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Yves Jeuland (born 1968) is a French author and director of documentary films, best known for his archival and direct cinema films.
Many of Jeuland's films are about political engagement or the practice of power. Between 1999 and 2001, he followed Bertrand Delanoë for the Parisian municipal election in Paris à tout prix. He traces the history of the French communists in Camarades in 2004, or the French socialists in Le siècle des Socialistes in 2005. In 2010, he directed Le Président, where he filmed Georges Frêche during his last political campaign. In 2014, he directed Un temps de président, a documentary on the daily life of the French president François Hollande. His movie Les gens du Monde, [1] about the work of the journalists of the daily newspaper was part of the Official Selection of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. [2] He also directed other genres: Bleu, blanc, rose (2002), overviews the history of the LGBT movement in France.
The film Paris à tout pris won the 7 d'Or for best documentary series.
In 2007, his film Comme un Juif en France ( Being Jewish in France ) a three-hour documentary on the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in France from the 19th century to the present day [3] won the Lia Award of Jerusalem Film Festival.
In 2013 and in 2017, he won the prize for the best television documentary by the French Syndicate of Cinéma Critics: once for Il est minuit, Paris s'éveille, on post-war Parisian nights with the testimonies of Jean Rochefort, Juliette Gréco and Charles Aznavour, and the second time for Un Français nommé Gabin, a portrait on the career and the life of Jean Gabin. Un Français nommé Gabin was also selected for the French Film Festival.
In 2021 he released the documentary film Charlie Chaplin, the genius of Liberty, selected at Cannes Classics [4] (classic cinema section of the Cannes Festival) and previewed at the opening of the Lumière Film Festival in October 2020.
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