Nicolas Klotz

Known for: Directing
Movies: 40

Nicolas Klotz is a French film director born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Klotz has directed several documentaries profiling musicians, such as sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar, pianist Brad Mehldau, and saxophonist James Carter. After directing two feature-length fiction films for the big screen (La nuit bengali and La nuit sacrée, based on the novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun), he made the film Paria, which depicted the lives of the homeless. He had already addressed this topic in 2000 in a TV movie broadcast on the Arte network: Un Ange en danger.

Best-Known Movies

5.6

Heartbeat Detector

2007

4.8

Low Life

2012

4.3

La nuit sacrée

1993

5.4

The Wound

2005

5.2

Paria

2000

6.6

The Bengali Night

1988

6.0

The Wild Frontier

2018

6.3

Let’s Say Revolution

2021

8.8

Friday the 13th

2016

8.5

Saxifrages, Four White Nights

2021

Filmography

2022	When the House Burns Down	Self - Narrator (voice)
2020	Ça a recommencé, l’émerveillement	L'homme sur la plage
2008	Les amants cinéma	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

2025	ITEM (déroulé)	Director
2023	Cosmocide	Director
2023	New World! (The World Anew)	Director
2022	Song for the Buried City	Director
2022	When the House Burns Down	Director, Writer
2021	The Fire of Antifer (Materials for a Film in Progress)	Director
2021	So Long Michael	Director
2021	Let’s Say Revolution	Director, Writer
2021	Saxifrages, Four White Nights	Producer, Director
2018	Fugitive, Where Are You Running to?	Director
2018	The Wild Frontier	Director, Writer
2016	Friday the 13th	Director
2016	Mata Atlântica	Director
2015	Projet Castellucci	Director
2015	Momies et Mutants	Director
2014	Je Sais Courir Mais Je ne Sais Pas M’enfuir	Director
2014	Ceremony Brazza	Director
2013	Le vent souffle dans la cour d'honneur - Les utopies contemporaines du Festival d'Avignon	Director
2013	Najgo!	Director
2013	Hamlet in Palestine	Director
2013	Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles	Director
2012	Low Life	Writer, Director
2011	Vérité de la démocratie, Jean-Luc Nancy (1,2,3)	Director
2011	Mademoiselle Julie	Director, Producer
2011	Dialogues clandestins Low Life	Director
2007	Heartbeat Detector	Director
2007	La Consolation	Director
2007	La Consolation	Director
2005	Jeunesse d'Hamlet	Director
2005	The Wound	Director, Producer
2004	Ton sourire pas enfoui	Director
2004	Dialogues clandestins 2003-2004	Director
2001	Dialogues clandestins 2001	Director
2001	Ton doux visage	Director
2000	Paria	Director
1993	La nuit sacrée	Director
1988	The Bengali Night	Director, Screenplay

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