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Ladj Ly

Ladj Ly

Director

Ladj Ly (born 19 March 1980 in Paris) is a French film director and screenwriter. He won a Jury Prize in Cannes Film Festival for Les Misérables in 2019. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Ly's parents are from Mali and he grew up in Montfermeil, a district of Bosquets. He started making films with his friends Kim Chapiron, Romain Gavras, and JR, in the collective Kourtrajmé. He directed his first films, notably for Oxmo Puccino, and his first documentaries, 365 jours à Clichy-Montfermeil (365 days in Clichy-Montfermeil), filmed after the 2005 French riots; Go Fast Connexion; and 365 jours au Mali (365 days in Mali). In 2011, Ly was given a three-year prison sentence for kidnapping and false imprisonment. In 2012, the sentence was reduced on appeal to two years imprisonment, and one year suspended sentence. Les Misérables is the first non-documentary film he directed. The film received many awards, notably at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and a nomination for the César Award for Best Short Film in 2018. In the same year, he was nominated for the César Award for Best Documentary Film for À voix haute: La Force de la parole with Stéphane de Freitas. In 2018 in Montfermeil, Ly created a free film school, called "L'école Kourtrajmé". Source: Article "Ladj Ly" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Born: January 3, 1978 (Age 46) in Mali

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Ladj Ly  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
5.7
ActorLadj2006
Movie
6.3
ActorJeune noir tchat vidéo2010
Movie
6.5
ActorPaoudré2018
Movie
8
ActorHimself2021
TV Show
5.1
ActorSelf
1 Episode
2023
Short Film
7.8
Actor2015
Movie
7.8
DirectingDirector, Writer2019
Limited Series
5.9
DirectingDirector, Producer, Writer
1 Episode
2020-2020
Movie
4.2
ProductionCo-Producer2021
Movie
6.9
WritingScreenplay, Producer2022
Movie
7.7
DirectingDirector2017
Movie
5.6
WritingScreenplay2023
Movie
6.1
DirectingScreenplay, Director2023
Movie
5.2
ProductionProducer2024
Movie
DirectingDirector, Writer
TV Show
7
DirectingDirector
2 Episodes
2006
Short Film
7.1
DirectingWriter, Director2017
Short Film
ProductionProducer2021
Short Film
ProductionProducer2022
Short Film
6.3
DirectingDirector, Editor, Cinematography2006
Movie
7.8
WritingWriter2009
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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