Isidore Bethel

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1989-01-01 (35 years old)

Isidore Bethel

Biography

Isidore Bethel is an editor, director, and producer whom Filmmaker named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2020. His work uses filmmaking to make sense of overwhelming experiences and touches on recurrent themes of displacement, grief, therapy, aging, trauma, and sexuality. His first feature film as director, Liam, premiered at the Boston LGBT Film Festival in 2018 and received the Jury Prize in the Documentary section of the Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival. His second film, Acts of Love, co-directed with French actor Francis Leplay, premiered at Hot Docs in 2021. The films he has edited and produced have screened at Cannes (Official and ACID sections), IDFA, Visions du Réel, Cinéma du Réel, True/False, and MoMA's Documentary Fortnight. In addition to working in the United States, Mexico, and France, he has also edited and produced films with filmmakers in Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, and Turkey. Critics have characterized his work as demonstrative of "admirable restraint," "Wiseman-esque," "tender," and "elegant."

Known For

Director

2021
Acts of Love

as Director

2018
Liam

as Director

Editor

2024
2023
Hummingbirds

as Editor

2023
unseen

as Consulting Editor

2022
Blue Room

as Editor

2022
2021
2020
So Late So Soon

as Editor

2018
Horse Wrangler

as Editor

2014
Of Men and War

as Editor

Producer

2022
Blue Room

as Producer

2022
What We Leave Behind

as Co-Producer

2021
Acts of Love

as Producer

2021
2020
So Late So Soon

as Associate Producer

2018
Horse Wrangler

as Consulting Producer

2018
Liam

as Producer

2014
Of Men and War

as Producer

Writer

2022
2021
2021
Acts of Love

as Writer

2018
Liam

as Writer

Actor