Frédéric Sojcher began directing short films at a very young age. At the age of 16, he shot a film supported by the CBA, Karmann Ghia, then at 18, Fumeurs de charme, with Serge Gainsbourg and Michael Lonsdale. Since then, he has directed four feature films: Regarde-moi (2000), Cinéastes à tout prix (2004, selected in the Official Selection at Cannes), Hitler à Hollywood (2010, International Critics’ Prize at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, selected at the Venice Film Festival in the “Venice Days” section) and Je veux être actrice (2016). His films explore the bridges between fiction and documentary.

On the academic side, he was awarded the European Prize for the best thesis on cinema by the Italian critics’ union in 1996. From then on, his career was linked to teaching cinema. He was successively a lecturer at INSAS, a lecturer at the University of Rennes and a professor in “cinema practices” at the Sorbonne, where he was appointed Director of the Master’s degree in scriptwriting, directing and production in 2005 and where he still works today.

He has written and coordinated some thirty books on cinema, including La Kermesse héroïque du cinéma belge (L’Harmattan, three volumes, 1999), Main basse sur le film (éditions Séguier, preface by Bertrand Tavernier, 2005), le Manifeste du cinéaste (éditions du Rocher, Prix Jean-Jacques Rousseau de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts, 2009) and Le Fantôme de Truffaut (Impressions Nouvelles, 2016).