Paolo Trotta

Activities : Director, Assistant Director, Selection committee, Line Producer, Screenwriter

Events

Selection committee : Directors' Fortnight

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (11 films)

Reality (2012) Director : Matteo Garrone Actors : Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone, Graziella Marina, Claudia Gerini... Associate producer : Backup Films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : In the heart of Naples, Luciano is an exuberant, entertaining family man who never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives. One day, urged on by his children, he reluctantly tries out for a...

That Summer (2011) Director : Philippe Garrel Actors : Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Jérôme Robart, Adeline Guillot, Vladislav Galard... Associate production company : Rectangle Productions Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Paul meets Frédéric through a mutual friend. Frédéric is a painter. He lives with Angèle, a movie actress who’s making a film in Italy. To get by until he becomes an actor, Paul works as an extra. On set he meets Elisabeth, who’s...

Chantrapas (2010) Director : Otar Iosseliani Actors : Dato Tarielashvili-Iosseliani, Bulle Ogier, Pierre Etaix, Tamuna Karumidze, Fanny Gonin Associate production company : Pierre Grise Productions Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Nicolas is an artist, a filmmaker who merely wants to express himself, and whom everyone else wants to keep him silent. When he first starts out in Georgia, the "ideologues" want to gag him, concerned that his work does not...

Black Out (2008) Director : Jean-Christophe Klotz Actors : Jalil Lespert, Cyril Gueï, Patrick Rameau, Jean-François Stévenin, Philippe Nahon... Associate production company : Les Films du Poisson Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Paris, April 1994.Antoine Rives, an independent journalist, shoots a reportage about people returning from Rwanda after the massacres there. He encounters Clément, a Rwandan student of Hutu origin whose Tutsi fiancee, Alice, has...

Jellyfish (2007) Directors : Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen Actors : Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Knoller, Ma-nenita De Latorre... Associate production company : Les Films du Poisson Genres : Fiction Synopsis : The story of three women in Tel Aviv today. Three stories of a solitary quest for happiness that interweave and pivot around a beach in Tel Aviv, the main setting that inspires and absorbs the characters. A satire full of humor,...

Candidat (Le) (2007) Director : Niels Arestrup Actors : Niels Arestrup, Yvan Attal, Clotilde Bayser (de), Sophie Broustal, Cyril Couton... Associate production company : ADR Productions Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Shortly before the presidential election in a European state, Michel Dedieu has had to stand in at a moment’s notice for his party’s candidate, whose rapidly progressing cancer has obliged him to withdraw. The day after the first...