Philippe Faucon (Directing)
Little is known about Philippe Faucon, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Nismet
To escape her violent stepfather Denis, 16-year-old Nismet decides to flee her home and ends up on the street of her own free will. The teenager has not yet told her mentally unstable mother about the attempts at violence by Denis. Nismet struggles on alone for the time being and is worried when she suddenly can no longer reach Najoua. Has Denis possibly done something to her? Shortly afterwards, the runaway is picked up by the police and placed in a temporary home for children and young people. There she finds a friend in Souad. A juvenile court judge finally wants to find a solution together with Najoua and Denis.
Release Date:2025-02-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Harkis
During the Algerian War (1954-1962), many impoverished young Algerian men, known as "Harkis", volunteered to join the French Army. Salah and Kaddour find themselves under the orders of Lieutenant Pascal. But as the conflict draws to an end, the prospect of independence looms. The outlook for Harkis seems bleak. Lieutenant Pascal confronts his superiors, insisting that every single man in his platoon must be evacuated to France.
Release Date:2022-10-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:15
The Man Who Sold His Skin
To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
Release Date:2021-03-15
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:121
La petite femelle
November, 1953. Pauline Dubuisson is accused of the cold-bloodied murder of her lover Félix. But who exactly is this young woman that the whole of France wants to see convicted? A cold calculating social climber? Or a free spirit, asserting her emancipation before it became fashionable?
Release Date:2021-02-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:14
Amin
Amin has come from Senegal to work in France, leaving behind his wife Aïcha, and their three children. He leads a solitary life in France, where the only space he occupies is his home and the building sites on which he works. Most of his earnings are sent to Senegal. One day, he meets a woman, Gabrielle, and a relationship is born.
Release Date:2018-10-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:35
Proud
"Fiertés" retraces the fight for the rights of sexual minorities in France through the intimate story of three generations and three destinies of men.
Release Date:2018-03-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:8
Fatima
Fatima, an Algerian-born woman who now lives in France with her two teenage daughters, with whom she is barely able to communicate.
Release Date:2015-10-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:119
La Désintégration
Three young men meet Djamel (Yassine Azzouz), a charismatic manipulator, who turns the three friends against society.
Release Date:2012-02-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:21
Making-off
Students' team shoot a short film. Tensions, nearness, funny situations created by the plateau. A game of hide-and-seek takes place between the life, the reality, the artistic intentions, the fatigue, the stress and the paranoias which are connected to him.
Release Date:2009-01-01
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Dans la vie
Elie is at a loss. His mother, Esther, is ill and needs constant assistance but doesn't like any of the carers that come forward. Seeing his distress, the nurse Sélima proposes the services of her mother, Halima, a practising Muslim. Against all the odds, the two women become firm friends.
Release Date:2007-09-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Elie
Vote Count:1
The Betrayal
This film about the Algerian war shown at the April-May 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival was also currently on view in theaters in France.
Release Date:2005-09-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Samia
Samia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the southern French town of Marseilles. Although lured by the pleasures and opportunities that contemporary Western culture offers her, Samia is continually restrained by her family. Naturally, they expect her to follow their traditions to the letter and, for a woman, this means staying at home all day looking after their men folk. In the end, Samia has no option but to rebel against her family and find a new life for herself…
Release Date:2000-11-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
The Strangers
April 1995. When Selim, a young Marseillais of Algerian origin, tells his parents that he is homosexual, they reject him. Called to the flag, he decides to become a blue helmet in Bosnia.
Release Date:2000-09-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Love Reinvented
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.
Release Date:1997-06-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Love Reinvented
Release Date:1996-12-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Being Seventeen
A French television film directed by Philippe Faucon, released in 1996 on France 2 as part of the collection "Les Mercredis de la vie."
Release Date:1996-06-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
All Is Not Black
In this short two young black men live together in France. When one decides that he's pregnant and the craving that he has for caviar must be satisfied, his lover goes in search. While he may not be pregnant he does reward his boyfriend upon his return for being such a good provider.
Release Date:1996-05-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
In this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for the bright lights of Paris. When she falls for Nora, Muriel enters a journey of heartbreak and discovery.
Release Date:1995-10-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Sabine
A young girl is deprived of her baby: her descent into hell begins. Still in high-school, Agnès leaves her alcoholic father, finds a boyfriend and gets pregnant. Giving birth to a baby boy, deprived of him by her her stepmother, left by her boyfriend, she find shelter by junkies friends and subsequently turns to prostitution under the name Sabine only to become HIV-positive. In her diary, the young woman recounts her fight against the disease without ever sinking into despair.
Release Date:1993-03-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
L'amour
In a suburb of Paris, a group of teenagers enjoys the last days of summer vacation. They meet in cafes, restaurants or disco, talking about first love, experiences, disappointments and jealousy. Sandrine tries to figure out if she should keep her boyfriend Didier or try with silent Joel, whom she's just met. Riri, Alex and Paulo desperately try to get laid.
Release Date:1990-07-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
Émancipée
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1