Chloé Mazlo
Directing
Biography
Chloé Mazlo is a Franco-Lebanese director and visual artist based in Paris. After studying graphic design at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, she specialized in animated films, at the crossroads of different techniques.Her third short, Les Petits Cailloux, won the 2015 César for animated short. In 2020, she directed her first feature, Sous le ciel d'Alice, starring Alba Rohrwarcher and Wajdi Mouawad. The film was selected for the Critics' Week at Cannes.
Known For
In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his relatives, but after years of bliss, the civil war threatens their Garden of Eden.
Skies of Lebanon
A woman is forced to leave Venezuela, where she has lived for 28 years. She wonders what to pack in her suitcase.
La Valise
A jeweler tells his children the story of diamond. An existential perspective of the history of the precious stone, supported by the voice of a storyteller prone to digress…
Diamenteurs
Summer 2006. Paris, France. Chloe is waiting patiently for her departure to Beirut. She has decided to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of her parents’ arrival in France by taking a road trip to Lebanon. Just as they had done to escape the war, but the other way round. The journey is meant to allow her to discover Lebanon, and address her identity issues. Ironically, a new war breaks out a few days before her departure. Her plans are upset, but the irrational attachment she nurtures for this wounded country pushes her to leave nevertheless…
Deyrouth
Traumatised by a painfull breakup, Joseph decides on stepping out of his house, and finding some sugar in order to remove bitterness from his life.
Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes
Chloe is a young woman who leads a small and happy life, letting herself be happily by the things of life... with a certain nonchalance. But visceral physical pain makes herself bend little by little. Where does this mysterious illness come from? Will Chloe succeed in getting rid of it ?
The Little Stones
The life of Asmahan, the diva and druze princess was short, but what a life ! Marriages, glory, espionage, lovers, alcohol, poker, suicides, murders, scandals… This oriental Marilyn has marked the golden age of the egyptian musical comedies. Today, her voice still resonates everywhere in the Middle East and her mysterious death in the waters of the Nile still feeds the wildest rumors…
Asmahan the Diva
Paul, aged 8, doesn't want to take his dog Paulette for a walk. Which is hardly surprising: his family's just moved to a new neighborhood and Paul doesn't like the unfamiliar - it's too risky. But, when Paulette runs off, Paul finds himself face to face with a crew of kids and their homemade treehouse-raft! Soon, it's all aboard for a mysterious mission, full of excitement and adventure...
Cut and Run
6 days to paint
Galerie Maculée
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Expressions Carnivores
With excerpts from her diary as a link narrative, Chloé has realised a series of animations, which tells her failed love stories and developped her theories on love.
L'amour m'anime
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La vie gourmande
Hornbook