Isidore Bethel

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Isidore Bethel
Born
DOC NYC "40 Under 40"[3]

Isidore Bethel is a

Acts of Love, which French actor Francis Leplay co-directed, premiered at Hot Docs, received the Tacoma Film Festival's Best Feature Award, and appeared on MovieWeb's list of the top LGBTQ+ films of 2021.[9][10][11]

Films he has edited have screened at

IMCINE and FONCA funds.[29][30][31][32][33] Critics have characterized his editing as demonstrative of "admirable restraint," "tender," "astute," and "elegant."[34][35][36][37]

A graduate of

Filmography

Feature films

Year Title Editor Director Producer Writer Notes
2013 Grandir Yes No No No Directed by Dominique Cabrera. ACID Cannes.[55]
2014 Of Men and War Yes No Yes No Credited as associate producer. Directed by Laurent Bécue-Renard. Cannes Film Festival.
2016
La Balada del Oppenheimer Park
Yes No Yes No Directed by Juan Manuel Sepúlveda. Best Documentary nominee at the Mexican Academy Awards.[56]
2018 Caballerango Yes No No No Directed by Juan Pablo González. IDFA.[57]
2018 Liam No Yes Yes Yes Jury Prize in the Documentary section of the Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
2020 So Late So Soon Yes No Yes No Credited as associate producer. Directed by Daniel Hymanson. True/False.[58]
2021
Acts of Love
No Yes Yes Yes Co-directed with Francis Leplay. Hot Docs.
2022 What We Leave Behind Yes No Yes Yes Directed by Iliana Sosa.
SXSW.[59]
2023 Hummingbirds Yes No Yes No Credited as co-producer. Directed by Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía Contreras. Generation 14plus Grand Prize at the
Berlinale.[60]
2023 The Taste of Mango Yes No No No Directed by Chloe Abrahams. BFI London Audience Award, BIFA for Best Debut Director.[61][62]

Short films

Year Title Editor Director Producer Writer Notes
2011 "Someone I Love or Someone Who I Want to Be" Yes Yes Yes Yes Harvard
Hoopes Prize.[63]
2013 "Goat Milk" Yes No No No Directed by Dominique Cabrera. Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival.[64]
2016 "We Eat the Earth/The Earth Eats Us" Yes No Yes No Credited as associate producer. Directed by Lucy Pawlak. Athens Digital Arts Festival.[65]
2016 "We Died and Here We Are" Yes No Yes No Directed by Mohamad Kanaan. Ashkal Alwan's Video Works 2016 at the Beirut Art Center.[66]
2021 "Some Kind of Intimacy" Yes No Yes Yes Directed by Toby Bull. Sundance London.[67]
2022 "Blue Room" Yes No Yes No Credited as associate producer. Directed by Merete Mueller. AFI Fest.[68]
2022 "Suddenly TV" Yes No No No Credited as consulting editor. Directed by Roopa Gogineni. Documentary Short Special Jury Award at
SXSW.[69]

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