François Lunel

François Lunel is born in Paris in 1971. He is a film maker, a writer and a stage director.

In 1992, at the age of 20, he traveled to besieged Sarajevo and undertook the making of two fiction films, La Promenade and Jours Tranquilles à Sarajevo, tributes to the Bosnian cultural resistance. He continued his filmmaking career in 1996, directing several documentaries for cinema and television, while also beginning to teach at the University of Marne-la-Vallée and later at La Fémis.

Between 1998 and 2012, he directed around ten films, both fiction and documentary. In 2010, he published Keremma (a novel set in Finistère) with Riveneuve Editions.

François Lunel took part in the Annual Selection of Groupe Ouest for the development of his feature film Rochus, co-written with Damir Mujagić. The project was also selected for La Sélection in 2015, an event co-organized by Groupe Ouest and the Gan Foundation for Cinema.

Rochus

Annual Selection 2014, Selection 2015

Tanguy Le Sech, 75 years old, lives in a small village in Brittany. He is a nationalist and a veteran of the Algerian War. His only passion is river fishing. One day, exasperated by the rowdiness of his new neighbours, Tanguy acquires Rochus, a lively and energetic dog he adopts from a kennel. The arrival of Rochus changes his life—and the lives of those around him. When Tanguy loses Rochus after a day of fishing, he is convinced that the villagers are responsible. Seeking revenge, he decapitates the statue of Joan of Arc in the village square.