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Yann les Jours was born in Lyon (France), he lives and works in Berlin (Germany).

He studied History of Arts and English literature at Lyon II Lumières University. He attended the Documentary Summer School at Locarno Film Festival and Ji.lhava IDFF Academy.

His debut short film "Repetitions" had its world premiere in 2022 at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. 

In 2023/24 Yann created three short experimental documentaries where distinct poetic structures would set the architecture for his films:
-The haiku "Mars" premiered at Short Waves Poznań in the RAW Competition.
-The villanelle "kindergarten" premiered at 20minmax Ingolstadt ISFF.
Those two films were part of the official selection of L'Alternativa Film Festival at CCCB Barcelona in 2024. kindergarten won the International Short Film Prize of that competition.
-The sonnet "Sonnet" will premiere at ShorTS IFF (Trieste, Italy) in June 2025.

In 2024 he started a research collaboration with viola improviser Marie Takahashi entitled E(oe), where his filmic experimentations on empathy mechanisms on screen meet the player's musical responses. The public version of this research project premiered very late at night at OHM club, Berlin, within the KOOKOO party of 12th January 2024.

Besides those films, Yann has also directed music videos for Mary Ocher (premiered at Leeds IFF 2021), TIN and Manu Louis.

email : yannlesjours@gmail.com  
phone: +33688047830