, on the edge of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  Cyril Troley  •  Gérald Thomassin  •  Didier Berestetsky  •  Aristide Demonico

First part of a "trilogy of modern times" (the second one is La Blessure, and third - La question humaine). Paria follows the path of two characters, Momo and Victor. Momo –remarkably played by Gérald Thomassin– lives in the streets, while Victor, on the edge of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  Cyril Troley  •  Gérald Thomassin  •  Didier Berestetsky  •  Aristide Demonico

Heartbeat Detector (2007)

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  Mathieu Amalric  •  Michael Lonsdale  •  Lou Castel  •  Jean-Pierre Kalfon

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  Mathieu Amalric  •  Michael Lonsdale  •  Lou Castel  •  Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Friday the 13th (2016)

The day after the November 13th terrorist attack in Paris, Michka Assayas’s weekly radio program on rock ‘n’ roll is haunted by this mass murder.  (more)

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The day after the November 13th terrorist attack in Paris, Michka Assayas’s weekly radio program on rock ‘n’ roll is haunted by this mass murder.  (more)

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Mata Atlântica (2016)

A young girl disappears in a forest in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Elisabeth Perceval
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A young girl disappears in a forest in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil.  (more)

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Momies et Mutants (2015)

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Ceremony Brazza (2014)

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Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les ... (2013)

This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval’s 2015 feature, “Ceremony”.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Elisabeth Perceval
CAST:  Vincent Macaigne  •  Luc Chessel  •  Silvia Costa

This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval’s 2015 feature, “Ceremony”.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Elisabeth Perceval
CAST:  Vincent Macaigne  •  Luc Chessel  •  Silvia Costa

Najgo! (2013)

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La Consolation (2007)

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The Wild Frontier (2018)

A growing city, where nearly 7,800 people lived, will be destroyed by 50% in February 2016. How will the 4,000 migrants expelled from the South zone reborn from their ashes in the northern zone. Before the state decided to annihilate the entire territory in October ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Elisabeth Perceval
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A growing city, where nearly 7,800 people lived, will be destroyed by 50% in February 2016. How will the 4,000 migrants expelled from the South zone reborn from their ashes in the northern zone. Before the state decided to annihilate the entire territory in October ...  (more)

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Fugitive, Where Are You Running to? (2018)

Life for refugees and migrants stuck at Calais: Filmed amidst the camps, the beaches, the sea and the sky, impressions of the lived experiences of these people wavering between despair and hope.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Elisabeth Perceval
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Life for refugees and migrants stuck at Calais: Filmed amidst the camps, the beaches, the sea and the sky, impressions of the lived experiences of these people wavering between despair and hope.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Elisabeth Perceval
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The Bengali Night (1988)

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  John Hurt  •  Hugh Grant  •  Shabana Azmi  •  Anjan Dutt

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  John Hurt  •  Hugh Grant  •  Shabana Azmi  •  Anjan Dutt

La nuit sacrée (1993)

A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisis: he wants to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  Amina Annabi  •  Miguel Bosé  •  Maïté Nahyr  •  François Chattot

A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisis: he wants to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  Amina Annabi  •  Miguel Bosé  •  Maïté Nahyr  •  François Chattot

The Wound (2005)

Blandine arrives at the Charles de Gaulle Airport, seeking a reunion with her husband Papi in Paris. Despite articulate claims for asylum, she is held in a cramped cell along with a number of fellow Africans, humiliated, mistreated and told that they can expect ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  Noëlla Mossaba  •  Adama Doumbia  •  Matty Djambo  •  Ousman Diallo

Blandine arrives at the Charles de Gaulle Airport, seeking a reunion with her husband Papi in Paris. Despite articulate claims for asylum, she is held in a cramped cell along with a number of fellow Africans, humiliated, mistreated and told that they can expect ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz
CAST:  Noëlla Mossaba  •  Adama Doumbia  •  Matty Djambo  •  Ousman Diallo

Mademoiselle Julie (2011)

Mademoiselle Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a Count. The young woman of the title is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean (Nicolas Bouchaud), who is particularly ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Frédéric Fisbach
CAST:  Juliette Binoche  •  Nicolas Bouchaud  •  Bénédicte Cerruti

Mademoiselle Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a Count. The young woman of the title is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean (Nicolas Bouchaud), who is particularly ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Klotz  •  Frédéric Fisbach
CAST:  Juliette Binoche  •  Nicolas Bouchaud  •  Bénédicte Cerruti
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