Christophe Cotteret

Directing

Christophe Cotteret

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Christophe Cotteret is a French filmmaker and theater director known for his politically engaged documentaries and his sustained exploration of contemporary Middle Eastern and African sociopolitical movements. His work, marked by a deep attention to historical nuance and on-the-ground testimony, has been widely screened internationally and praised for its clarity, complexity, and rigor. Originally a stage director until 2010, Cotteret lived in Beirut from 2002 to 2006. In the aftermath of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, he initiated Projet Liban, an ambitious cycle of four documentary-theater productions presented across Belgium, France, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, and Jordan. Thi…

Known for

Disunited Nations poster
8.4

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, had already labelled events in Gaza a genocide back in March 2024. Following her lead, this piece takes us deep into the heart of the institution’s crisis, as it struggles with its inability to stop the massacre of civilians.

Disunited Nations

2025

White Power: Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement poster
5.8

An analysis of the rise of the European far-right, increasingly present in both politics and everyday life: an inquisitive journey through France, Germany and Belgium.

White Power: Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement

2024

Daech, le dilemme de la justice poster
NR

What should we do of former jihadists returning to the country, who have been fed on radical ideologies and extreme violence for the past five years?

Daech, le dilemme de la justice

2019

Inkotanyi poster
6.0

For the first time, light is shed on the Inkotanyi politico-military movement that ended the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi in 1994 and is led by Paul Kagame, currently President of Rwanda.

Inkotanyi

2017

13 novembre 2015 : anatomie d'une instruction poster
8.0

On November 13, 2015, ten months after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher at the Porte de Vincennes, three jihadist commandos, divided between the Stade de France, the Bataclan and the terraces of the 10th and 11th districts of Paris, spread death in the capital. How were these men, mostly French and Belgian, some of them actively sought, able to cross Europe and carry out their plans without being worried? Faced with the loopholes revealed by the attacks, fourteen European countries, supported by Europol and Eurojust, the EU's police and judicial cooperation agencies, pooled information and resources on an unprecedented scale to identify and track down the culprits, accomplices and sponsors of these attacks.

13 novembre 2015 : anatomie d'une instruction

2022

Démocratie Année Zéro poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Démocratie Année Zéro

2014

Film credits

Behind the camera

Disunited Nations poster
8.4

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, had already labelled events in Gaza a genocide back in March 2024. Following her lead, this piece takes us deep into the heart of the institution’s crisis, as it struggles with its inability to stop the massacre of civilians.

Disunited Nations

2025

Disunited Nations poster
8.4

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, had already labelled events in Gaza a genocide back in March 2024. Following her lead, this piece takes us deep into the heart of the institution’s crisis, as it struggles with its inability to stop the massacre of civilians.

Disunited Nations

2025

Disunited Nations poster
8.4

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, had already labelled events in Gaza a genocide back in March 2024. Following her lead, this piece takes us deep into the heart of the institution’s crisis, as it struggles with its inability to stop the massacre of civilians.

Disunited Nations

2025

White Power: Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement poster
5.8

An analysis of the rise of the European far-right, increasingly present in both politics and everyday life: an inquisitive journey through France, Germany and Belgium.

White Power: Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement

2024

White Power: Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement poster
5.8

An analysis of the rise of the European far-right, increasingly present in both politics and everyday life: an inquisitive journey through France, Germany and Belgium.

White Power: Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement

2024

Daech, le dilemme de la justice poster
NR

What should we do of former jihadists returning to the country, who have been fed on radical ideologies and extreme violence for the past five years?

Daech, le dilemme de la justice

2019

Daech, le dilemme de la justice poster
NR

What should we do of former jihadists returning to the country, who have been fed on radical ideologies and extreme violence for the past five years?

Daech, le dilemme de la justice

2019

Inkotanyi poster
6.0

For the first time, light is shed on the Inkotanyi politico-military movement that ended the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi in 1994 and is led by Paul Kagame, currently President of Rwanda.

Inkotanyi

2017

13 novembre 2015 : anatomie d'une instruction poster
8.0

On November 13, 2015, ten months after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher at the Porte de Vincennes, three jihadist commandos, divided between the Stade de France, the Bataclan and the terraces of the 10th and 11th districts of Paris, spread death in the capital. How were these men, mostly French and Belgian, some of them actively sought, able to cross Europe and carry out their plans without being worried? Faced with the loopholes revealed by the attacks, fourteen European countries, supported by Europol and Eurojust, the EU's police and judicial cooperation agencies, pooled information and resources on an unprecedented scale to identify and track down the culprits, accomplices and sponsors of these attacks.

13 novembre 2015 : anatomie d'une instruction

2022

Démocratie Année Zéro poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Démocratie Année Zéro

2014