Ladj Ly’s politically-charged feature debut, “Les Misérables,” is inspired by the filmmaker’s own experiences as the son of a Malian immigrant. Ly grew up in the harshness of the banlieues, in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ladj Ly, the French filmmaker whose feature debut “Les Miserables” won Cannes’ Jury Prize and earned Oscar and BAFTA nominations, has just started shooting his next film, “Les Indesirables” ...

If Ladj Ly’s Cannes jury prize-winning Les Misérables seems stunningly true to life, that’s because it depicts the environment Ly grew up in down to the last detail. “It’s a scene that I experienced ...

Ladj Ly and Djebril Zonga, the writer-director and co-star, respectively, of the Oscar-nominated Les Misérables, arrived for the Awardsline screening of the film on a very good day: France’s official ...

DirectorLadj Ly’s feature debut “Les Misérables” (2019) borrows a title, heady themes of inequality and police corruption and even a setting (the Parisian suburb of Montfermeil) from Victor Hugo’s ...

The critically acclaimed new film by Ladj Ly, Les Misérables, opens with a scene of teenagers from the disadvantaged suburbs of Paris excitedly heading into the city to celebrate the French team’s ...

Ladj Ly, the French filmmaker whose bold feature debut "Les Misérables" won the jury prize at Cannes in 2019 and earned an Oscar nomination, is set to write and direct "Dumas: Black Devil." The epic ...