Bruno DUMONT

Director, Script Writer

France

Bruno DUMONT

Bruno Dumont directed his first feature film at the age of thirty-eight: La vie de Jésus (1996), shot in Bailleul, where he was born. This film earned him immediate acclaim: it was selected for the Director's Fortnight, winning a Caméra d'Or Special Mention. Creating demanding, singular and raw works of cinema, Bruno Dumont returned to Cannes in 1999, in Competition, with L'humanité. He was awarded the Grand Prix and a double Best Performance prize for two of the films non-professional actors.
Bruno Dumont moved away from Northern France to shoot Twenty-nine Palms in the Californian desert, a road movie that was selected for the Venice Mostra in 2003. In 2006, Flandres, a harsh film about the devastation caused by war, received the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes.

Jury attendance

  • President Caméra d'Or, 2008

Feature films

FRANCE

In Competition - Feature Films, 2021Director, Screenplay, Editing

JEANNE

Un Certain Regard, 2019Director, Editing

MA LOUTE

In Competition - Feature Films, 2016Director, Screenplay, Editing

HORS SATAN

Un Certain Regard, 2011Editing, Director, Screenplay

FLANDRES

In Competition - Feature Films, 2006Screenplay, Director

L’HUMANITE

In Competition - Feature Films, 1999Director, Screenplay

LA VIE DE JÉSUS

Cinémas en France, 1997Director

Awards

JEANNE

(JOAN OF ARC) Un Certain Regard, 2019
2019 Un Certain Regard Jury's Special Mention
Director, Editing

FLANDRES

(FLANDERS) In Competition - Feature Films, 2006
2006 Grand Prix
Screenplay, Director

L’HUMANITE

In Competition - Feature Films, 1999
1999 Grand Prix1999 Award for Best Actress (Ex-Aequo)1999 Award for Best Actor
Director, Screenplay

LA VIE DE JÉSUS

Cinémas en France, 1997
1997 Distinction - Caméra d'Or
Director