Valentin Noujaïm

Valentin Noujaïm is a French-Lebanese filmmaker and artist based between Paris and Athens. A graduate of La Fémis (FR) and former guest student at the Städelschule (DE), he works across film, installation, sculpture, and research-driven narrative forms, investigating how individuals and communities survive spiritual, political, and architectural collapse. Working across 16mm, Super 8, archival material, digital footage, CCTV systems, and experimental visual effects, Noujaïm constructs hybrid cinematic worlds where myth, memory, and urban legend merge. A central axis of his practice examines the architectures that shape contemporary life — business districts, industrial ruins, financial towers, ports, bunkers, and suburban infrastructures — approached as psychic territories haunted by violence, desire, and the ghosts of modernity. He is the author of the La Défense Trilogy. The first chapter, Pacific Club (2022), premiered at CPH:DOX (DK), where it received a Special Mention, and was shortlisted for the 2024 César Awards. The second film, To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (2024), had its world premiere in the Tiger Shorts Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL...