Pierre Carles

Biography

Pierre Carles was born in 1962 in Gironde. He spent part of his childhood and adolescence in Chile and Colombia with his mother, a teacher in French schools. He returned to France in the late 1970s and studied socio-cultural animation, then journalism. He worked in television from 1988, first as a news cameraman for France 3 Régions, then as a columnist or author of humorous subjects in variety shows (TF1, France 2, Canal +, M6). From 1993, he made short documentaries for the Belgian-French show Strip-tease (France 3) and for the magazine Brut (ARTE). In 1998, he created a production company in Montpellier, with around ten audiovisual and cinema workers involved in the production of his first feature film, Pas vu pas pris, including producer Annie Gonzalez. From 1998 to 2020, he directed or co-directed around ten feature-length documentaries for the cinema, which deal with media criticism (Pas vu pas pris, 1998; Enfin pris?, 2002; Fin de concession, 2010; Les Ânes ont soif, 2004), the questioning of wage labor and the possibility of living differently (Attention danger travail, 2003; Volem rien foutre al païs, 2007), armed struggle (Ni vieux, ni traîtres, 2006)... He is also the…

Directed

1. Sociology Is a Martial Art (2001) — Director
2. Attention danger travail (2003) — Director
3. Not Seen, Not Caught (1998) — Director
4. Enfin pris ? (2002) — Director
5. Hollande, DSK, etc ... (2012) — Director
6. Volem rien foutre al païs (2007) — Director
7. Fin de concession (2010) — Director
8. Choron dernière (2009) — Director
9. Juppé, forcément... (1995) — Director
10. Un berger et deux perchés à l'Elysée ? (2019) — Director
11. Neither Old Nor Traitors (2006) — Director
12. Les Ânes ont soif (2015) — Director
13. On a mal à la dette (2015) — Director
14. The Abdallah Case (2026) — Director
15. The Farc Guerilla, a History of the Future (2024) — Director
16. On revient de loin (2016) — Director
17. Gébé on arrête tout, on réfléchit (2020) — Director
18. Le Rond-Point de la colère (2020) — Director
19. Tant pis tant mieux (2020) — Director
20. Bages-Sigean à la rame (2007) — Director
21. Charlie Hebdo se fait Hara Kiri (2008) — Director
22. Pas vu à la télé (1995) — Director
23. 10 Petits films pour « Strip-Tease » — Director
24. La Vache et le Député (2017) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Aaltra (2004) — Doctor
2. Sociology Is a Martial Art (2001) — Self
3. Not Seen, Not Caught (1998) — Self
4. Enfin pris ? (2002) — Self
5. Volem rien foutre al païs (2007) — Himself
6. Fin de concession (2010) — Pierre Carles
7. Neither Old Nor Traitors (2006) — Themselves
8. Les Ânes ont soif (2015)
9. The Abdallah Case (2026) — Self
10. Nino (Une adolescence imaginaire de Nino Ferrer) (2012) — L'imprésario