Léonard Cohen
Directing
Biography
Léonard Cohen achieved a master's degree in animation at Ensad in 2009. In 2010, his graduation film Plato was selected in many festivals and won multiple awards. He moved from Paris to Oakland in 2011. While working as a freelancer, he designed the TV-series Le Chiffroscope.
Known For
A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.
A History of Antisemitism
This series ran weekly for three seasons (2012-2015) within the Canal+ channel's flagship international news show "L'Effet Papillon"
Le Chiffroscope
The Fatiha is the first sura of the Koran. In Muslim tradition, it is also the name used for the ceremony to pay tribute to the deceased. Today, it's Amir’s Fatiha, Feurat Alani’s father, a French and Iraqi journalist. It’s the opportunity for his friends and family to reflect on Amir's story, and for Feurat to revisit his own story and Iraq's history.
Flavors of Iraq
Designer Olympia Le-Tan's embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation.
To Die By Your Side
Falls from heights, jumps straight, zigzag lines and deep banality ... Between the real and the imaginary, welcome to "Plato". Film created in ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratif) by Léonard Cohen, nothing to do with the Canadian singer.