
Michel Reilhac
Production
Biography
Michel Reilhac, based in Amsterdam, has been Head of Submarine Channel since January 2017. Director of VR (Virtual Reality) films and the narrative architect of interactive storytelling, his last film, in VR, Viens!, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016. He is also a pioneer in transmedia storytelling formats and immersive, participatory and interactive experiences. Furthermore, he is Director of Studies at the Venice Biennale College-Cinema and is frequently invited to lecture and speak at international events (i.e. Cannes Film Festival, SXSW Austin, Tribeca Film Festival, Pixel Lab, Dixit, FEMIS, etc.). From 2002 to 2012, Michel was Head of Film Acquisitions at Arte France and Executive Director of Arte France Cinéma.
Known For

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Antichrist

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Melancholia

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Womb

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.
Son of Rambow

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...
Don't Come Knocking

A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola.
Americano

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money.
Free Zone

Nina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. Meanwhile, Francoise is picked up at a Berlin psychiatric hospital by her husband, Pierre. After spotting Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but no one believes her.
Ghosts

Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush.
Salvo

An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
The Intruder

A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.
Huacho

A series of 12 short movies from the start of the twentieth century. These movies were the first adult movies, and, according to the film-maker Michel Reilhac, show that "the modern porn industry did not invent anything – everything had already been filmed by our great-grandparents."