Nocturnes Productions
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Nocturnes Productions is a French production company
Production company
A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...

 founded in 2007 by Olivier Bohler and Raphaël Millet
Raphaël Millet
Raphaël Millet is a French writer, critic, producer and director of cinema and television, as well as an organiser and programmer of cultural events.- Studies :...

.

Activity

Nocturnes Productions produces mainly documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

s about cinema and film-makers, such as Code Name Melville
Code Name Melville
Code Name Melville is a feature length documentary about Jean-Pierre Melville, directed by Olivier Bohler and produced by Raphaël Millet for Nocturnes Productions in 2008. Its world premiere took place in November 2008 at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei...

directed by Olivier Bohler and Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory is the first feature length documentary about French writer and filmmaker Pierre Schoendoerffer, directed by Raphaël Millet and produced by Olivier Bohler for Nocturnes Productions in 2011.- Synopsis :Pierre Schoendoerffer revisits his life and...

directed by Raphaël Millet, Melville-Delon : d'honneur et de nuit directed by Olivier Bohler, as well as arthouse documentaries such as November directed by Abel Davoine.

It also produces short films, such as Halfway (original French title: À Mi-chemin) directed by Arnaud Bénoliel, feature films like The Test (adapted from Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes .-Biography:...

's eponymous novel), as well as corporate movies such as Magic of Cinema (original French title: La Magie du cinéma) for the Dubai International Film Festival and Baba Bling for Singapore's National Heritage Board.

Produced

  • Code Name Melville
    Code Name Melville
    Code Name Melville is a feature length documentary about Jean-Pierre Melville, directed by Olivier Bohler and produced by Raphaël Millet for Nocturnes Productions in 2008. Its world premiere took place in November 2008 at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei...

    (original French title: Sous le nom de Melville), directed by Olivier Bohler, 76 minutes, 2008. World premiered during the 2008 edition of Taipei's Golden Horse Film Festival.
  • November (original French title: Novembre), directed by Abel Davoine, in coproduction with Traces (Switzerland) and Imagia (Switzerland), 101 minutes, 2010.
  • Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
    Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
    Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory is the first feature length documentary about French writer and filmmaker Pierre Schoendoerffer, directed by Raphaël Millet and produced by Olivier Bohler for Nocturnes Productions in 2011.- Synopsis :Pierre Schoendoerffer revisits his life and...

    (original French title: Pierre Schoendoerffer, la sentinelle de la mémoire) directed by Raphaël Millet, 60 minutes, 2011.
  • André S. Labarthe, From the Cat to the Hat (original French title: André S. Labarthe s'expose : du chat au chapeau) directed by Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler, 30 minutes, 2011.
  • Melville-Delon : d'honneur et de nuit directed by Olivier Bohler, 26 minutes, 2011.

In production

  • Bye Bye Godard! Everything must go (original French title: Adieu Godard! Tout doit disparaître) directed by Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler, 52 minutes.
  • Halfway (original French title: À Mi-chemin) directed by Arnaud Bénoliel, 15 minutes.

In development

  • Volker Schlöndorff: How has it been possible ? (original French title: Volker Schlöndorff: comment cela a-t-il été possible ?) directed by Olivier Bohler and Raphaël Millet, 90 minutes.
  • The Test (original French title: L'Épreuve) adapted from Pierre Boulle, 90 minutes.

External links

Notice de Sous le nom de Melville sur le portail du Film documentaire Code Name Melville on IMDB
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