Director Janloup Bernard wins the 2026 Author Pathway Support (Aide au parcours d'auteurices)

As part of its policy to structure professional pathways in cinema and the audiovisual sector, the Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine and ALCA are creating a dedicated grant entitled "Pathway Support (Aide au parcours)", intended for experienced writers and writer-directors from Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Janloup Bernard and four other successful applicants are receiving this human and financial support from October 2026 to October 2028.

Biography

After a master's degree in social anthropology at Lumière University Lyon 2, Janloup entered La Fémis in the directing department. He has directed several short films shown at festivals. In 2022 he co-directed Fief, followed by Savoir vivre, based on David Lopez. In 2024 he co-founded the company 3B. He is working on writing his first feature film as well as a documentary about the muralist artist Xabier Tapia.

Current projects

100 jours (working title): The documentary follows Xabi Tapia, known as Xabxab, a Basque muralist artist, in a project as disproportionate as it is intimate: painting 100 murals in 100 days across the Basque Country, based on the broken-down movement of a traditional dance. Over the course of this journey between roads, villages and landscapes, the film accompanies less the creation of a work than the portrait of a man in the process of reclaiming a heritage: a departed father, a language incompletely passed down, a territory to be rediscovered.

Narah, Negua, Nina: Narah, a young woman from Bayonne, joins the Basque independence struggle and becomes Negua within a clandestine group. Imprisoned and then having escaped, she disappears and rebuilds her life in exile under the name of Nina.

Selective filmography

• J'avais un camarade / 2022 / Fiction. Directed by Janloup Bernard / Screenplay by Janloup Bernard and Victor Jestin / Mauvaise Troupe Productions.
• Loin du Sud / 2019 / Fiction. Directed by: Janloup Bernard / Screenplay: Janloup Bernard and Naila Guiget / Graduation film - Directing department. La Fémis.
• La Vie active / 2018 / Fiction. Directed by Janloup Bernard / Screenplay by Victor Jestin. Graduation film production department. La Fémis.
• Dernier été / 2018 / Fiction / Directed by Janloup Bernard / Screenplay by Janloup Bernard and Pablo Leridon.