Sarah Leonor

Born in 1970 in Strasbourg, Sarah Leonor grew up in Mulhouse, where as an adolescent she took up photography and discovered cinema as an open window to the world. Back in Strasbourg, she studied art history and Russian for two years and then started working with the film magazine Limelight. With a friend who was studying cinematography at the Ecole Louis Lumière she co-directed a first short documentary, Napoli 90’ (1994). After Les limbes (1997), she made L’arpenteur (2001) in collaboration with Michel Klein, a medium-length film that won the Jean Vigo Prize the following year and that recounts the first trip to Armenia made by Avédis, a young Frenchman of Armenian origin employed to draw up plans for a road that will link two villages in the south of the country. A Real Life (aka Au Voleur) is her first feature film.

Filmography

2009	A Real Life (aka Au Voleur), feature film Locarno Int. Film Festival 2009 – Official Competition
2003	La Goutte d'Or, short documentary
2002	Le lac et la rivière, short film
2001	L'Arpenteur. short film *Prix Jean Vigo 2002* Pantin Short Film Festival 2002 – Best Actor, Press Jury Special Mention
1997	Les Limbes, short film