Sylvie Gadmer Tiến
Director | Editor | Instructor
Sylvie Gadmer Tiến discovered documentary filmmaking with the Ateliers Varan in 1996 during a mission to Cambodia. Since 2004 she has co-founded and been in charge of the Ateliers Varan Vietnam, subsequently directed by André Van In, before Varan Vietnam was founded by former workshop participants.
She completed a degree in cinema from the Sorbonne Nouvelle university and worked as a script and assistant director before pursuing a career as film editor, from 1998.
She has worked with directors such as Merzak Allouache, Dominique Farrugia, Diane Kurys, Lorraine Levy, Pascale Pouzadoux, Anne Fontaine and André Van In.
She runs introductory courses in documentary filmmaking at the Ateliers Varan in Paris, Phnom Penh and Hanoi. She has also directed several documentaries, including Les gardiens des Monts de la Lune, based on Sabrina Krief’s work with a community of wild chimpanzees.
KNOW FOR
Sira
(dir. Apolline Traoré, Fiction, Burkina Faso/ France, 2023)
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Panorama Audience award for best feature film at Berlinale 2023, Burkinabé entry for Best international feature film at the Oscars.
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(dir. Mila Turajicé, Documentary)
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Premiere: Serbia/France/Croatia/Montenegro/Qatar, 2022
Sow the wind
(dir. Danilo Caputo, Fiction, 91’)
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Premiere: Italy/France/ Greece
Panorama selection, Berlinale 2020
May impure blood
(dir. Abdel Raouf Dafri, 109’)
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Premiere: France, 2019
Knock
(dir. Lorraine Levy, fiction, 114′)
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Premiere: France, 2017
The final lesson
(dir. Pascal Pouzadoux, fiction, 105′)
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Premiere: France, 2015
Fils de caïn
(dir. Marcell Gero, documentary, 104′)
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Premiere: France, 2014
FThe Rooftops
(dir. Merzak Allouache, Fiction, 94′)
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Premiere: France / Algeria, 2013 / Official Selection Venice International Film Festival, 2013
The other son
(dir. Lorraine Levy, fiction, 110′)
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Premiere: France, 2011 / Grand prize and best director prize, Tokyo International Film Festival
L’amour c’est mieux à deux
(dir. Dominique Farrugia and Arnaud Lemort, fiction, 95′)
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Premiere: France, 2009/ Alpe d’Huez festival, Out of competition, 2010
Luon Ben con
(dir. Kim Hai, documentary, 70′)
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Premiere: Vietnam, 2009/ Best documentary prize at Hanoi Film Festival, 2010
Changing sides
(dir. Pascale Pouzadoux, fiction, 93′)
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Premiere: France, 2008
Dawn of the world
(dir. Abbas Fahdel, 95′)
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Premiere: France / Irak, 2008 / Public prize and NETAPC prize, Cinema of Asia, Vesoul, 2008; First prize, Gulf Festival, Dubaï
Sagan
(dir. Diane Kurys, fiction, 117′)
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Premiere: France, 2007
Le Candidat
(dir. Niels Arestrup, fiction, 95′)
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Premiere: France, 2005 / Copenhagen festival, 2007
Valley of flowers
(dir. Pan Nalin, fiction, 155′)
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Premiere: Germany/France, 2005 / Grand jury prize, IFFLA, Los Angeles, 2007
Chouchou
(dir. Merzak Allouache, fiction, 105′)
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Premiere: France, 2002
The other world
(dir.Merzak Allouache, fiction, 95′)
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Premiere: France/Algeria, 2001
The other world
(dir.Merzak Allouache, fiction, 95′)
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Premiere: France/Algeria, 2001
Agustin
(dir. Anne Fontaine, fiction, 61′
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Premiere: France, 1994 / Un certain regard, Cannes Film Festival, 1995
Les histoires d’amour finissent mal… en général
(dir. Anne Fontaine, fiction, 85′)
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Premiere: France, 1992 / Jean Vigo prize (1993) ; Semaine de la critique, Cannes Film Festival (1993)
Les gardiens des monts de la lune
(Documentary, 87’)
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Premiere: France, 2016 / Visions du Réel (Nyon, 2017)
Quand on navigue sur un fleuve, on doit en suivre les méandre
(Documentary, 52′)
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Premiere: 1997 / Amiens Film festival ; Traces de vies, Clermont Ferrand film festival ; Train of immigration Festival (Paris)
Lepre, Lepra, Leprae
Documentary, 46’)
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Premiere: 1995
L’escalade
| (Fiction)
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Premiere: 1983 / Laon Film Festival