Igor Gotesman (Director)

Fiasco

When disaster strikes the set of a first-time director, a behind-the-scenes film crew captures everything as mishaps, blackmail and sabotage ensue.

Release Date2024-04-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Slice

Episode Count7

Vote Count60

Casting(s)

Casting(s) was a French television shortcom created by Pierre Niney and Ali Marhyar, written by Ali Marhyar, Igor Gotesman and Pierre Niney, produced by Hugo Gélin for Zazi Films and broadcast on Canal+ from 2013 to 2015. The episodes revolved around actors rehearsing for different film projects for a casting director. The show also had famous guests such as Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and rappers Orelsan and Nekfeu.

Release Date2013-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Richard

Episode Count40

Vote Count10

Gold Brick

Determined to even the scales and profit from his thankless job, a factory worker schemes to traffic luxury perfumes from under his employer's nose.

Release Date2023-07-06

Charactersd Scania

Vote Count249

Cyrano, My Love

Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.

Release Date2018-11-10

Charactersd Jean Coquelin

Vote Count511

Five

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.

Release Date2016-03-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Vadim

Vote Count1303

A Man in a Hurry

The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he suffers a stroke, which makes him lose his grasp of language and use one word in place of another.

Release Date2018-11-07

Charactersd Vincent

Vote Count312

Like a Prince

Souleyman, 27, a boxing champion in full preparation for the Olympic Games with the French team, sees his future crumble when he cracks the bones of his hand, following a fight in a bar. Souleyman is excluded from the team and is sent to the Château de Chambord, where he must perform his 400 hours of community service (TIG) collecting waste in the gardens.

Release Date2024-01-17

Charactersd Jean-Louis Coton

Vote Count38

Five

In search of adrenaline, four rich childhood friends from the 5th arrondissement of Paris set up a drug trade. Short film that gave origin to the 2016 feature film 'Five'.

Release Date2011-12-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Vad

Vote Count2

Two Lives Plus One

Everyone knows that Eliane Weiss is dedicated in everything she does, from her husband, to her daughter and pupils. But not everyone knows that she longs for more - more time for her, more fun, more thrills. So when she decides to start working on her passion, writing, and incidentally meets an attractive publisher, everyone is taken by surprise. As their seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart, everyone will have to readjust to the new Eliane Weiss.

Release Date2007-10-17

Charactersd Boris

Vote Count8

Shaman

Gorgeously shot in the wide-open Siberian wilderness this outdoor adventure chronicles the dramatic escape of a big-city bred violinist from a Siberian labor camp. Underlying the action is the tale of a man who learns to become one with his environment rather than trying to dominate it. The story begins as enigmatic, Asian tribesman Toli comforts the starved violinist Dimitri that they will be escaping soon. They get their chance when a beautiful herd of Yakut horses begin grazing placidly near where the two are toiling. Sneaking away from the others, they grab tow hand steeds and race off. Unfortunately, Toli is mortally wounded. Just before he dies, he tells Dimitri that he is a powerful shaman and then hands the fiddler a protective amulet. In this way, Toli becomes Dimitri's guardian spirit. The city youth will need all the help he can get as he and his horse must traverse the unforgiving wilds and keep away from guards, alone.

Release Date1996-05-26

Charactersd Dimitri

Vote Count13

Les Baumettes

Chronicles the true story of Jean-Louis Raphel’s attempted escape from Les Baumettes prison in Marseille, France in June 1999.

Release Date2014-10-29

Charactersd Pilot (voice)

Désolée pour hier soir

Release Date2013-06-15

Charactersd Laurent

Family Business

After learning France is about to legalize pot, a down-on-his-luck entrepreneur and his family race to turn their butcher shop into a marijuana café.

Release Date2019-06-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count18

Vote Count132

Young Millionnaires

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Love at Second Sight

A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

Release Date2019-01-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count822

The Scammers

Two friends on a small island in Brittany discover the lottery winner is dead with the winning ticket. They plan a village-wide scam to take his place.

Release Date2024-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count69

The New Kid

Benoît, the new kid at school, is bullied by a gang of arrogant boys. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoît organizes a big party, but only three students turn up. What if this bunch of losers was to be the best gang ever?

Release Date2015-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobCo-Writer

Vote Count197

The Audition

François attends a casting. After a very strange interview, he finds out he is actually at the heart of the mysterious set up in which he is forced to take part...

Release Date2013-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count28

La Nuit de Pierre Niney

Pierre Niney shares his vision of a Parisian night, of his life after dark. Part of a series of 9 short films for Canal +.

Release Date2014-03-03

DepartmentWriting

JobCo-Writer

Sans Rire

DepartmentWriting

JobCo-Writer

Megapolis

In the contemporary metropolis (megapolis), there lives a common incomplete family - Tima, a 5-year-old "man", and his mother, Anna, "a lady in search". They are quite happy together, if it were not gnawing in Anna's heart - she's always seeking for a candidate to marry to. That is why, being at a street fire-show one night, she loses her son in the crowd. Tima falls into hands of juvenile homeless offenders who are making their living by dashing under cars or by blackmail. He becomes a member of their band-family and "a source of income". All that had seemed important to Anna before her son's loss now fades into the background. The only Anna's dream now is to find money for ransom.

Release Date2007-06-25

DepartmentSound

JobOriginal Music Composer

Vote Count1