Quentin Papapietro
Biography
Born in Limoges in 1987, graduate of ESAV and former critic at Cahiers du cinéma, Quentin Papapietro has shot around twenty short films in ten years, including 40A service Pierrick (2020) broadcast on Canal+, as well as two feature films, Water Music (2014) and En Fumée (2018). His films, selected at major festivals in France and internationally, were the subject of a mini-retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française in 2019.
Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as The Caretaker
In a large building in a Parisian district, Elsa lives alone. Her young neighbor Alice hears her playing the piano at home and enjoys it. Elsa suggests that she learn the piano and offers to play it at home, when she is not there. Alice thus gets into the habit of living in Elsa's apartment several times a week.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Five young men leave the french Atlantic shore to go on a music tour in a beat up old van. Aiming for Switzerland and taking every opportunity to swim, they keep close to rivers and lakes. Their meandering journey leads them into Eastern Europe, meeting musicians and discovering ancestral links between improvisational music and the transmission of folklore in a brave new world dominated by mass media culture. A testimony of August 2011 in Europe and how to recycle songs and cinema history without using the usual maps.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Jérôme Cocker
For a residency organized by the University, Miranda Ackerman, a writer, returns to Caen where she lived a decade earlier. She is astonished to discover that the University is hosting her in the very house where she lived with Richard, her partner at the time. Richard now teaches at the university. As they reconnect, she begins to be disturbed by presences in the house.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Bianca doesn't know how to live anymore. She asks her friends about their daily life, but that doesn't help. So, she goes further and starts spying on them thanks to small cameras that she hides at home. By observing them, she hopes to forget her own pain and discover a little of theirs.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as himself
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Homme dans le bar/Le cycliste
Arnaud, a student remaining alone in Paris during the summer, is obsessed with the wall where the names of the Parisian soldiers who died in the 1914 war are engraved. He finds himself confronted by one of these soldiers, who invites him to step out of time and to bring comfort to his loved ones.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After a break-up, Jimmy has returned to live in the neighborhood where he lived as a student. He knows the streets, cafes, and discussions among friends by heart. And yet, this afternoon, everything seems foreign to him, apart from his sorrow.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaleda in southern Spain.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
As the title suggests, Père et fille tells the story of a father growing up alone with his daughter after the premature death of the mother. If the premise is sad, director Quentin Papapietro manages to build a comedy in which the feeling of heartwarming fatherly love is staged with intelligence, and a great sense of cinema. With humour and a hint of absurdity, Père et fille offers a new way to consider family films.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Pierre
Paris, Boris and Alexis are trying to give a meaning to their idleness. In the countryside, Pierre is achieving his opera, which is a new take on the myth of Orpheus, while trying to forget Adelia, who just dumped him.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.