
Directing
Jonathan Vinel
Born
1988-04-26 (38)
Place of birth
Tolosa, Francia
Known for
Directing
Credits
45 titles
Known for
4.5Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.
Jessica Forever
2019
NRSeveral people have barricaded themselves inside a bar. The music must never stop, otherwise something terrible could happen.
The Blessing
2026
7.5Within my walls, many people are taking a break. Waiting to live.
Best Secret Place
2023
6.2Young drug dealer Pablo and his sister Appoline bond over an online game called Darknoon. Pablo falls for Night, neglecting his sister. While Appoline finishes the game, Pablo and Night become embroiled in a dangerous gang conflict.
Eat the Night
2024
1.0Unfamiliar stories that are universally relatable, these teenagers are put into situations which they have no experience deal with. A reflective anthology of French short films exploring the elation and heartbreak of not quite knowing who you are yet.
French Touch: Coming of Age
2019
7.4No synopsis available yet.
WE
2011
Film credits
2010s · 4 titles
1.0Unfamiliar stories that are universally relatable, these teenagers are put into situations which they have no experience deal with. A reflective anthology of French short films exploring the elation and heartbreak of not quite knowing who you are yet.
French Touch: Coming of Age
2019
7.4No synopsis available yet.
WE
2011
6.0Two young men in a nearly abandoned suburban landscape deal with the suicide of one of their friends by shotgunning beers and joining a gang.
As Long as Shotguns Remain
2014
NRAt the school gymnasium, a prince and his friends are training to commit an attack.
Prince, puissance, souvenirs
2012
Behind the camera
4.5Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.
Jessica Forever
2019
4.5Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.
Jessica Forever
2019
NRSeveral people have barricaded themselves inside a bar. The music must never stop, otherwise something terrible could happen.
The Blessing
2026
NRSeveral people have barricaded themselves inside a bar. The music must never stop, otherwise something terrible could happen.
The Blessing
2026
7.5Within my walls, many people are taking a break. Waiting to live.
Best Secret Place
2023
7.5Within my walls, many people are taking a break. Waiting to live.
Best Secret Place
2023
6.2Young drug dealer Pablo and his sister Appoline bond over an online game called Darknoon. Pablo falls for Night, neglecting his sister. While Appoline finishes the game, Pablo and Night become embroiled in a dangerous gang conflict.
Eat the Night
2024
6.2Young drug dealer Pablo and his sister Appoline bond over an online game called Darknoon. Pablo falls for Night, neglecting his sister. While Appoline finishes the game, Pablo and Night become embroiled in a dangerous gang conflict.
Eat the Night
2024
1.0Unfamiliar stories that are universally relatable, these teenagers are put into situations which they have no experience deal with. A reflective anthology of French short films exploring the elation and heartbreak of not quite knowing who you are yet.
French Touch: Coming of Age
2019
1.0Unfamiliar stories that are universally relatable, these teenagers are put into situations which they have no experience deal with. A reflective anthology of French short films exploring the elation and heartbreak of not quite knowing who you are yet.
French Touch: Coming of Age
2019
7.4No synopsis available yet.
WE
2011
7.4No synopsis available yet.
WE
2011
NRIt is winter in a suburban town on the outskirts of Paris. After his father’s suicide attempt, Abdou, a young boy, is taken in by Sam, a neighbor in his thirties who isn’t quite sure what to do with his life. Over the course of an evening, these two lost souls meet and reconnect with their roots. A strange, sand-colored dog pays them a visit.
Le chien des sables
2026
5.9Laëtitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say good-bye.
After School Knife Fight
2017
5.9Laëtitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say good-bye.
After School Knife Fight
2017
4.0A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth, identity, and desire. This diverse collection showcases a range of cinematic voices—both emerging and established—exploring the exhilaration, vulnerability, and confusion of coming-of-age through stories that celebrate queer love, self-discovery, and the breaking of societal boundaries. Blending narrative shorts, experimental visuals, and music-driven pieces, the anthology offers an evocative, multifaceted portrait of innocence transformed.
Altered Innocence Vol. 1
2021
4.6Candice's life takes an explosive turn as she undergoes daily detonations for three months, peaking at seven blasts in one day, accumulating a staggering 192 explosions.
The Exploding Girl
2024
4.6Candice's life takes an explosive turn as she undergoes daily detonations for three months, peaking at seven blasts in one day, accumulating a staggering 192 explosions.
