Sira
dir. Apolline Traoré, Fiction, Burkina Faso/ France, 2023
Panorama Audience award for best feature film at Berlinale 2023, Burkinabé entry for Best international feature film at the Oscars.
Career
French editor and director
Sylvie Gadmer Tiên 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.
Filmography
editor
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dir. Mila Turajicé, documentary, Serbia/France/Croatia/Montenegro/Qatar, 2022
Sow the wind
dir. Danilo Caputo, Italy/France/ Greece, Fiction, 91’
Panorama selection, Berlinale 2020
May impure blood
dir. Abdel Raouf Dafri, France, 2019, 109'
Knock
dir. Lorraine Levy, fiction, France, 2017, 114'
The final lesson
dir. Pascal Pouzadoux, fiction, France, 2015, 105'
Fils de caïn
dir. Marcell Gero, documentary, France, 2014, 104'
The Rooftops
dir. Merzak Allouache, Fiction, France / Algeria, 2013, 94'
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival, 2013
The other son
dir. Lorraine Levy, fiction, France, 2011, 110'
Grand prize and best director prize, Tokyo International Film Festival
L’amour c’est mieux à deux
dir. Dominique Farrugia and Arnaud Lemort, fiction, France, 2009, 95'
Alpe d’Huez festival, Out of competition, 2010
Luon Ben con
dir. Kim Hai, documentary, Vietnam, 2009
Best documentary prize at Hanoi Film Festival, 2010, 70'
Changing sides
dir. Pascale Pouzadoux, fiction, France, 2008, 93'
Dawn of the world
dir. Abbas Fahdel, France / Irak, 2008, 95'
Public prize and NETAPC prize, Cinema of Asia, Vesoul, 2008; First prize, Gulf Festival, Dubaï
Sagan
dir. Diane Kurys, fiction, France, 2007, 117'
Le Candidat
dir. Niels Arestrup, fiction, France, 2005, 95'
Copenhagen festival, 2007
Valley of flowers
dir. Pan Nalin, fiction, Germany/France, 2005, 155'
Grand jury prize, IFFLA, Los Angeles, 2007
Chouchou
dir. Merzak Allouache, fiction, France, 2002, 105'
The other world
Merzak Allouache, fiction, France/Algeria, 2001, 95'
Truth and reconciliation commission
dir. Andre Van In, documentary, 1999, 2 x 60'
Marcorelles and library prize, cinema du reel, Paris, 1999; Grand Prize, SCAM, France, 2000; Grand Prize, Bombay Film Festival, 2001
Agustin
dir. Anne Fontaine, fiction, France, 1994, 61'
Un certain regard, Cannes Film Festival, 1995
Les histoires d’amour finissent mal… en général
dir. Anne Fontaine, fiction, France, 1992, 85'
Jean Vigo prize (1993) ; Semaine de la critique, Cannes Film Festival (1993)
director
Les gardiens des monts de la lune
Documentary, France, 2016, 87’
Visions du Réel (Nyon, 2017)
23. Quand on navigue sur un fleuve, on doit en suivre les méandre
documentary, 1997, 52'
Amiens Film festival ; Traces de vies, Clermont Ferrand film festival ; Train of immigration Festival (Paris)
Lepre, Lepra, Leprae
documentary, 1995, 46’
L’escalade
fiction, 1983
Laon Film Festival
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