Jérôme Le Maire

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Jérôme Le Maire

Jérôme le Maire is a Belgian filmmaker who graduated from the Institut des arts de diffusion (IAD) in 1995. After directing short films (Meilleurs Vœux, Salutations distinguées) and early documentaries (Volter ne m'intéresse pas, Un jour, une vie), he gained international acclaim with several key feature films. ​His 2006 feature documentary, Where is Love in the Palm Grove? (Où est l'amour dans l…

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Love Is in the AirLove Is in the Air · 2005
Love Is in the Air
★ 6.52005
MovieRomanceComedy
Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so airsick since he was born in a plane, that he couldn’t even follow the love of his life when she moved to Australia. Yann is now thirty years old and remembers with both nostalgia and humour the numerous love stories he spoiled because of his phobia. Will he finally accept to become a grown up or will he keep making plans in the air?
The Price of the SunThe Price of the Sun · 2026
The Price of the Sun
2026
MovieDocumentary
When a vast solar park is built in the desert, gradually transforming the landscape, a nomadic Berber tribe is forced to abandon its centuries-old way of life.
Volter ne m'interesse pasVolter ne m'interesse pas · 2001
Volter ne m'interesse pas
2001
MovieDocumentary
The Big TripThe Big Trip · 2011
The Big Trip
★ 6.02011
MovieComedyDrama
An ad-hoc orchestra treks through the woods, strolling and drinking, to the 'Carnaval du Monde' in Stavelot. The drunken procession appeals to them so much that they forget house and home. Like medieval wandering scholars, they travel from fair to village fête. Then their leader says he’ll stop taking drink and drugs. What next?
Burning OutBurning Out · 2016
Burning Out
★ 6.82016
MovieDocumentaryDrama
Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?

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