Ladj Ly

Birthday: 1978 in Mali

Ladj Ly was born in 1978 in Mali. He is a director and actor, known for Les misérables (2019), Les misérables (2017) and Go Fast Connexion (2009).

[press conference for Les misérables (2019) at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival] The starting po Show more [press conference for Les misérables (2019) at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival] The starting point of course of this project was a police blunder that I filmed ten years ago. For five years, I filmed scenes in my neighbourhood - we filmed the cops - it was a neighbourhood where a lot of things happened and I started to film the cops and then I actually filmed a cop blunder, and I had a video therefore. We talked with our collective group and we decided to disseminate the video. After a police enquiry, the press latched onto the video and the policeman was suspended. A few years later I decided to turn it into Les misérables (2017), which was my first short film. I'd been wanting for quite some time to do a short - for about ten years I'd been thinking of the idea. It's quite complicated to do a feature film of course, it wasn't an easy matter, we had a very small budget but we did manage to do it. So that was the starting point; I started by making a short and as it was so very successful - we were selected for any number of festivals and got about 30 awards - so I felt that the time was right to do my first feature film which bears the same name, Les Misérables. Hide

Ladj Ly's FILMOGRAPHY

All as Actor (5) as Creator (1)

Athena (2022)

Le monde est à toi

Sakho and Mangane - Season 1 [Sub: Eng]

Notre jour viendra

Inside Out

Les Misérables [Sub: Eng]