Armel Hostiou

Armel Hostiou is a French filmmaker.

Career

Hostiou studied at La Fémis cinema school in Paris, he graduated in 2003. Then he directed several short films, SoloS, Contre Temps, Lost You, Chorus, Kino, World was on Fire and No One Could Save Me But You, Psycho Motion, La ville bleue.

Those films won different awards in film festivals Best experimental Film Tel Aviv 2004 for SoloS, Audience Award Munich 2006 for Contre Temps, Jury Award San Francisco Independent Exposure 2008 for Kino, Audience Award San Francisco Metacafe Festival 2009 for World was on Fire and no one could save me but You. Hostiou also directed music videos for French and American bands (Babx, Fantazio, Poni Hoax, Limousine, DM Stith, Foma) and some experimental films and video installations.

Day, his first feature film, produced by Bocalupo Films was premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2011 in the Acid selection. The U.S. premiere took place at the European Film festival in the Miami Beach Cinematheque as the opening film of the festival.

In 2013 he shot in New York his second feature film, also produced by Bocalupo Films, Stubborn (Une histoire américaine, French title), starring Vincent Macaigne and Kate Moran. The film is released in France in February 2015 by UFO Distribution. The U.S. premiere took place in New York at Lincoln Center as part of the 20th "Rendez-Vous with French cinema" film festival in March 2015.

In 2019, The Invisible Pyramid, his first feature-length documentary, filmed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, had its premiere at the Cinéma du Réel Festival in Paris. In 2023, he's presenting a new film, The Other Profile, which recounts his quest to track down an identity thief in Congo. The U.S. Premiere took place at the True/False Film Festival in March 2024. Selected by numerous festivals worldwide, it won the Audience Award at the Sicilia Queer Filmfest in Palermo in 2024.

Filmography

Feature films

2012: Day 2015: Stubborn 2019: The Invisible Pyramid 2023: The Other Profile

Short films

2003: SoloS 2004: Kino 2004: Chorus 2005: Contre Temps 2006: World was on fire and no one could save me but you 2008: Lost You 2012: Psycho Motion 2013: Kingston Avenue 2015: La ville bleue 2024: Estela

Music videos

2005: De Saragosse à Barcelone - Julien Ribot - Ici, d'ailleurs... 2006: Seven Days - Fantazio - La Triperie 2006: Crack Maniac - Babx - Warner Music 2007: Cœur Larsen - Babx - Warner Music 2007: Bains de minuit - Babx - Warner Music 2008: Vanita - Toma Fetermix - Musikaction 2009: Sirènes - Delphine Volange - Labelenchanteur 2009: Do look back- Suicide - Kochka Da Cat 2009: Terra Incognita - Foma - Inverness 2009: BMB - DM Stith - Asthmatic Kitty Records 2009: Bons baisers d'Islamabad - Babx - Warner Music 2009: Electrochocs Ladyland - Babx - Warner Music 2009: De Haut en Bas - Arlt - Almost Musique 2009: The brightest side - Fantazio - La Triperie 2010: Hypernuit - Bertrand Belin - Label Cinq 7 2010: Even If - Limousine - Ekler’o’shock Records 2010: La mort des amants - Babx - Warner Music 2010: Carrie Ann - Poni Hoax & Babx - Tigersushi 2011: Tes bonnes choses - Louis Bertignac - Polydor 2012: Despote Paranoïa - Babx - Label Cinq 7 2013: Tchador Woman - Babx - Label Cinq 7 2013: Naomi Aime - Babx - Label Cinq 7 2013: There's nothing left for you here - Poni Hoax - Paneuropean Recordings 2013: Je ne t'ai jamais aimé - Babx - Label Cinq 7 2013: Lucile - Ghost Dance - Label La Fugitive 2014: Helsinki - Babx - Label Cinq 7 2015: Lost - Arcan 2016: Honneur - Armelle Dumoulin - Label Le Furieux 2017: Unknown dancer - DR(DR)ONE feat. Thomas de Pourquery 2018: You shall live - Ghost Dance - Label La Fugitive 2018: Trilogie Omaya - Babx - Label Bison Bison 2019: Omble Chevalier - Jean-baptiste Soulard & J. P. Nataf - Label Musique Sauvage 2019: Khellitini Najri Maurak - Mohamed Lamouri - Label Horizon / Sony

Experimental

2005: Everything is mental - Moscow Digital Act 2011 2006: Chute, 1 & 2 - Exposition Permanence, Orangerie de Sucy 2006 2006: Ondes (rêver immobile) - Théâtre de Bonneuil 2007 2007: Les petites statues - Kunsthaus Luxembourg Capitale européenne de la culture 2007 2007: Anatomie d'une ville Translocated, Londres 2010 2007: Wall Times, 1 & 2 - Melilla (2007) - Ramallah (2009) 2008: Sensations - Rimbaudmania, Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris 2010 2008: Laps - Espace Landowski, Boulogne 2009 2008: Traces - Dans la nuit, des images - Grand Palais, Paris 2008 2010: Niobe - Le quai de la batterie, Arras 2010 2011: Chili - Art of Travelling #1 2012: Flota - Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center EMPAC 2012: Watch Thru Me - Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center EMPAC 2013: Stellar (Region) - Innermap 2014: Duende - Musée Picasso - Nuit Blanche Paris 2014

Awards

2004: Best experimental Film, SoloS, Tel Aviv international student film festival 2004: Prix BAC cinéma, SoloS, Rencontres cinématographiques de Digne 2004: Prix SACEM, SoloS, Festival des e-magiciens, Valenciennes 2005: Max Ophuls preis, Chorus, Saarbrücken Film festival 2006: Audience Award, Contre Temps, FFAT Festival Munich 2007: Prix du clip le plus créatif de l'année, Seven Days, Le Monde.fr 2008: Geografias de la imagen, Anatomie d'une ville Fundacion Ars Teore-tica 2008: Selected music video 2008, BMB (can't say goodbye), YouTube US 2008: Jury Award, Kino, San Francisco Independent Exposure 2009: Audience Award, Metafest, World was on fire and no one could save me but you, San Francisco 2012: Curator's choice, Rives, Young French Cinema at B.A.M. - New York 2015: Young Programmers Award, Une histoire américaine, Festival de cine europeo de Sevilla 2024 : Audience Award, Le Vrai du Faux, Sicila Queer International New Visions Film Fest