Béatrice Bakhti

United States

Biography

Born in Boston in 1959, film director Béatrice Bakhti is a graduate of the London International Film School, after graduating at Geneva Universty, Faculty of Psychology. In London she worked during four years as assistant film editor, then editor for Channel 4 and the BBC. Since 1992, as independent director of documentary films and editor with Troubadour Films in Geneva, she also works with Télévision Suisse Romande as director for a number TV programs. She is currently director for Signes, a program for deaf and hearing-impaired people.
Since 1992 Béatrice Bakhti has been directing for Troubadour Films a series of four documentary films about adolescence: Teen Stories. Concurrently with this long range project, she has, among others, co-directed Traditional Flavours of Switzerland (2001-2003) with Nasser Bakhti, and was responsible for editing the feature film Night Shadows and the TV series Here’s to Love! both directed by Nasser Bakhti.

Filmography:

Traditional Flavours of Switzerland - together with Nasser Bakhti (Switzerland, 2003)
Romans d´Ados/ Teen Stories (4x90´, Switzerland, 2010)

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Romans d'ados / TEEN STORIES 1 – The End Of Innocence

Romans d'ados / TEEN STORIES 1 – The End Of Innocence (Orig.) / Switzerland / 98 min

Story about how difficult it is to leave the innocence of childhood behind and to discover the turmoil of adolescence.

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Romans d'ados / TEEN STORIES 2 - Crisis

Romans d'ados / TEEN STORIES 2 - Crisis (Orig.) / 2010 / Switzerland / 104 min

The boys’ voices break; the girls see their bodies change...

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Romans d'ados / TEEN STORIES 3 – Lost illusions

Romans d'ados / TEEN STORIES 3 – Lost illusions (Orig.) / 2010 / Switzerland / 98 min

The difficulties of adolescence but also the first flirts, sexual experiences and jobs shake...

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Romans d'ados / TEEN STORIES 4 – Nearly Adults but…

Romans d'ados / TEEN STORIES 4 – Nearly Adults but… (Orig.) / 2010 / Switzerland / 106 min

The seven teens from western Switzerland, who have been followed since their pre-adolescence, are now almost eighteen years old and faced with their coming of age!

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Single Shot Indonesia

For more than 10 years, Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich has been returning to the homeland of his parents to observe and record the transformation of Indonesia in the turbulent years of economic and cultural globalization. The Dafilms portal presents all of the three parts of his famous documentary trilogy, including the latest film Position among the Stars. On the backdrop of the tension in Indonesian society, Helmrich’s camera follows the Sjamsuddin family living their daily lives of work and worries, mutual love and hatred. In the week from May 21, you can watch the first two parts of the trilogy; The Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon; for free.

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