Filmography

HAPPINESS

2014
« Director Thomas Balmes captures a vanishing way of life in remote Bhutan in this Sundance cinematography award-winning documentary. » – Stephen Farber, HollywoodReporter

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BABIES

2010
« Babies just might restore your faith in our perplexing, peculiar and stubbornly lovable species. » – Anthony Oliver Scott, The New York Times

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A Normal Life

2009
“You would be wrong to miss this movie. (…) You will recognize in Jill Coulon a mistress filmmaker.” Philippe Meyer, France Culture

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DAMAGES

2005
« It shows how we assess the value of the monetary compensation sought for loss of financial support, consortium and the enjoyment of life itself » – Koskoff

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A Decent Factory

2004
« Fascinating! » – Financial Times

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Christ Comes to the Papuans

2001
« This deceptively simple, sometimes funny film nevertheless raises troubling questions about the missionaries’ conversion methods and the way governments use them to control tribal populations. » – Pam Troy, San Francisco International Film Festival

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Maharadjah Burger

1997
« A squeaky and offbeat documentary that, through the eyes of the Indians, quips the triumphant West. » – L’express

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Bosnia Hotel

1996
« This way of evoking North-South relations, of speaking philosophy, of filming Africans with dignity, is subversive. « Bosnia Hotel » has this clever and endearing side it displays this innovative will of resistance, of shift, of sense. » – Magali Jauffret, L’Humanité

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Fare un film, e per me vivere

1995

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