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François Ozon was born in 1967 in Paris. With his master's degree in Cinema (Paris I), he enters the French famous school of cinema La FEMIS in the director section in 1990.Since then, he has been shooting many movies in super-8, video, 16mm and 35mm . Many of his short movies have been in competition in various international festivals.Action Vérité (Truth or Dare) is the beginning of his collaboration with Fidélité Productions.
Une Robe d'été (A Summer Dress) gets the "Léopard de Demain" Award at the film festival of Locarno. Sitcom, his first feature, is in competition in the Official Selection of "La Semaine Internationale de la critique" (International Week of Film Critic) in the Cannes Festival in 1998.
 
x2000

X2000 (1998)35mm, color, 6 mn

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Synopsis:
The day after the New Year's eve in 2000.

Screenplay and director: François Ozon
Cinematographer: Pierre Stroeber
Sound: Benoît Hillebrant
Editor: Dominique Petrot
Cast: Denise Schropfer-Aron, Bruno Slagmulder, Olivier and Lionel Le Guevellou, Lucia Sanchez, Flavien Coupeau
Production: Fidélité Productions and Canal Plus

scenes de lit

Bed Scenes (1997) 35mm, color, 26 mn

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Synopsis:
Six visions about the relationships between men and women...in bed.

Screenplay and director: François Ozon
Cinematographers: Yorick Le Saux, Matthieu Vadepied
Cast: Valérie Druguet, Camille Japy, Lucia Sanchez, François Delaive
Production: Local Films

Festivals of Valenciennes, Nancy, St-Denys. Quality Prize (CNC).

une robe d'ete

A Summer Dress (1996) 35mm, color, 15 mn

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Synopsis:
Two young men in love are on holidays. One of them is about to be tempted by a sexual intercourse...with a woman.

Screenplay and director: François Ozon
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Sound: Benoît Hillebrant
Editor: Jeanne Moutard
Cast: Frédéric Mangenot, Lucia Sanchez, Sébastien Charles
Production: Fidélité Productions

Song heard in the film: "Bang Bang" sung by Sheila.

Festivals of Mamers (Great Prize), Semaine de la critique in Cannes, Pantin (Public Prize), Short-films Prize 96, Grenoble (Great Prize), Dunkerque, Locarno (Leopard de Demain Award), Genève (Great Prize), British short film, Montpellier, Brest (Great Prize), Dublin (Best short film director), Aix-en-Provence, Vélizy, Tampere, Turin. Nominated to the Césars 97. Quality Prize (CNC).

la petite mort

The Little Death (1995) 35mm, color, 26 mn

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Synopsis:
Paul, a young man, having a passion for photography, has been at odds with his father since his sweet boyhood. Camille, his sister, comes to tell him that their father has fallen seriously sick and tries to make them be reconciled.

Director: François Ozon
Screenplay: François Ozon, Didier Blasco
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Editor: Frédéric Massiot
Designer: Juliette Cheneau
Cast: François Delaive, Camille Japy, Martial Jacques, Michel Beaujard
Production: Fidélité Productions

Festivals of Grenoble (Great Prize), Villeurbanne, Rennes, Clermont-Ferrand, Lille, Yokohoma, Londres. Quality price (CNC).

Truth or Dare (1994) 35mm, color, 4 mn

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Synopsis:
Two boys and two girls play " truth or dare", everything is possible... even in the cruelty.

Screenplay, editor and director: François Ozon
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Sound: Benoît Hillebrant
Cast: Fabien Billet, Adrien Pastor, Farida Rahmatoullah, Aylin Argun
Production: Fidélité productions

Festivals of Mamers, Nevers, Château-Arnoux, Pégasse (Great Prize). Quality price (CNC).
Prix du syndicat de la critique in 1995.

A Rose Between Us (1994) 35mm, color, 27 mn

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Director: François Ozon
Screenplay: François Ozon, Nicolas Mercier
Cinematographer: Sylvia Calle
Sound: Benoît Hillebrant
Editor: Sylvie Ballyot
Cast: Sasha Hails, Rodolphe Lesage, Christophe Heman, Jacques Disses, Francis Arnaud, Gilles Frilay
Production: Femis

Festivals of Pantin, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Angers, First films meeting, Kiev, New York, Tel Aviv, Cergy. Jury prize and public prize BNP.

Victor (1993) 35mm, color, 14 mn

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Synopsis:
Victor, a young man of good breeding keeps his dead parents in their bedroom. Then begins a rebirth full of discoveries in the sumptuous family cottage.

Director: François Ozon
Screenplay: François Ozon, Nicolas Mercier
Cinematographer: Sylvia Calle
Sound: Benoît Hillebrant
Editor: Thierry Bordes
Cast: François Genty, Isabelle Journeau, Jean-Jacques Forbin, Laurent Labasse, Martine Erhel
Production: Femis

Festivals of Clermont-Ferrand, Tübingen, Postdam, Château-Arnoux, Montluçon, l'Etrange Festival Paris, Cergy-Pontoise

Reconstructed Thomas (1992) video, color, 10 mn

Screenplay and director: François Ozon
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Sound: Benoît Hillebrant
Editor: Cécile Chagnaud
Cast: François Delaive, Gilles Brochard, Martine Erhel, Gilles Frilay, Jean-Philippe Labadie

1991:

Une goutte de sang (10 min / video)

Peau contre peau (les risques inutiles) (8 min / video / documentaire)

Le trou madame (10 min / video / documentary)

Deux plus un (9 min / 16mm)

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