The Exploding Girl
2024
5.5Lucas invites his girlfriend Anäis to visit him at home. His parents aren’t around. The garden is all theirs. They can make love there. A photograph hangs on the wall of a man with a tiger in his arms. “Is that your father?” asks Anäis. “Yes, that’s my father. He’s the chairman of a tiger protection group in Thailand.” The father is Pierre Woodman, the famous pornographic film director. Lucas enters into an imaginary dialogue with his father. He makes an attempt to understand his father and makes an attempt at love himself – always in view of his father, who practised it incessantly.Then Lucas confers Anäis with a knighthood and fiction soars above reality.
Our Legacy
2016
5.5Lucas invites his girlfriend Anäis to visit him at home. His parents aren’t around. The garden is all theirs. They can make love there. A photograph hangs on the wall of a man with a tiger in his arms. “Is that your father?” asks Anäis. “Yes, that’s my father. He’s the chairman of a tiger protection group in Thailand.” The father is Pierre Woodman, the famous pornographic film director. Lucas enters into an imaginary dialogue with his father. He makes an attempt to understand his father and makes an attempt at love himself – always in view of his father, who practised it incessantly.Then Lucas confers Anäis with a knighthood and fiction soars above reality.
Our Legacy
2016
NRFour filmmakers share a montage of their original ghost images and rushes on a mix of I've seen the future.
Limbo Visions 1
2015
6.1A little girl just a few months old is upset by a world that doesn't suit her, a broken world into which her parents have forced her. After the death of her friend the star, she wants nothing more than to cook.
Baby Anger
2020
6.0Two young men in a nearly abandoned suburban landscape deal with the suicide of one of their friends by shotgunning beers and joining a gang.
As Long as Shotguns Remain
2014
6.0Two young men in a nearly abandoned suburban landscape deal with the suicide of one of their friends by shotgunning beers and joining a gang.
As Long as Shotguns Remain
2014
NRIn Corsica, a woman chooses to care for the earth by burning it.
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It
2022
NRIn Corsica, a woman chooses to care for the earth by burning it.
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It
2022
NRIn Corsica, a woman chooses to care for the earth by burning it.
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It
2022
NRAt the school gymnasium, a prince and his friends are training to commit an attack.
Prince, puissance, souvenirs
2012
NRAt the school gymnasium, a prince and his friends are training to commit an attack.
Prince, puissance, souvenirs
2012
NREarly short by Jonathan Vinel.
Plastique Boy
2009
No synopsis available yet.
Our Holidays Will Always Be Better Than Yours
2022
NRA fantasized portrait of Ashlynn Brooke.
A.B.
2012
6.9Martin cries. He is alone. He woke up in the morning and all his friends were gone. Disappeared. Just not there. He sets off to look for them. And he searches everywhere, in the city, in the mountains, in the rivers, but he doesn’t find them. That makes him furious. Really furious – really sad. Rage, violence, longing, loneliness. Without fear of great feelings, without fear of one's own courage and without fear of violence, Jonathan Vinel tells a story of love and loss entirely based on elements from the computer game Grand Theft Auto V – beyond all kinds of tawdry notions and with extremely concrete physicality.
Martin Cries
2017
4.7A group of animals living on a mysterious island try to overcome their personal traumas.
How Are You?
2025
4.7A group of animals living on a mysterious island try to overcome their personal traumas.
How Are You?
2025
6.0A video game love story.
Notre amour est assez puissant
2014
NRMy neighbour committed suicide. He was car tuning at the end of his life. I played football with him. Child. And also ping-pong. Herepaired our computer. He was called Gilles my neighbour. We cannot play any more. In a room, a boy reminds himself his dead friends.
Play
2011
NRShort film made for the Ulule campaign for As Long as Shotguns Remain.
Bouloc Is Magic
2013
2.9Three short films, out of the ordinary, brought together under a bewitching and enticing title. They are After School Knife Fight by the duo Poggi/Vinel, Les Îles by Gonzales, and Ultra Pulpe by Mandico. Three atmospheres, three sensitivities, going through three forms of expression (music, theatre and cinema) and which, put end-to-end, create an alternative pathway towards borrowed worlds of romance first, then obsession, and in the end, possession. Worlds of soft naivety, of nightmarish creatures and of pop fantasy, reminding us of the mysterious and velvety snatches of our dreams that stick to the spirit when one leaves them.
Ultra Rêve
2018
NRThe filmmakers film young cosplayers posing in the streets of Paris.
I Find Love
2017
