Pierre-Olivier François

Directing

Pierre-Olivier François

Born

1971-01-01 (55)

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Pierre-Olivier François is a German-French journalist and documentary filmmaker, among others for the broadcaster Arte.

Known for

Il était une fois... "As bestas" poster
6.0

Inspired by a true story, "As bestas", the sixth feature film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen ("Los años nuevos"), enjoyed unexpected box-office success upon its release. The story behind a hit, where thriller elements blend with rural life to reflect contemporary anxieties.

Il était une fois... "As bestas"

2026

Glaciers - Melting Giants poster
8.0

Climate change is accelerating the melting of glaciers around the world. A study conducted across all continents sounds the alarm about the urgent need to preserve them.

Glaciers - Melting Giants

2026

Korea, A Hundred Years of War poster
5.5

A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.

Korea, A Hundred Years of War

2020

Il était une fois... « La Loi de Téhéran » poster
7.5

In the form of a gripping social thriller, Saeed Roustayi's "The Law of Tehran" (2019) offers a striking insight into the war declared on drug traffickers by the authorities. We look back at the making of a film that revealed the extent of the drug scourge in Iran today.

Il était une fois... « La Loi de Téhéran »

2024

Der gefälschte Mond von Galileo Galilei poster
8.7

The story sounds like a gripping thriller: almost 400 years after its publication, a previously unknown copy of Galileo Galilei's "Sidereus Nuncius", the "Starry Messenger", has appeared on the international book market. Unlike in the known copies, Galileo allegedly drew the moons himself. Who is behind the forgery?

Der gefälschte Mond von Galileo Galilei

2019

Terror und Champagner – Hitlers Stellvertreter in Paris poster
8.0

Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, ambassador of the Vichy regime in Paris, met almost daily and developed official collaboration between the governments of Vichy and Nazi Germany.

Terror und Champagner – Hitlers Stellvertreter in Paris

2025

Behind the camera

Il était une fois... "As bestas" poster
6.0

Inspired by a true story, "As bestas", the sixth feature film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen ("Los años nuevos"), enjoyed unexpected box-office success upon its release. The story behind a hit, where thriller elements blend with rural life to reflect contemporary anxieties.

Il était une fois... "As bestas"

2026

Glaciers - Melting Giants poster
8.0

Climate change is accelerating the melting of glaciers around the world. A study conducted across all continents sounds the alarm about the urgent need to preserve them.

Glaciers - Melting Giants

2026

Korea, A Hundred Years of War poster
5.5

A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.

Korea, A Hundred Years of War

2020

Korea, A Hundred Years of War poster
5.5

A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.

Korea, A Hundred Years of War

2020

Il était une fois... « La Loi de Téhéran » poster
7.5

In the form of a gripping social thriller, Saeed Roustayi's "The Law of Tehran" (2019) offers a striking insight into the war declared on drug traffickers by the authorities. We look back at the making of a film that revealed the extent of the drug scourge in Iran today.

Il était une fois... « La Loi de Téhéran »

2024

Der gefälschte Mond von Galileo Galilei poster
8.7

The story sounds like a gripping thriller: almost 400 years after its publication, a previously unknown copy of Galileo Galilei's "Sidereus Nuncius", the "Starry Messenger", has appeared on the international book market. Unlike in the known copies, Galileo allegedly drew the moons himself. Who is behind the forgery?

Der gefälschte Mond von Galileo Galilei

2019

Terror und Champagner – Hitlers Stellvertreter in Paris poster
8.0

Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, ambassador of the Vichy regime in Paris, met almost daily and developed official collaboration between the governments of Vichy and Nazi Germany.

Terror und Champagner – Hitlers Stellvertreter in Paris

2025

Terror und Champagner – Hitlers Stellvertreter in Paris poster
8.0

Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, ambassador of the Vichy regime in Paris, met almost daily and developed official collaboration between the governments of Vichy and Nazi Germany.

Terror und Champagner – Hitlers Stellvertreter in Paris

2025

Als Botschafter bei Hitler poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Als Botschafter bei Hitler

2021

Als Botschafter bei Hitler poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Als Botschafter bei Hitler

2021

Bosnie-Herzégovine - Une paix si fragile poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bosnie-Herzégovine - Une paix si fragile

2023

Clara Haskil : le mystère de l'interprète poster
NR

The film tells the story of the incredible fate of pianist Clara Haskil. She was celebrated very early as a prodigy. At the tender age of five, she was sent by her family from Bucharest to Vienna, and later, under the care of her strict uncle, to Paris to continue her studies. She will suffer from chronic health issues, survive two world wars, anti-Semitism, before having to go into exile in Vevey, Switzerland. That’s where she found the proper support, in the early fifties, to begin the career she deserved for so long, world fame and undeniable recognition.

Clara Haskil : le mystère de l'interprète

2017

Have Fun in Pyongyang poster
7.2

Is it possible to have fun in Pyongyang? Can one be joyful in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? If so, who can? Everyone? Doing what? Why does Kim Jong-un bet on amusement parks, skis trails, and tourism? This film allows to go beyond mass parades and recurring missile crisis, to meet the people of North Korean “Hermit Kingdom”. The authors have been there dozen times, like amateur anthropologists, filming during eight years parties and harvests, factories and singing contests, Pyongyang and the countryside – and interviewing North Korean people.

Have Fun in Pyongyang

2019

Have Fun in Pyongyang poster
7.2

Is it possible to have fun in Pyongyang? Can one be joyful in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? If so, who can? Everyone? Doing what? Why does Kim Jong-un bet on amusement parks, skis trails, and tourism? This film allows to go beyond mass parades and recurring missile crisis, to meet the people of North Korean “Hermit Kingdom”. The authors have been there dozen times, like amateur anthropologists, filming during eight years parties and harvests, factories and singing contests, Pyongyang and the countryside – and interviewing North Korean people.

Have Fun in Pyongyang

2019