François Jacob
François Jacob is a self-taught filmmaker. His early short films include La queue du train (2008), Le soleil (2010) and Les lendemains qui chantent (2014). He then worked on indie documentaries abroad. He embarked on a vast research project leading to his first feature film: A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Visions du Réel, 2017). The war saga Under the Same Sun (2020) is his second feature film. He lives and works in Montreal.
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Under the Same Sun
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to fight fiercely over the mountainous Nagorny Karabakh region. More than 25 years after the war, nationalistic passions seem as strong as ever. With the restraint that comes with our foreigner’s gaze, *Under the Same Sun* offers an attentive ear, in search of understanding in these young countries with old wounds.
A Moon Of Nickel And Ice
The mining town of Norilsk sits in the heart of the Siberian Arctic, huddled behind its wind walls and bathed in the smoke and sulfur of its factories. While teenagers in the icy city dream of exile and nickel miners ponder the lost Soviet comradeship, descendants of Gulag prisoners and theatre artists seek to shed light on Norilsk’s dark past, buried under ice and censorship. *A Moon of Nickel...
Under the Same Sun
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to fight fiercely over the mountainous Nagorny Karabakh region. More than 25 years after the war, nationalistic passions seem as strong as ever. With the restraint that comes with our foreigner’s gaze, *Under the Same Sun* offers an attentive ear, in search of understanding in these young countries with old wounds.
A Moon Of Nickel And Ice
The mining town of Norilsk sits in the heart of the Siberian Arctic, huddled behind its wind walls and bathed in the smoke and sulfur of its factories. While teenagers in the icy city dream of exile and nickel miners ponder the lost Soviet comradeship, descendants of Gulag prisoners and theatre artists seek to shed light on Norilsk’s dark past, buried under ice and censorship. *A Moon of Nickel...
