
Nicolas Graux
Directing
Biography
Nicolas Graux is a director and writer, known for Hair, Paper, Water... (2025), Century of Smoke (2019) and After Dawn (2017).
Known For

She was born in a cave, more than 60 years ago. Now she lives in a village, with many children and grandchildren to look after. Sometimes, she dreams of her dead mother calling her home – to the cave.
Hair, Paper, Water...

Porcupine evokes the fragmented tale of a young man who breaks into an empty hospital to set up his online broadcast of poses and provocations; his audience includes real-life participants with anonymous tags like ‘bigballnz’ and ‘romeoazteca’.
Porcupine

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
Century of Smoke

On a slag heap, where coal miners used to tramp, men are now awaiting each other.
The Men Who Wait

Nil follows Luca off the beaten track through tall grass and low branches. The rising sun touches his face. He observes Luca, his back, his nape...
Boy with the Devil

Ensconced in a solitary existence, Paweł believed that his feelings for the young man he once loved in Brussels had long since ebbed. That is, until one rainy afternoon, when he finds Clément waiting at his home in Poland.