Biography
Born in Marmande, the undissociable pair Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma have been passionate about cinema since childhood. After studying at La Cité du Cinéma in Paris, they co-directed Willy the 1st with Hugo P. Thomas and Marielle Gautier. Presented at ACID in Cannes in 2016, the debut feature later won the Prix d’Ornano-Valenti, an award honoring a first film, at the Deauville American Film Festival. In 2019, they directed Teddy, a genre film that received the Cannes 2020 Label. The following year, they shot the horror-comedy Year of the Shark, starring Marina Foïs and Jean-Pascal Zadi, before being approached by Hugo Sélignac and Alain Attal for the adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu’s novel Leurs enfants après eux (And Their Children After Them), which won the Prix Goncourt 2018. The film was presented in Competition at the Venice Film Festival 2024, where Paul Kircher, one of the leads, was awarded the Marcello-Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor.
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News & awards
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Awards (1)
MyFrenchFilmFestival
Unspecified country, 2018
Special Mention from the Directors Jury : Willy the 1st