Nicolas Philibert

Having cut his teeth with René Allio (Moi, Pierre Rivière...), Nicolas Philibert naturally turned to the documentary genre.

And since then, he has focused on non-narrative cinema, questioning contemporary society in its many shapes and forms, from La Ville Louvre (1990) until today. His work is frank and objective: no added commentary, no ostensible positions taken, masses of raw material sorted and assembled to obtain the most faithful possible representation. Philibert does not hold the contemporary world in contempt: he always strives to reveal positive aspects, as he did with considerable success in Être et avoir, a delightful portrait of a teacher in a rural school, the deserved winner of the Louis Delluc Prize and the César Awards. De chaque instant belongs to this tradition.

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