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French filmmaker
Known for
Les Misérables, À voix haute : La Force de la parole
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3 January 1978(Mali, Mali)
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Biography
Ladj Ly is a French film director and screenwriter. He won a Jury Prize in Cannes Film Festival for Les Misérables in 2019. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
His parents are from Mali and grew up in Montfermeil, district of Bosquets. He started making films with his friends. Les Miserables was his first non-documentary film directed.