Ladj Ly born 19 March 1980 in Paris is a French film director and screenwriter He won a Jury Prize in Cannes Film Festival for Les Misérables in 2019 The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film Lys parents are from Mali and he grew up in Montfermeil a district of Bosquets He started making films with his friends Kim Chapiron Romain Gavras and JR in the collective Kourtrajmé He directed his first films notably for Oxmo Puccino and his first documentaries 365 jours à ClichyMontfermeil 365 days in ClichyMontfermeil filmed after the 2005 French riots Go Fast Connexion and 365 jours au Mali 365 days in Mali In 2011 Ly was given a threeyear prison sentence for kidnapping and false imprisonment In 2012 the sentence was reduced on appeal to two years imprisonment and one year suspended sentence Les Misérables is the first nondocumentary film he directed The film received many awards notably at the ClermontFerrand International Short Film Festival and a nomination for the César Award for Best Short Film in 2018 In the same year he was nominated for the César Award for Best Documentary Film for À voix haute La Force de la parole with Stéphane de Freitas In 2018 in Montfermeil Ly created a free film school called Lécole Kourtrajmé Source Article Ladj Ly from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30
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