Joël Louis Jent
Producer, Screenwriter, Director
- Website
- www.joeljent.com
Born in 1983, grew up in Toggenburg (Switzerland). 2004-10 Joël Jent pursued a program of study in film, political science, philosophy and social/economic history at University of Zurich, which he completed in 2010 with a Master of Arts degree. He then worked briefly as a journalist. Since 2003, Joël Jent has written THE BLIND FERRYMAN (2024), EATING THE SILENCE (2021), WINDOWLESS (2019) and produced several short- and feature films (THE SAINT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW, FACING MECCA, BON VOYAGE, IRAQI ODYSSEY). He directs documentary and fiction, i.e. EATING THE SILENCE, VIVRE LE PIANO (2009) and DÉSAMOUR (2014) and is a winner of the SSA grant (Société Suisse des Auteurs). Joël Jent is a member of the European- and the Swiss Film Academy and he is alumni of the Zurich Film Festival Academy Class (2006), the EFP Producers on the Move program (2016), the Hezayah Screenwriting Lab (2021) and EsoDoc European Social Documentary (2023). He is father to one son and 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
- 2008
- Frühlings erwachen by Joël Louis Jent
- 2007
- Im Lift by Joël Louis Jent
- 2006
- La paix blanche by Joël Louis Jent
- 2005
- Revolution ohne Nelken 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