Joël Jent Trailers
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Joël Jent was born in Switzerland in 1983. He grew up in a Christian cult. The day he turned 18 he packed his belongings in a bag, threw it on his motorcycle and took off into an uncertain future. He pursued a program of study in film, political science and social history at University of Zurich, which he completed in 2010 (Master of Arts). He then worked briefly as a journalist. Since 2003, Joël Jent has written THE BLIND FERRYMAN (2024), EATING THE SILENCE (2021), WINDOWLESS (2019) and produced several short- and feature films (THE SAINT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW, FACING MECCA, BON VOYAGE, IRAQI ODYSSEY). He directs documentary and fiction, i.e. EATING THE SILENCE, VIVRE LE PIANO and DÉSAMOUR and is a winner of the SSA grant (Société Suisse des Auteurs). Joël Jent is a member of the European- and the Swiss Film Academy and alumnus of IDFA Project Space (2025), IDFAcademy (2024), EsoDoc European Social Documentary (2023), the Hezayah Screenwriting Lab (2021) and Cannes Producer on the Move Program (2016). He is father to one son and works as an independent filmmaker and screenwriter in Zurich. His future is still uncertain.
Most Popular Joël Jent Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
21 June 2017
Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
01 June 2016
Jonas and Silvia are enjoying a wonderful sailing holiday in the Mediterranean sea. But while sailing through the night, far away from land, they discover an overloaded refugee boat, close to sinking.
24 October 2023
Maria, a Mexican migrant, is pregnant. Her husband Giorgio is sterile. She conceals the pregnancy from him out of fear he might suspect infidelity.
14 July 2020
It has been 35 years since Maria left her newborn in a baby window. With the help of the authorities, she tracks down her daughter and meets Caroline for the first time.
06 September 2014
Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of dictatorship, war and foreign occupation of Iraq.
22 October 2020
A murder, a police raid and a photo of a mysterious girl; a young mother must piece together her twin son's secret romantic life, in order to find out what happened to them.
28 March 2014
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland.
21 June 2015
Young brothers Konrad and Baschi get into a fight that spirals out of control and leads to dire consequences.
24 June 2014
Ada and Christoph are standing at the parting of their ways. The assumed closeness between them turns out to be an illusion.
10 July 2013
Fantasizes an 'Old' Middle East, wherein communities were not divided along ethnic and religious line
28 November 2019
A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, the poet Taufiq and the gay IT specialist Muhannad.
23 March 2024
The interactive roadmovie follows the trail of a convicted war criminal with ties to Switzerland. On a journey through contemporary Rwanda, the viewer decides how deeply he wants to immerse himself in the story.
12 October 2016
Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country.
23 November 2020
"Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary.
18 November 2010
The ten-piece afro-helvetic band “King Kora” starts a tour through Gambia, the home country of its kora player and singer Lamin Jobarteh.
11 August 2019
When Muslims are shown in the media, they are often portrayed as the bad guys. And yet every year, over a hundred Swiss people convert to Islam.
19 November 2009
At the age of six, Adilia Alieva recorded her first radio performance. At the age of seven she performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.
13 September 2021
Rolf, a hemiplegic, spends his days dozing on a sofa bed in his dusty apartment. On TV, he learns of a deadly pandemic sweeping around the globe.
