Jérôme Le Maire

Directing

Jérôme Le Maire

Place of birth

Liège, Belgium

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Jérôme le Maire is a Belgian filmmaker who graduated from the Institut des arts de diffusion (IAD) in 1995. After directing short films (Meilleurs Vœux, Salutations distinguées) and early documentaries (Volter ne m'intéresse pas, Un jour, une vie), he gained international acclaim with several key feature films. ​His 2006 feature documentary, Where is Love in the Palm Grove? (Où est l'amour dans la palmeraie ?), was shot over two years in southern Morocco to explore love and relationships, screening at over 30 festivals including Visions du Réel and RIDM. In 2011, he released The Grand Tour (Le Grand'Tour), a fiction feature co-written with Vincent Solheid about a group of friends whose week…

Known for

Love Is in the Air poster
6.5

Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so airsick since he was born in a plane, that he couldn’t even follow the love of his life when she moved to Australia. Yann is now thirty years old and remembers with both nostalgia and humour the numerous love stories he spoiled because of his phobia. Will he finally accept to become a grown up or will he keep making plans in the air?

Love Is in the Air

2005

The Price of the Sun poster
NR

When a vast solar park is built in the desert, gradually transforming the landscape, a nomadic Berber tribe is forced to abandon its centuries-old way of life.

The Price of the Sun

2026

Burning Out poster
6.8

Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?

Burning Out

2016

The Big Trip poster
6.0

An ad-hoc orchestra treks through the woods, strolling and drinking, to the 'Carnaval du Monde' in Stavelot. The drunken procession appeals to them so much that they forget house and home. Like medieval wandering scholars, they travel from fair to village fête. Then their leader says he’ll stop taking drink and drugs. What next?

The Big Trip

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Où est l'Amour dans la palmeraie ?

2006

Volter ne m'interesse pas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Volter ne m'interesse pas

2001

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Price of the Sun poster
NR

When a vast solar park is built in the desert, gradually transforming the landscape, a nomadic Berber tribe is forced to abandon its centuries-old way of life.

The Price of the Sun

2026

Burning Out poster
6.8

Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?

Burning Out

2016

Burning Out poster
6.8

Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?

Burning Out

2016

The Big Trip poster
6.0

An ad-hoc orchestra treks through the woods, strolling and drinking, to the 'Carnaval du Monde' in Stavelot. The drunken procession appeals to them so much that they forget house and home. Like medieval wandering scholars, they travel from fair to village fête. Then their leader says he’ll stop taking drink and drugs. What next?

The Big Trip

2011

The Big Trip poster
6.0

An ad-hoc orchestra treks through the woods, strolling and drinking, to the 'Carnaval du Monde' in Stavelot. The drunken procession appeals to them so much that they forget house and home. Like medieval wandering scholars, they travel from fair to village fête. Then their leader says he’ll stop taking drink and drugs. What next?

The Big Trip

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Où est l'Amour dans la palmeraie ?

2006

Volter ne m'interesse pas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Volter ne m'interesse pas

2001

No artwork available
7.0

Tea or electricity tells the epic story of the implementation of electricity in a tiny isolated village enclosed in the middle of the Moroccan High Atlas.Over more than three years and season after season, the director patiently reveals the outlines of the net that will inevitably end up closing on the people of Morocco. Before our eyes is draft the image of the merciless modernity that the small village will now be connected to.

Tea or Electricity

2012