Directing
Community Rating
6.6
TMDB estimate
Born
January 3, 1978 (age 48)
Born in
Mali
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.
Dumas: Black Devil
as Director, Writer
2027

Short cuts : Ladj Ly's Les Misérables
as Original Film Writer
2025

Les Indésirables
as Director, Screenplay
2023

Hood Witch
as Producer
2023

Mercy
as Screenplay
2023

Beau geste
as Self
2023

Making Athena
as Self
2022

Athena
as Screenplay, Producer
2022

Five-O
as Producer
2022

Paper & Glue
as Himself
2021

Fake News
as Co-Producer
2021

Dans ma forêt de ciment
as Producer
2021

Narvalos
as Producer
2021

Homemade
as Writer, Producer, Director
2020

Les Misérables
as Director, Writer
2019

#JR
as Self
2018

The World Is Yours
as Paoudré
2018

The Clichy-Montfermeil Chronicles
as Director
2017

Speak Up
as Director
2017

Les Misérables
as Director, Writer
2017