Joël Louis Jent
Producer, Screenwriter, Director
- Website
- www.joeljent.com
Born in 1983, he grew up in Toggenburg, Switzerland. Joint Swiss and French citizenship. He holds a Master of Arts in film, political science and social/economic history from the University of Zurich. Since 2003 he was the screenwriter for WINDOWLESS (2019), EATING THE SILENCE (2021), THE BLIND FERRYMAN (2024), and has produced several short and feature films, among them THE SAINT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW, FACING MECCA, BON VOYAGE, IRAQI ODYSSEY. He directs documentary and fiction and is a winner of the SSA grant (Société Suisse des Auteurs). He is a member of the European Film Academy, the Swiss Film Academy and is alumni of the Zurich Film Festival Master Class (2006), the EFP Producers on the Move programme (2016), the Hezayah Screenwriting Lab (2021) and EsoDoc European Social Documentary Program (2023). He works as an independent filmmaker and screenwriter in Zurich.
Filmography
(a selection)
Director
- 2026
- Rebelión de la Memoria by Joël Louis Jent
- 2020
- Eating the Silence by Joël Louis Jent, Ali Al-Fatlawi
- 2013
- Désamour by Joël Louis Jent
- 2009
- Vivre le piano by Joël Louis Jent
- 2006
- La paix blanche by Joël Louis Jent
Screenwriter
- 2026
- Rebelión de la Memoria by Joël Louis Jent
- 2024
- Al Baseer – Der blinde Fährmann by Ali Al-Fatlawi
- 2020
- Eating the Silence by Joël Louis Jent, Ali Al-Fatlawi
- 2019
- Fensterlos by Samuel Flückiger
- 2013
- Désamour by Joël Louis Jent
- 2009
- Vivre le piano by Joël Louis Jent
Producer
- 2020
- The Saint of the Impossible by Marc Wilkins
- 2020
- Radiograph of a Family by Firouzeh Khosrovani
- 2019
- Baghdad in my Shadow by Samir
- 2019
- Fensterlos by Samuel Flückiger
- 2019
- Shalom Allah by David Vogel
- 2017
- Facing Mecca by Jan-Eric Mack
- 2016
- Bon voyage by Marc Wilkins
- 2015
- Nachtlicht by Samuel Flückiger
- 2014
- Iraqi Odyssey by Samir
- 2014
- 2 Francos 40 Pesetas by Carlos Iglesias
- 2013
- Désamour by Joël Louis Jent
- 2010
- Kings Of The Gambia by David Vogel
- 2009
- Vivre le piano by Joël Louis Jent