Franssou Prenant
Franssou Prenant (born 8 November 1952 in Paris) is a French filmmaker, screenwriter, editor, actress and camera operator.
Prenant studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). In 1974, she played a young Native American woman in Marco Ferreri's Don't Touch the White Woman!. Her first short film, Paradis perdu, was released in 1975. In 1977 she served as script supervisor on Robert Bresson's The Devil, Probably. From 1982 onwards, she worked as an editor for Raymond Depardon, notably on Faits divers, a documentary for which she received a nomination for the César Award for Best Editing.
Her own films have been selected at numerous festivals in France and abroad, including IndieLisboa (Portugal), the Viennale (Austria), the IFFR (Netherlands), EntreVues - Festival du film de Belfort, Côté court, and Visions du Réel (Switzerland).
Her most recent film, De la conquête, was selected in 2022 at the Rencontres du cinéma documentaire de Montreuil, the États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas, and FIDMarseille.
| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0311 |
| Birthday | 1952-11-08 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Françoise Prenant, |
1985
Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa
7.438/8
A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.
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Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa
2000
Paris, My Little Body Is Very Tired of This Big World
6.167/6
Lunettes and Myope: two ways of resisting the world. Identical and opposites, face to face or, more often, back to back, in a small room in a timeless...
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Paris, My Little Body Is Very Tired of This Big World
1972
Albertine ou Les Souvenirs parfumés de Marie-Rose
5/1
France, 1972. Albertine, a teenager in rebellion against school, the rancid family and religion, asserts her rights to a sexuality without obstacles....
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Albertine ou Les Souvenirs parfumés de Marie-Rose
1994
A Letter to L...
6.25/4
She was 18. They were in love and lived together for ten years. 20 years later, he receives a letter from her. L is very ill. He grabs hold of his cam...
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A Letter to L...
2026
Hélène Trésore Transnationale
0/0
In this intimate portrait addressed directly to Hélène Hazera, filmmaker Judith Abitbol revisits a key figure of France’s countercultures from the lat...
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