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Cyriac Auriol

Cyriac Auriol, born in 1966, is a French film producer.

Biographie

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Graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, he started his path in cinema as an intern with Daniel Toscan du Plantier. In 1992, he founded Les Films du Requin, and during the first three years, he produced about thirty short films, before his first feature film in 1995, Drancy Avenir, by Arnaud des Pallières. This film is a poetic, historical and philosophical investigation into the traces of the extermination of Jews in Paris and its suburbs today.

In 1998, Jeanne et le garçon formidable, a musical comedy by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, who competed in Berlin the same year. Since then, with Les Films du Requin and later Rémora Films, he has produced around fifteen other feature films and fifty short films, developing an eclectic and demanding catalog of author cinema.

In 2018, 20 years after Jeanne et le Garçon Formidable, he reunites with Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau to produce Haut Perchés. In 2022 To the North by Romanian director Mihai Mincan wins the Critics' Prize at Venice. In 2024, Le Grand Phuket was selected for the Berlinale. The following year, Alireza Khatami's The Things You Kill wins Best Film at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

His main films are:


He also produces or coproduces numerous films by foreign directors, including the film by Cuban writer Joel Cano Obregón, 7 Dias 7 Noches, which won the Grand Prix at the 2003 Three Continents Festival, and the film by Tunisian director Nacer Khémir, Bab'Aziz / The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul, presented at Locarno Film Festival in 2005. He also worked on Ilusiones Ópticas by Chilean filmmaker Cristian Jimenez, and Agua Fría de Mar by Costa Rican director Paz Fabregas, which won the Grand Prix at the 2010 Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2016, he produced Zin n'aariyâ! / The Wedding Ring, the first feature film by Nigerian director Rahmatou Keïta.

At the same time, Cyriac Auriol developed a documentary career, notably with films by Iranian filmmaker Mitra Farahani, including Juste une femme, which won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the Berlinale in 2002, and Tabous (Zohreh & Manouchehr), a documentary about love and sexuality in Iran, also presented at the Berlinale in 2004. Both films, shot clandestinely, illustrate the dualities of Iranian society's approach to sexuality.

In 2015, he initiated a collaboration with artist Pierrick Sorin, whose optical theaters he now edits.

In 1997, he takes on a new projet and starts renovating the Le Louxor Cinéma, a project that will not succeed. Transposing the ideas developed for the unfinished renovation of the Louxor to Morocco, Cyriac Auriol initiated and developed, in collaboration with photographer Yto Barrada, the project of the Cinémathèque de Tanger, which was inaugurated in February 2007. Since then, the Cinémathèque has been conducting a unique experience of programming author cinema from around the world in Morocco.

Cyriac Auriol is a member of the European Producers Network (ACE) and a member of the European Film Academy.

Filmography

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Producer

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Director, writer et actor

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