Patric Chiha | |
---|---|
![]() Chiha in 2017 | |
Born | [1] | 3 March 1975
Occupations |
|
Years active | 2000–present |
Patric Chiha (born 3 March 1975) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and film editor of Hungarian and Lebanese origin. [2] [3] After directing several short films and documentaries, his first feature film, Domain (2009), premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. [2] In 2014, he directed his second feature film, Boys Like Us. His documentaries Brothers of the Night (2016), and If It Were Love (2020) were both selected for the Berlin Film Festival. His third feature film, The Beast in the Jungle , was released in 2023.
Chiha was born in Vienna, Austria on 3 March 1975. [1] [2] He is of Hungarian and Lebanese origin, [2] and has lived in France since the age of 18. [4]
Chiha studied fashion design at ESAA Duperré in Paris and film editing at INSAS in Brussels. [2]
After directing several short films and documentaries, his first feature film, Domain (2009), premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. [2] In 2014, he directed his second feature film, Boys Like Us. His documentaries Brothers of the Night (2016), and If It Were Love (2020) were both selected for the Berlin Film Festival. [2] [5]
His third feature film, The Beast in the Jungle , premiered at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. [6] [7]
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Editor | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Une cicatrice derrière la tête | No | No | Yes | Short film |
2003 | Bologna centrale | No | No | Yes | Documentary; also cinematographer and assistant director |
2004 | La visite | No | No | Yes | |
La route des hêtres | No | No | Yes | Documentary | |
Casa Ugalde | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short film | |
2005 | Les messieurs | Yes | No | Yes | Documentary |
2006 | Home | Yes | Yes | No | Medium-length film |
2008 | Where Is the Head of the Prison? | Yes | Yes | No | Short film |
2009 | Domain | Yes | Yes | No | |
2014 | Boys Like Us | Yes | Yes | No | |
2016 | Brothers of the Night | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary |
2020 | If It Were Love | Yes | No | No | Documentary |
2022 | Exalted Mars | No | No | Yes | Short film |
2023 | The Beast in the Jungle | Yes | Yes | No |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | If It Were Love | Golden Athena for Best Documentary | Nominated | [8] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | Brothers of the Night | Best Documentary Film | Nominated | [9] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Brothers of the Night | Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film | Nominated | [10] |
2020 | If It Were Love | Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film | Won | [11] |
2023 | The Beast in the Jungle | Panorama Audience Award for Best Feature Film | Nominated | [6] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | If It Were Love | Best Documentary | Nominated | [12] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | The Beast in the Jungle | Best Film | Pending | [13] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Domain | International Film Critics' Week Award | Nominated | [14] |
Queer Lion | Nominated | [15] | ||
The winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Film.
Bertrand Tavernier was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer.
The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life.
Otar Iosseliani was a Georgian film director, known for movies such as Falling Leaves, Pastorale and Favourites of the Moon. Iosseliani received a lifetime achievement honor – the CineMerit Award at the Munich International Film Festival in 2011 for his career accomplishments.
Bertrand Bonello is a French film director, screenwriter, producer, composer and actor. His work has been associated with the New French Extremity. He wrote and directed Something Organic (1998), The Pornographer (2001),Tiresia (2003), Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (2005), On War (2008), House of Tolerance (2011), Saint Laurent (2014), Nocturama (2016), Zombi Child (2019), Coma (2022), and The Beast (2023). He also starred in Portrait of the Artist (2015), and Titane (2021). He was nominated for the César Award for Best Director for Saint Laurent, and was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2015.
The Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's "Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the "Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year.
The 10th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1960. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Spanish film El Lazarillo de Tormes directed by César Fernández Ardavín.
The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival board: business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian.
If It Were Love is a French documentary film, directed by Patric Chiha and released in 2020. The film profiles the professional and personal lives of the dancers in Crowd, a touring piece by choreographer Gisèle Vienne about the rave scene of the 1990s.
Incredible but True is a 2022 French-Belgian black comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. It stars Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, and Anaïs Demoustier. In the film, Alain (Chabat) and Marie (Drucker) see their lives turned upside down after moving into a new home which has a mysterious tunnel in the basement.
Audrey Diwan is a French film director of Lebanese origin. Prior to becoming a film director, she worked as a journalist and a screenwriter. In 2021, her film Happening won the Golden Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in a "unanimous decision."
Coma is a 2022 French film written and directed by Bertrand Bonello. Combining animation and live action, it tells the story of a teenage girl who is locked in her house during a global health crisis and navigates between dreams and reality, until she starts following a disturbing and mysterious YouTuber named Patricia Coma. It stars Louise Labèque, Julia Faure, Gaspard Ulliel, Laetitia Casta, Vincent Lacoste, Louis Garrel and Anaïs Demoustier. Coma was the last film Ulliel worked in before his death.
The Beast in the Jungle is a 2023 drama film directed by Patric Chiha, from a screenplay by Chiha, Axelle Ropert and Jihane Chouaib, freely adapted from the 1903 novella of the same name by Henry James, and starring Anaïs Demoustier, Tom Mercier and Béatrice Dalle. The film is a co-production between France, Belgium and Austria. It made its world premiere in competition in the Panorama section of the 73rd Berlin Film Festival on 17 February 2023, and was released theatrically in France by Les Films du Losange on 16 August 2023.
Saint Omer is a 2022 French legal drama film directed by Alice Diop and starring Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanda. It is Diop's first narrative feature after working as a documentary filmmaker. In the film, Rama (Kagame) is a pregnant young novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Malanda), a Senegalese woman accused of murdering her 15-month-old child by leaving her on a beach to be swept away by the tide, in order to turn the tragic event into a literary retelling of Medea. It is based on the French court case of Fabienne Kabou, who was convicted of the same crime. Diop attended Kabou's trial in 2016.
The 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, took place from 16 to 26 February 2023. It was the first completely in-person Berlinale since the 70th in 2020. The festival added a new competition section for television series.
On the Adamant is a 2023 French-language documentary film directed by Nicolas Philibert. The work portrays the floating structure L'Adamant Day Center, located on the Seine river in Paris. The structure is a special daycare center for the treatment of adults with mental disorders.
The Girl with a Bracelet is a 2019 mystery drama film written and directed by Stéphane Demoustier. It is a co-production between France and Belgium. It is a remake of the 2018 Argentine film The Accused. The film stars Roschdy Zem, Anaïs Demoustier, Mélissa Guers and Chiara Mastroianni. The film had its world premiere at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival on 8 August 2019, and was released in France by Le Pacte on 12 February 2020.
Daaaaaalí! is a 2023 French comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. It has been described as a "real fake biopic" about the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.