When French director Ladj Ly was 17 years old, he bought a camera and began to document interactions with the police in his neighborhood of Montfermeil in Paris, eventually capturing a real incident ...

Growing up as a young boy in Mali, Ladj Ly was influenced by American films. "I watched a lot of films with African-Americans actors," he says, citing "Menace to Society," "New Jack City" and "Boyz n ...

The lauded "Les Misérables" filmmaker will return to the festival with his latest French feature. This year’s Toronto International Film Festival is continuing to take shape. Today, the festival has ...

Logline: Set largely in an underprivileged Parisian suburb, Ladj Ly’s follow-up to Les Misérables (TIFF ’19) is an incendiary indictment of racist policies that force the poor into unsafe and ...

His first feature has been nominated for an Oscar, but Ladj Ly has even bigger goals: Make French cinema make room for more filmmakers like him. Ladj Ly’s racially charged feature debut, “Les ...

French director Ladj Ly is at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend with second feature Les Indésirables. Like Ly’s breakthrough first feature Les Misérables, it is set and shot against ...

Ly opens on a high note: the July, 2018, day when France wins the World Cup. People of every class and colour wrap themselves in the French flag and sing in the streets around the Arc de Triomphe, and ...

Ladj Ly, the French filmmaker behind ”Les Misérables,” will return to the Toronto International Film Festival with his latest drama, “Les Indésirables.” The film will have its world premiere at the ...

Near the end of the political drama “Les Indésirables,” a precisely angled wide shot of a run-down apartment complex depicts the immigrant families that have inhabited it for many years throwing their ...

It has been an extra­ordinary six months for filmmaker Ladj Ly and producers Toufik Ayadi and Christophe Barral, the team behind Les Misérables, an incendiary first feature capturing tensions between ...

Exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev's latest film, Minotaur, won the second-highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival and was selected to represent France at the Oscars. - 'Outsider'- Last ...

Readers of classic literature know Montfermeil as the Parisian suburb that partly inspired Victor Hugo‘s 1862 novel “Les Misérables.” To French filmmaker Ladj Ly, it’s the neighborhood he grew up in ...