FILMS
SERIES
SCENARIOS
ACHIEVED
Cinema & Television
2007 / 2020
Co-production (France – Russia) of the Siberian series of “The Kamchakta Cellist”.
2015
Eloge du Chardon (In Praise of the Thistle)
Portrait of philosopher and writer André Glucksmann, who grew up during the Second World War. A member of the Communist Party at the age of 14, he became a Maoist activist after the events of 1968, before becoming associated with the “new philosophers” movement. At 75, the author of La Cuisinière et le Mangeur d’hommes has lost none of his youthful rage. He talks about his career, the causes that are close to his heart and the intellectuals who have marked his life, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Anna Politkovskaya, and continues to speak out against war and totalitarianism.
Image: Charles Castella and Thomas Bataille
Editing: Catherine Quesemand
Sound: Agnès Szabo
Mixing: Nathalie Vidal
Executive production: Hervé Clerc
Produced by Simone Halberstadt Harari (Effervescence)
France 5 (Empreintes collection)
With the participation of CNC and INA
2004 / 2007
Tengri, le bleu du ciel (Tengri, the blue of the sky)
A nomadic love story in the heart of today’s Central Asia, amid the rubble of Soviet rule and the renaissance of nationalities. A young Kyrgyz girl and a Kazakh sinner each try to escape a dead-end story; they manage to find each other and try to conquer their freedom. Breaking away from, and at the same time continuing, ancient traditions, their love story takes them through valleys, mountains, steppes and towns, following the course of the dried-up rivers that once brought life to the land, to their new world: between East and West. They try to invent a place where it would be good to love each other, on earth or in Tengri, the blue of the sky… The mountains are full of ravines and the roads full of ambushes… Where will they get to?
Screenplay: Marie Jaoul de Poncheville & Jean-François Goyet
With the collaboration of : Charles Castella
Delegated production : L Films
Coproduction: French Production & Arte France Cinéma
Producers: Emmanuel Schlumberger, Frank Müller & Talaibek Bapanov
Associate producers: Dieter Horres & Anne Devauchelle
Artistic director: Charles Castella
Director of photography : Sylvie Carcedo
Editing: Catherine Quesemand
Sound: William Franck
Music: Birgit Løkke
Set design: Kassym Ismailov
Costumes: Tatiana Tychinskaia Krasotka
Production manager: Pascal Metge & Guillaume de Seille
2001 / 2003
Yönden
In 1992, Marie Jaoul de Poncheville shot a film in Mongolia, “Molom, conte de Mongolie”, a traditional Mongolian tale about a child and a shaman played by the late actor Tsededoi. Nine years later, she returned to see the child in her film and paint a portrait of him.
He is 17 years old. Throughout their nine-year separation, they kept in touch thanks to Dr Alain Cantero. Alain Cantero regularly cares for nomads in this region, and in 2001 set up a care caravan that travelled from Karakorum to Lake Kövsgöl. Yönden lives in the South Kangai region, near Karakorum.
The young man now looks after his family. The film shows Yönden in his family life and in his responsibilities as expedition leader of the caravan whose journey we film. We film the life of a young Mongolian whose sense of responsibility is formidable and whose joie de vivre immense. Molom had greatly contributed to our knowledge of this magnificent country. We hope that the film Yönden will also contribute, in a more contemporary way, to getting to know this country through the portrait of a remarkable young man.
Screenplay and adaptation by Marie Jaoul de Poncheville (in collaboration with Charles Castella and Pierre Joffroy)
Editing: Catherine Quesemand
Cinematographer : Jacques Besse /
Sound: Pierre André
Mixing: Olivier Do Huu
With the participation of ARTE France ©.
Kuiv Productions 2001
1999 / 2000
La Projection (The Projection)
Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako returns to Sokolo, the small village in Mali where he shot “Life on Earth”, with the desire to screen the film to share with the villagers this moment of cinema in which they had been the actors and of which they will become the spectators. The film “La projection” is the director’s discreet witness in Sokolo during the screening of his film “La vie sur terre”. It’s not just a screening, but the act of sharing, of giving back to those who played in this film what they gave. The screening is a look at the relationship that has developed between the village and the film crew, and the responsibility the filmmakers have taken on to raise awareness of the life of this small village.
Director of photography : Jacques Besse
Shooting in Mali (Mauritanian border).
Production Arte – Duo films – Dominant 7.
Broadcast by Arte.
Released in June 1999 as the 1st part of “La Vie sur Terre” by Abderrahmane Sissako.
1998
La Vie sur Terre (Life on Earth)
In the small village of Sokolo, lost in an oasis in the middle of the Malian desert, the inhabitants are watching over the new millennium. On this occasion, Dramane returns to the village to visit his father. On several occasions, he comes across a young girl on a bicycle from Kourouma, a neighboring village, where they exchange a few brief conversations. Meanwhile, villagers are struggling to contact their loved ones, due to telephone connection problems.
