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Régis Sauder
Régis Sauder was born in 1970 in Forbach, and now lives in Marseille. He is the author and director of about ten short documentary films broadcast on France Télévisions and Arte channels, as well as installations for theater and museums.
From 2017 to 2019, he chaired ACID, the independent film distribution association, and in that capacity participated in professional negotiations governing documentary filmmaking. He is a frequent guest on numerous committees, notably at the CNC (National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image), the SCAM (French Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers), and regional councils. He also teaches at the Lussas Documentary School and Cinéfabrique in Lyon, and has given presentations at La Fémis and the École Nationale Supérieure de Lyon (National Film School of Lyon). From 2022 to 2025, he co-chaired the Friends of Cinéma du Réel association.
He is the writer and director of several feature-length documentaries for cinema, selected for festivals including Cinéma du Réel, FID, Estates General du documentary, and Visions du Réel, as well as internationally for RIDM, the San Francisco Film Festival, and Zinebi. His feature films have been primarily produced and distributed by Shellac, with the exception of * Retour à Forbach *, produced and distributed by Les Alchimistes. In 2021, * I liked living there * , his fourth feature film, was released in theaters, featuring Anne Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Following this collaboration, he published two texts: one in the Cahier de l'Herne dedicated to the writer, and the other in *La Femelle du Requin*, also dedicated to her. The film, shot in Cergy, is also part of the project for an ideal film archive of the world's suburbs, designed by Alice Diop with the Ateliers Médicis and the Center Pompidou. In En Nous , he reunites with the people he filmed ten years earlier in Nous, Princesses de Clèves . The film opens the 2022 edition of Cinéma du Réel at the Center Pompidou.