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Hubert Sauper

Hubert Sauper

Director

Hubert Sauper is a world-renowned filmmaker, director of Sundance winner We Come as Friends and the Oscar-nominated Darwin’s Nightmare.

He studied film directing in Vienna (Univ. of Performing Arts). In 1994 he emigrated to France and wrote a thesis about French movie director Ciryl Collard in Université Der Paris VIII and graduated B.A.(Mag. art). Actually Hubert teaches film classes in Europe and the United States while he directs his documentaries. The last two documentaries he wrote and directed were awarded twelve International Film Prizes.

Filmography

2020 Epicentro (Documentary)
2018 Die Backstage Show (TV Special)
2014 We Come as Friends (Documentary)
2007 Laissez-les grandir ici! (Documentary short) (co-director)
2004 Darwin's Nightmare (Documentary)
2002 Alone with Our Stories
1998 Kisangani Diary (Documentary)
1994 Also schlafwandle ich am hellichten Tage
1993 Ich habe die angenehme Aufgabe
1990 Der Blasi
1990 Piraten in Österreich
1989 Era Max (Short)

Hubert Sauper's films at RIFF
Epicentro
Documentaries
Year: 2020
An immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine...