Public Writer

Sarah Maldoror interviews women of different nationalities who serve as “public” writers, linking French administrative bodies with people who cannot speak or write French.

The Writer

Joe, a young writer, embarks on writing his second book after the runaway success of his first. But Joe is quickly overwhelmed by the remarks of those close to him, remarks that will eventually obsess him until he can no

L'écrivain

In the 1960s, in a cabin in the middle of the forest, a writer is harassed by a television producer who wants to force him to submit his latest script. But there's something the producer doesn't know...

Writer of O

Published in Paris in 1954, Story of O was an immediate bestseller and literary scandal: an elegantly written S&M fantasy that had all the hallmarks of being an autobiographical account by the pseudonymous Pauline Ré

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma

L'ÉCRIVAIN

A short film by Jasper Kirkpatrick-Navarre. Follows an aspiring writer called Jean-Luc.

Pierre Klossowski, un écrivain en images

Portrait of french author and painter Pierre Klossowski

The Last Writer

Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.

L'Écrivain de la famille

The Blind Writer

This was made without looking at the drawings during the animation. A challenge that materializes the writer's perplexity: in a world of "communication", what does "seeing" mean?

Through the writer's mirror

In a small office cluttered with books and other detritus of the writer's life, filmmaker Alexandre Westphal and the writer Percival Everett explore his work. Archival images are projected onto the walls, invading the sp

Moi, Magyd Cherfi : portrait intimiste d'un chanteur devenu écrivain

Marcel Proust - Une vie d'écrivain

Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dissects the ruthless mechanisms of the Shoah from the detached point of view of Maximilian Aue, a high-ranking Nazi office

Luis Sepúlveda, l'écrivain du bout du monde

Sur les traces d'Henry de Monfreid - Écrivain et pirate de la mer Rouge

The Writer and the Murderer: The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère

In 1993, Jean-Claude Romand murdered his entire family, shattering a lifetime of lies. Fascinated by the case from the beginning, French writer Emmanuel Carrère reviews the painful gestation of the book he dedicated to i

Imposture

A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own.

Write and Fight

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband.

Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection

An upbeat and humorous account of the hard life under police protection led by Italian writer Roberto Saviano since the publication in 2006 of Gomorrah, his controversial book about the Camorra, the ruthless organization