Session chaired by : Laurent Roth, author and director
Marie-José Sanselme is a screenwriter and translator. After studying literature, she worked as a cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Tel Aviv (1994-1998). Kippour (2000) marked the beginning of her collaboration with Amos Gitaï, with whom she has since written the screenplays for several feature films: Eden (2001), Kedma (2002), Alila (2003), Promised Land (2004), Free Zone (2005), Disengagement (2007), Plus tard tu comprendras, (2008), Roses à crédit (2010), Ana Arabia (2013), Tsili (2014), Le Dernier Jour d'Yitzhak Rabin (2015), Un Tramway à Jérusalem (2018) and for theater La Guerre des fils de lumière contre les fils des ténèbres(2009) and Yitzhak Rabin: chronique d'un assassinat (2016) .
She is also deputy editor-in-chief of the Revue internationale d'éducation de Sèvres.
At the crossroads of fiction, documentary and theater, Laurent Roth's work explores the intersecting links between memory and image. Feature film screenwriter (Jean-Daniel Pollet, Vincent Dieutre, Dominique Cabrera, Fleur Albert). Director (Les Yeux brûlés (1986), L'Impromptu de Jacques Copeau (1993), J'ai quitté l'Aquitaine (2005), La Joie, le film (2015), Pierre Schoendoerffer, la peine des hommes (2017) L'Emmuré de Paris (2018). Playwright: La Chose (2007), La Joie (2010). A former critic with Cahiers du Cinéma and France Culture, he was also a programmer at the états-généraux de Lussas (1995-2000), at the FID in Marseille, where he was artistic director from 1999 to 2001, and at Ciné-Citoyen (Paris), where he was founder and moderator from 1998 to 2008. Prix découverte audiovisuel de la Scam 2016. Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.
Laurent Roth is currently working on a film portrait of Amos Gitai with INA and Ciné +: Amos Gitai, le territoire et la carte.