Production Consultant and Artistic Director,
Co-author of Abderrahmane Sissako’s feature film.
Produced by Arte and Haut et Court.
Broadcast August on Arte and theatrical release June 1999.
1995
Molom, Conte de Mongolie (Molom, Tale of Mongolia)
Molom is a traditional Mongolian tale about a child and a venerable shaman (played by the now-deceased Tsededoi).
The child is Yönden, raised by wolves. From adventures to encounters, the old man teaches wisdom to his young disciple who, at the end of his wanderings, will choose his path: the nomadic life, the solitude of the pilgrim or religious study…
– The most beautiful film of the year…” NEW YORK TIMES
Director, producer, author.
Distribution: Cie des Films and Cinéma Public.
Salles 1995 release
Book “Molom, le Chamane et l’Enfant” published by Editions Lattes.
CD: “Molom, Conte de Mongolie” (Polygram),
film score by John Mc Laughlin and Trilok Gurtu and original Mongolian music.
1991
Treasures of Buddhist Art
Director of feature-length documentary filmed in Ukraine, Russia.
Produced by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation.
“The Dalai Lama’s trip to Russia (Kalmykia, Buryatia, Siberia).
Director of the feature-length documentary.
Production Meridian Trust, London.
1990
Lungta, the Wind Riders
Life for the Tibetan people, forty years after the Chinese invasion.
Filmed in Amdo and Kham, regions forgotten by the world and until now completely off-limits to film-makers and journalists, this is an exceptional document on humanity’s most mysterious civilization, now threatened with extinction.
An introduction by His Holiness Tenzin Gatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, exiled since 1959 to Dharamsala in India, opens the film.
Cinematographer : Nurith Aviv
Voice-over text: Pierre Joffroy and Andrew Harvey
With the voice of Isabelle Adjani for France and Richard Gere for the USA.
Production Lungta Productions /FProductions
Released in Paris, France and abroad.
TV broadcast: TF1, M6, FR2, FR3.
1989
Production of the following documentaries:
“Summer in Tibet“Unit by Michèle Cotta, broadcast by TF1,
“Seven Women in Tibet in the footsteps of Alexandra David-Néel“
Just a few weeks after the bloody crackdown on China’s pro-democracy movement, eight women were granted permission by the Chinese government to travel to Tibet along the route opened by the great explorer Alexandra David-Néel.
Feature-length documentary.
Produced by Lungta Productions. Unit Pascale Breugnot, TF1.
Broadcast on FR2, TF1, M6, La Cinquième and Canal +.
1988/ 1987 / 1986 / 1985
Production of the following documentaries:
” In Search of Eternity “Diff. M6,
” Tibetans in exile “Diff. TF1,
” The Long Life Pill “Diff. The Fifth,
” Le Temps Retrouvé “(Nepal) Diff. TF1.
And also :
” Loxin, the initiation of a young shaman “. Adaptation, screenplay and co-producer of the feature-length documentary by Franz-Christoph Giercke. Broadcast by FR3,FR2.
” The god of dance “. Co-producer and French adaptation of the feature-length documentary
Cinéma by Richard Kohn: DiffusionTV: Arte. Theatrical release, Paris, Province, Abroad.
1985: “Les Salons de Marie”, novel co-written with Arnaud Marty-Lavauzelle, Editions Carrère
1984: Creator of Editions Marie de Poncheville /Livres Clés en mains”.
1982: Journalist (Cosmo, La Croix, Elle, Femme, Figaro Magazine, Globe, Vogue …)
1981: Founder and Managing Director of Editions 5 Continents (general literature)
1978: Literary Director of Editions Tchou
1977: Head of Youth Programs at SFP
1975: Journalist at Bayard Presse and Editor at Journal Pomme d’Api
1974: “Maman, j’ai peur” Editions Elp
SCRIPTS WRITTEN OR IN PROGRESS
2012 / 2024
Aux Sources de l’Amour
(being written in collaboration with Dominique Jaoul)
Lise Barbier – Cristiani’s crossing of Siberia, a young cello prodigy in the mid-19th century.
Elisa
A young modern cellist goes in search of Lise Barbier – Cristiani.
My good earth
A great Mongolian saga, the return to her roots of a woman in the middle of her life.
(With the collaboration of Marie-Hélène Rudel)
Saran & Yona
The story of two Mongolian girls, one an opera singer and the other an ecology researcher.
(With the collaboration of Marie-Hélène Rudel)
Tulum
Federico Fellini’s last trip to Mexico with Carlos Castaneda.
(With the collaboration of Henri Gougaud)
Oriane Peyrèdes, the diary of a schoolteacher
The story of a young teacher appointed to a small school in the Cévennes.
