AWARDED MOVIES

The snows of Kilimanjaro

• Lumiere Awards (Paris): best screenplay
• Luz Prize: Winner
• Turia Awards: Best Foreign Film
• Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Film
• Étoiles d'Or (France): Best Female Newcomer / Anaïs Demoustier 
• Cannes Films Festival: in competition
• César Awards: Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
• Globes de Cristal Awards, France: Nominated Best Actor / Jean-Pierre Darroussin 

Lino

• Festival International D-Cinema, Japan : special Prize of the Jury.
• Torino Film Festival : in competition
• Cinemed, Montpellier : in competition
• Festivals de Lunel, Colmar, Lyon, Albi...

Fragile

• Luchon films Festival : special Mention of the Jury.
• Luchon films Festival : best actor / Martin Lamotte.
• Luchon films Festival : «Coup de Cœur» of the Jury / Alain Cauchi.
• Luchon films Festival : promising young actor / Jean-Jérôme Esposito.

Lady Jane

• Berlinale : in competition

Marie-Jo and her two lovers

• Cannes Films Festival : in competition
• César Awards : Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
• European Film Arwards : Nominated Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride

The town is quiet

• Mons films Festival : best screenplay
• European Film Arwards : nomination best scriptwriter
• European Film Arwards : Critics’ Prize
• Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Actress / Ariane Ascaride
• Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Film

Where the heart is

• San Sebastian films Festival : best screenplay - honorable Mention

Marius and Jeannette

• Cannes Films Festival : in competition
• Césars : Nomination best screenplay
• César Awards : Best Actress to Ariane Ascaride
• Prix Louis Delluc: Winner
• Prix Henri Jeanson: Winner
• Lumiere Awards (Paris) : best movie
• Geneva International Film Festival : Grand Prix

À la vie, à la mort !

• Namur International Festival: Best Film

L'argent fait le bonheur

• Rencontres Européennes de Reims: Prix Michel Kûhn

Jean-Louis Milesi was born in Italy, came to France at 2 months old, to Paris at 27 years old, to California at 54.

Graduated from Kindergarden, he flees the university after a few weeks.

He does odd jobs that permit him to discover the heart of a nuclear power plant (just before the Province-Paris fission), also a desert region at the Iran-Iraq border (just before the bombs) and some heady vapors of wine tanks in Provence (just before drunkenness).

He goes to Paris to try film making and becomes a screenwriter without really wanting to, (he just wanted to write his own stories). The films that he writes for Robert Guédiguian are a national and international success (Marius and Jeannette, The town is quiet, Marie-Jo and her 2 lovers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro…).

He goes to California to write some projects. This quaking land shakes his neurons like a tree, some new ideas fall on the floor: his first american movie Don't Give Up The Ghost, and his first novel Les bottes de Clint Eastwood (Clint Eastswood's Boots).

Back in France, he works on the writing of several novels.

Josep, the animated film he wrote for Aurel, was selected at Cannes Film Festival 2020.