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Ladj Ly

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 1All crew credits: 18

TMDB ID: 144817

IMDb ID: nm1868177

Known for: Directing

Born: January 3, 1978

Age: 48

Place of birth: Mali

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2001 - 2025

Years active: 25

Average TMDB rating: 6.33

Wikidata: Q65134137

Also known as

래드 리

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Director (8)Producer (4)Screenplay (2)Writer (2)Co-Producer (1)Original Film Writer (1)

Biography

Ladj Ly (born 19 March 1980 in Paris) is a French film director and screenwriter. He won a Jury Prize in Cannes Film Festival for Les Misérables in 2019. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Ly's parents are from Mali and he grew up in Montfermeil, a district of Bosquets. He started making films with his friends Kim Chapiron, Romain Gavras, and JR, in the collective Kourtrajmé. He directed his first films, notably for Oxmo Puccino, and his first documentaries, 365 jours à Clichy-Montfermeil (365 days in Clichy-Montfermeil), filmed after the 2005 French riots; Go Fast Connexion; and 365 jours au Mali (365 days in Mali). In 2011, Ly was given a three-year prison sentence for kidnapping and false imprisonment. In 2012, the sentence was reduced on appeal to two years imprisonment, and one year suspended sentence. Les Misérables is the first non-documentary film he directed. The film received many awards, notably at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and a nomination for the César Award for Best Short Film in 2018. In the same year, he was nominated for the César Award for Best Documentary Film for À voix haute: La Force de la parole with Stéphane de Freitas. In 2018 in Montfermeil, Ly created a free film school, called "L'école Kourtrajmé". Source: Article "Ladj Ly" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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