Known For
Production
Born
Mar 29, 1957
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
29 titles
François Margolin
Biography
François Margolin, born on the 29th of March 1957, alumnus from FEMIS (French National Film School), combines the hats of writer, director and producer. He directed Mensonge in 1994, with Nathalie Baye, The Opium of the Talibans in 2001 and Les Petits Soldats (about Child Soldiers in Liberia) in 2005. His first short movie, Elle et Lui, won the famous Jean Vigo Prize. His work as a producer won him to work with prestigious directors like Raoul Ruiz (Nucingen House, Dias de Campo), Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Flight of the Red Balloon), Raymond Depardon (Empty Quarter, une Femme en Afrique), Olivier Assayas (Boarding Gate) or Costa Gavras and Abbas Kiarostami for the omnibus documentary À propos de Nice, la suite. In 1986 he created the production company of Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris and worked as a journalist during the eighties for Liberation and L’Express, in Africa and Afghanistan. He published a successful book about the Black Jews of Ethiopia, We were the only Jews in the World, in 2008.
Known For
Filmography
Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Producer
Sarah Halimi: An Anti-Semitic and Unpunished Crime
Director
L'automne à Pyongyang, un portrait de Claude Lanzmann
Director
Slava Ukraini
Producer
Sons of Cain
Producer
Dirty Lands
Producer
Napalm
Producer
The Battle of Mosul
Producer
Peshmerga
Producer
Death in Sarajevo
Producer
Jihadists
Director
The Art Dealer
Director
Opium
Producer
Ballet aquatique
Nucingen House
(voice)
Secrets
Producer
Boarding Gate
Producer
La Recta Provincia
Associate Producer
La Recta Provincia
Associate Producer
Flight of the Red Balloon
Producer
Days in the Country
Producer
Les petits soldats
Writer
OAS, Une histoire interdite
Director
The Pilgrimage of Students and Jacob
Producer
Concerning Nice
Producer
Mensonge
Director
Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa
Producer
Ciné regards
Self
Paris, The Visit
Director