Ladj Ly
Directing
- Born
- January 3, 1978 (age 48) · Mali
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.
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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.
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Known for
Behind the camera19
- 2027Dumas: Black Devil Director, Writer
- 2025Short cuts : Ladj Ly's Les Misérables Original Film Writer
- 2023Les Indésirables Director, Screenplay
- 2023Hood Witch Producer
- 2023Mercy Screenplay
- 2022Athena Screenplay, Producer
- 2022Five-O Producer
- 2021Fake News Co-Producer
- 2021Dans ma forêt de ciment Producer
- 2021Narvalos
