Lionel Kaplan
Directing
Biography
Lionel Kaplan debuted his career as a director with the short film ‘‘La première fois’’ with Benoît Magimel as the lead actor. He then directed three other films including a medium-length one. He is now also working in production as a development and production manager. He is currently working on the development of a couple of his own feature films projects. The first one is in its financing phase and the main characters will be played by Tcheky Karyo, Sabrina Ouazani, Pierre Perrier and Rashid Debbouze.
Known For
Fiction and reality dodge and weave in this clever story loop of Lucie, who is either a talented actress or a director.
Abymée
After dropping a body in the morgue, a hospital porter takes a break to smoke a cigarette and contemplate his life. The line bewteen life and death is not as clear as we think.
Smoking Kills
Simon, former member of a Corsican independence movement, lives in exile in Paris. Cass, a young German girl, lives in exile in Paris. Ludo, a fine, upstanding young man, lives in exile everywhere. The promise of financial gain being their principle motivation, things can only turn out badly.