Joël Louis Jent

Producer, Screenwriter, Director

Website
www.joeljent.com
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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
2025
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
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