Jacques Kébadian

Directing

20-04-1940

He/Him

Jacques Kébadian is a French filmmaker of Armenian descent. He began his career assisting director Robert Bresson on Mouchette (1967). Kébadian has directed several documentaries and feature films, often focusing on social and political themes. His works include Nous avons bu la même eau (1995) and Retour en Arménie (2007), exploring Armenian identity and history. Kébadian is also known for his involvement in film education and workshops.

Popular Movies/Shows

Mouchette

First Assistant Director

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Au Hasard Balthazar

Assistant Director

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

A Gentle Woman

Assistant Director

When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.

Paris, My Little Body Is Very Tired of This Big World

Lunettes and Myope: two ways of resisting the world. Identical and opposites, face to face or, more often, back to back, in a small room in a timeless space. Twins and adversaries, these two girls make one: Lunettes uses her glasses to help her understand the world, or at least accept it; Myope can't see, except within herself, and lost in her blurred, but sharp, experience of the world, rebels co...

20 Ans après

The Hovanessian family immigrated to the United States in winters 1994. Vartan and Anahide allowed me to share the last days before their departure from Erevan. The young Armenian Republic, still in shock from the earthquake and in conflict with Azerbaijan for the autonomy of Karabagh, was suffocated by a blockade that made the emergence of a new economy difficult.

Albertine ou Les Souvenirs parfumés de Marie-Rose

France, 1972. Albertine, a teenager in rebellion against school, the rancid family and religion, asserts her rights to a sexuality without obstacles. Wiith her friends, and the right to the abortion for the minor ones. With her friends, she campaigns for the rights to sexual pleasure and abortion for minor girls.

Top Rated Movies/Shows

Au Hasard Balthazar

Assistant Director

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Mouchette

First Assistant Director

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

A Gentle Woman

Assistant Director

When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.

Movies (Production)

Pierre Guyotat, le don de soi

La Fragile Armada

Germaine Tillion et Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz

Paris, My Little Body Is Very Tired of This Big World

Ipoustéguy, l'âge de la décision

Camera Operator

D'une brousse à l'autre

Mémoire Arménienne

Le mystère des pyramides

Calle San Luis Potosi

Blanche et claire

Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

Les Cinq Soeurs

Que sont mes camarades devenus

No Return Possible

Paradjanov Libéré

One Coffee, One

Histoire d’amour : Colombe et Avedis

Histoire d’une sculpture

Ipoustéguy et son oeuvre sculptée

Portrait de Michel Chion

Germaine Tillion : la république des cousins

L' Œuf noir du soldat blanc

Albertine ou Les Souvenirs parfumés de Marie-Rose

Assistant Director

Le Droit à la parole

Ce n'est qu'un début

Berlin 68 - Rudi Dutschke

First Assistant Director

Au Hasard Balthazar

Assistant Director

Cérémonie pour une victoire

Les pieds dans les nuages (et la tête dans la lune)

Movies (Acting)

Emergency Kisses