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Sébastien Betbeder

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Sébastien Betbeder
Born (1975-01-04) 4 January 1975 (age 51)
Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
OccupationFilm director
Years active2003-present

Sébastien Betbeder (born 4 January 1975) is a French film director.[1] He has directed more than ten films since 2003.

Biography

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After studying at the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, he joined Le Fresnoy.

He directed several short films before making his first fantasy-inspired feature film, Nuage, which was released in theaters in 2007. This was followed by Les Nuits avec Théodore[2] (selected at Toronto, and winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival) and Deux Automnes Trois Hivers[3] (featured in the ACID programming at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Torino Film Festival)[4], a "dramedy" that follows the lives of thirty-somethings dealing with modern preoccupations.

In 2014, he began a Greenlandic trilogy with Inupiluk[5] (winner of the Prix Jean Vigo for short film and the Audience Award at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival).[6] This was followed by another short film, Le Film que nous tournerons au Groenland, and then the feature film Le Voyage au Groenland (selected for the ACID parallel section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival).[7] For this shoot, he brought actors Thomas Blanchard, Thomas Scimeca, and François Chattot to the remote village of Kullorsuaq. The film was supported by the explorer Nicolas Dubreuil. This cinematic adventure also spawned a transmedia project, notably including the web-series Thomas et Thomas s’en vont au Groenland, a production logbook, and various documentary features.[8]

In 2015, he wrote the radio drama Kepler-452b[9] for France Culture.

In 2016, his fourth feature film, Marie et les Naufragés, was released in French theaters. The comedy starred Pierre Rochefort, Vimala Pons, and Éric Cantona, with a film score composed by Sébastien Tellier.[10]

For Arte, he was given carte blanche to create segments for the program Blow up[11] as well as Arman hors saison[12], a short version of Deux Automnes Trois Hivers. In 2017, he contributed to the collaborative book La Nouvelle comédie du cinéma français and to the 8th issue of the cinema interview journal Répliques.

He directed several music videos for tracks from Albin de la Simone's album L'Un de nous, including "Le Grand Amour",[13] "Une femme" featuring Micha Lescot, and "Dans ma tête" featuring Emmanuelle Devos and Régis Laspalès.[14]

In 2018, he directed his sixth feature film, Ulysse et Mona, starring Éric Cantona and Manal Issa in the title roles.[15]

Selected filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
2014 2 Autumns, 3 Winters
2016 Journey To Greenland
2018 Ulysses & Mona
2025 The Incredible Snow Woman Director It will be screened in Panorama at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2025.[16]

References

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  1. ↑ "" le Voyage au Groenland " : La fuite de la capitale selon Sébastien Betbeder". Le Monde.fr. 29 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Musetto, Vincent (9 May 2013). "Death in San Francisco". Fipresci. Retrieved 19 July 2018. the film that won the FIPRESCI prize, Nights With Theodore (Les nuits avec Theodore), a life-affirming French movie by Sebastien Betherder.
  3. ↑ "2 automnes 3 hivers". ACid. May 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "2 automnes 3 hivers di Sébastien Betbeder". Torino Film Fest (in Italian). 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2018. Premio speciale della Giuria
  5. ↑ "Les lauréats du prix Jean Vigo". Format Court. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Inupiluk". Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand. 8 February 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  7. ↑ "Le Voyage au Groenland". ACid. 15 May 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Palmares 2015". Liège Web Fest. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  9. ↑ "Sur les bancs : "Kepler-452b" 10/10". France Culture. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Sébastien Betbeder, Vimala Pons & Pierre Rochefort - Cinema littéraire sur un radeau !". France Culture. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2018. Pour ce film au ton très libre et étrange, Tellier a choisi une voie électronique rétro-futuriste dans la tradition de Giorgio Moroder.
  11. ↑ ""Out 1" par Sébastien Betbeder". Arte. 5 April 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  12. ↑ Couston, Jérémie (10 May 2014). "Arman hors saison". Télérama. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  13. ↑ "En exclu : le nouveau clip d'Albin de la Simone réalisé par Sébastien Betbeder". Trois Couleurs. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  14. ↑ Casse, Maylis (1 December 2017). "« Dans la tête » : Albin De La Simone s'invente une histoire d'amour avec Emmanuelle Devos". Elle. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  15. ↑ Lemercier, Fabien (29 November 2017). "Sébastien Betbeder prépare Ulysse et Mona". Cineuropa. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  16. ↑ Vassilis Economou (16 January 2025). "Diverse perspectives and limitless creativity abound in the Berlinale Panorama". Cineuropa. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
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