Ladj Ly

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 parol…

Directed

1. Les Misérables (2019) — Director
2. Speak Up (2017) — Director
3. Les Indésirables (2023) — Director
4. Les Misérables (2017) — Director
5. Homemade (2020) — Director
6. Infrarouge (2006) — Director
7. 365 jours à Clichy Montfermeil (2006) — Director
8. Go Fast Connexion (2008) — Director
9. The Clichy-Montfermeil Chronicles (2017) — Director
10. Dumas: Black Devil (2027) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The World Is Yours (2018) — Paoudré
2. Satan (2006) — Ladj
3. Our Day Will Come (2010) — Jeune noir tchat vidéo
4. Making Athena (2022) — Self
5. Paper & Glue (2021) — Self
6. #JR (2018) — Self
7. Easy Pizza Riderz (2002)
8. Les Bosquets (2015)
9. Beau geste (2023) — Self
10. Tarubi, l'arabe strait 2 (2001)
11. Le Chat d'la grand mère d'Abdel Krim (2003)