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Director of documentary films on cinema.
He won the Golden Lion for Best Documentary at the Venice Film Festival in 2015 with the portrait of Canadian director Guy Maddin, “The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin“.He is also the author of a portrait of Michael Haneke, “Michael H. Profession: director“, which will be released in many countries, as well as a dozen documentaries on Asian cinema, including “Ghibli and the Mystery of Miyazaki” (Arte, 2005), “In the Mood for Doyle” (on Wong Kar- wai’s cinematographer, Arte, 2006), “Yakuza eiga” (Arte, 2009) and “Dragon Girls: asian warriors in pop culture” (Arte, 2016). He has just finished a portrait of the director Takeshi Kitano (Arte 2020) and a web documentary on Martial Arts and political movements ‘Kung Fu Revolution(s)’. Yves Montmayeur is also a journalist and conducts numerous Master Classes at international film festivals from Cannes to Rangoon (Michelle Yeoh, Nicolas Winding Refn, Tilda Swinton, Zhang Ziyi…). Finally, Yves is also the author of TV reports on contemporary art, Japanese pop culture and cinema for Tracks program broadcast on Arte TV.”