Nicolas Philibert

Biography

Nicolas Philibert (French: [filibɛʁ]; born 10 January 1951) is a French documentary filmmaker. He has directed films since 1978. At the 73rd Berlinale (2023), he receives the Golden Bear for his film "On the Adamant". Philibert's father was a film lecturer and he attended his talks in his youth. This encouraged him to embark on a film career. He started this with René Allio (1970), as a trainee on Les Camisards as an assistant on Rude Journée pour la reine (1973) and assistant-director on Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère... (1975). In 1978 he co-directed with Gérard Mordillat a feature documentary His Master's Voice, in which a dozen bosses of big industrial groups discuss power, leadership, hierarchies and the role of unions. Between 1985 and 1987, he made several films about mountains and adventure for TV, then turned to making feature-length documentaries for theatrical distribution: La Ville Louvre (1990), Le Pays des sourds (1992), Un animal, des animaux (1995), La Moindre des choses (1996) - at the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, as well as an experimental film with the pupils of the theatre school Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Qui sait? (199…

Directed

1. To Be and to Have (2002) — Director
2. On the Adamant (2023) — Director
3. La Maison de la Radio (2013) — Director
4. Each and Every Moment (2018) — Director
5. In the Land of the Deaf (1992) — Director
6. Every Little Thing (1997) — Director
7. Louvre City (1990) — Director
8. Nénette (2010) — Director
9. Back to Normandy (2007) — Director
10. The Typewriter and Other Headaches (2024) — Director
11. Animals and More Animals (1994) — Director
12. His Master's Voice (1978) — Director
13. At Averroes & Rosa Parks (2024) — Director
14. Who Knows? (1999) — Director
15. Trilogy for One Man (1987) — Director
16. Christophe (1985) — Director
17. The North Face of the Camembert (1985) — Director
18. Baquet's Comeback (1988) — Director
19. Emmanuelle Laborit, Sign Shards (2002) — Director
20. Les Carnets De L'Aventure (1977) — Director
21. Go Ahead, Baby! (1988) — Director
22. The Invisible (2002) — Director
23. Metamorphosis of a Building (1994) — Director
24. France Culture au Festival d'Avignon: 'Forcenés' (2013) — Director
25. What Drives the Taxidermist (2002) — Director
26. The Screening (2010) — Director
27. La nuit du court 2011 (2011) — Director
28. The Measure of the Feat (1987) — Director
29. Family Portraits (1994) — Director
30. Nénette, orang-outan de Bornéo (2009) — Director
31. Y'a quelqu'un? (2018) — Director
32. In the Skin of a Badger (1994) — Director
33. No Problem (1986) — Director
34. Joël comme Collado (2013) — Director
35. Pour Catherine (1995) — Director
36. Patrons 78-91 (1991) — Director
37. Nénette's Birthday (2020) — Director
38. Night Falls on the Menagerie (2010) — Director
39. Patrons - Télévision (1979) — Director
40. And How Are Things with You? (1989) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The French Calvinists (1972)
2. Back to Normandy (2007) — Himself
3. Télématin (1985) — Self
4. Quelle époque ! (2022) — Self - Guest
5. Nicolas Philibert, Hasard et Nécessité (2020)
6. Joseph Morder filme le défilé du Premier Mai (2012)
7. Not Like Before (2005) — Self
8. Ouvertures faciles (1999)
9. Le Cercle (2005) — Self