Directing

Lucile Hadžihalilović

Born May 7, 1961 · Lyon, France (age 65)

Lucile Emina Hadžihalilović is a French writer and director associated with the “New French Extremity” movement. She worked for several years as an editor, often collaborating with director Gaspar Noé, who is her husband. In 2004 she became the first woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival’s annual Bronze Horse award for best film.

Known For

Carne

MovieDramaThriller

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Lux Æterna

Lux Æterna · 2020

MovieDramaThriller

Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and psychotic breakdowns gradually plunge the shoot into a chaos of pure light.

I Stand Alone

I Stand Alone · 1999

MovieDramaThriller

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, the Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.

The Ice Tower

The Ice Tower · 2025

MovieFantasyDrama

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

Evolution

Evolution · 2016

MovieMysteryDrama

11-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt the phases of evolution.

Innocence

Innocence · 2005

MovieDramaMystery

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

Earwig

MovieDramaFantasy

Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave.

Parental Guidance

Parental Guidance · 1997

Parental Guidance

A ten year old girl is received by her aunt because of her mother's confinement to a mental hospital. But the aunt lives with a man, Jean-Pierre, who seems to be a little too nice with the girl.

Filmography

Sort

Carne

MovieDramaThriller

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Editor

Lux Æterna

Lux Æterna · 2020

MovieDramaThriller

Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and psychotic breakdowns gradually plunge the shoot into a chaos of pure light.

Producer

I Stand Alone

I Stand Alone · 1999

MovieDramaThriller

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, the Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.

Producer

The Ice Tower

The Ice Tower · 2025

MovieFantasyDrama

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

Director

Evolution

Evolution · 2016

MovieMysteryDrama

11-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt the phases of evolution.

Director

Innocence

Innocence · 2005

MovieDramaMystery

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

Director

Earwig

MovieDramaFantasy

Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave.

Screenplay

Parental Guidance

Parental Guidance · 1997

Parental Guidance

A ten year old girl is received by her aunt because of her mother's confinement to a mental hospital. But the aunt lives with a man, Jean-Pierre, who seems to be a little too nice with the girl.

Director

Nature

Water, earth, air, fire – and two children at the height of summer.

Director

Saint Laurent: Summer of '21

Saint Laurent: Summer of '21 · 2020

Saint Laurent: Summer of '21

MovieHorrorMystery

At just under 10 minutes, the film brings to life a fusion of pleasure mixed with terror. It begins dark, transporting the viewer into a woodsy scene where it must be close to midnight and who knows what can happen in the middle of nowhere.

Editor

Fight for Us

Fight for Us · 1989

MovieDramaCrime

In 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra, murders a foreign priest who gave the last rites to an alleged rebel, who was also executed by the same group.

Assistant Editor

Nectar

A round chamber in a park, where five women perform a ritual they know well. The queen gives her nectar. Yet a new cycle is already under way.

Director

Limbo Visions 1

Limbo Visions 1 · 2015

Limbo Visions 1

Four filmmakers share a montage of their original ghost images and rushes on a mix of I've seen the future.

Director

Les cinéphiles : Le retour de Jean

Les cinéphiles : Le retour de Jean · 1989

Les cinéphiles : Le retour de Jean

Esther and André are a part of a group of young people. They go to the cinema and speak about it often. They love each other from time to time; the group eventually comes undone. Jean is in fact the only true cinema enthusiast. Coming back from the cinema, he watches TV and thinks that, certainly, the cinema is buried well and truly.

Lucile

La Première Mort de Nono

La Première Mort de Nono · 1987

La Première Mort de Nono

Nono is in love with Raphaël, but he falls ill and leaves him. Hoping to find him there, Nono hangs around in a strange bar where an old man makes advances towards him.

Director

Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu

Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu · 1989

Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu

Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles.

Lucile

Marquis de Slime

Marquis de Slime · 1997

Marquis de Slime

MovieAdventureFantasy

Blond Storm and Black Tempest, two female super-hero wrestlers, found a rock band to fight the Marquis de Slime, an ancient demon, in a gothic and magical Paris.

Editor