François Margolin
François Margolin, born on the 29th of March 1957, alumnus from FEMIS (French National Film School), combines the hats of writer, director and producer. He directed Mensonge in 1994, with Nathalie Baye, The Opium of the Talibans in 2001 and Les Petits Soldats (about Child Soldiers in Liberia) in 2005. His first short movie, Elle et Lui, won the famous Jean Vigo Prize. His work as a producer won him to work with prestigious directors like Raoul Ruiz (Nucingen House, Dias de Campo), Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Flight of the Red Balloon), Raymond Depardon (Empty Quarter, une Femme en Afrique), Olivier Assayas (Boarding Gate) or Costa Gavras and Abbas Kiarostami for the omnibus documentary À propos de Nice, la suite. In 1986 he created the production company of Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris and worked as a journalist during the eighties for Liberation and L’Express, in Africa and Afghanistan. He published a successful book about the Black Jews of Ethiopia, We were the only Jews in the World, in 2008.
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- Born29 March 1957 (age 68)
- Place of BirthParis, France
François Margolin
- Known ForProduction
- Born29 March 1957 (age 68)
- Place of BirthParis, France
Sarah Halimi: An Anti-Semitic and Unpunished Crime
2023

Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
2023

L'automne à Pyongyang, un portrait de Claude Lanzmann
2023

Slava Ukraini
2023

Sons of Cain
2021

Dirty Lands
2021

The Battle of Mosul
2017

Napalm
2017

Jihadists
2016

Peshmerga
2016

Death in Sarajevo
2016

The Art Dealer
2015

Ballet aquatique
2012

Nucingen House
2009

Secrets
2008

Flight of the Red Balloon
2007

Boarding Gate
2007

Days in the Country
2004

Les petits soldats
2004

OAS, Une histoire interdite
2003
The Pilgrimage of Students and Jacob
2000

Concerning Nice
1995

Mensonge
1993
