---
name: "Ladj Ly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ladj-ly"
fi1m_id: "ladj-ly"
imdb_id: "nm1868177"
tmdb_id: 144817
wikidata_id: "Q65134137"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "3 January 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:21:33.316298+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ladj Ly

## Identity

Ladj Ly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ladj-ly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ladj-ly
- **IMDb ID:** nm1868177
- **TMDB ID:** 144817
- **Wikidata ID:** Q65134137
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladj_Ly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65134137, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1868177/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/144817

Director. Born 3 January 1978 in Mali.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 3 January 1978, Mali
- **Also known as:** 래드 리
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladj_Ly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65134137, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1868177/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/144817

## Coming up

- *Dumas: Black Devil* (2027-10-13), Director

## Biography

Ladj Ly is a French film director and screenwriter. Born in Paris in 1978 to parents from Mali, he grew up in the Montfermeil district.

He began making videos and documentaries in the mid-1990s as part of the Kourtrajmé collective with childhood friends including Kim Chapiron and Romain Gavras. His early works include the documentary *365 jours à Clichy-Montfermeil* (2006), filmed after the 2005 riots.

Ly’s narrative feature debut *Les Misérables* (2019), which he wrote and directed, premiered in competition at Cannes, where it won the Jury Prize. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best International Feature Film. He has since directed *Athena* (2022) and *Les Indésirables* (2023).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Les Misérables* (2019), Fi1m 77, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/les-miserables-2019.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dumas: Black Devil* (2027), Director, Writer
- *Short cuts :  Ladj Ly's Les Misérables* (2025), Original Film Writer
- *Les Indésirables* (2023), Director, Screenplay
- *Hood Witch* (2023), Producer
- *Mercy* (2023), Screenplay
- *Athena* (2022), Screenplay, Producer
- *Five-O* (2022), Producer
- *Fake News* (2021), Co-Producer
- *Dans ma forêt de ciment* (2021), Producer
- *Narvalos* (2021), Producer
- *Homemade* (2020), series, Producer, Writer, Director
- *Imani* (2020), Delegated Producer
- *Les Misérables* (2019), Director, Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/les-miserables-2019.md)
- *The World Is Yours* (2018), as Paoudré
- *The Clichy-Montfermeil Chronicles* (2017), Director
- *Speak Up* (2017), Director
- *Les Misérables* (2017), Director, Writer
- *Les Bosquets* (2015), Actor
- *Our Day Will Come* (2010), as Jeune noir tchat vidéo
- *Twenty Show: The Film* (2009), Writer
- *Go Fast Connexion* (2008), Director
- *365 jours à Clichy Montfermeil* (2006), Director, Editor, Cinematography
- *Infrarouge* (2006), series, Director
- *Satan* (2006), as Ladj
- *Le Chat d'la grand mère d'Abdel Krim* (2003), Actor
- *Easy Pizza Riderz* (2002), Actor
- *Tarubi, l'arabe strait 2* (2001), Actor

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won, 4 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Film 2019: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Les Misérables*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2019: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *Les Misérables*
- European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 2019: European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year (won), for *Les Misérables*
- Jury Prize 2019: Jury Prize (won), for *Les Misérables*
- César Award for Best Documentary Film 2018: César Award for Best Documentary Film (nominated), for *À voix haute - La force de la parole*
- César Award for Best Short Film 2018: César Award for Best Short Film (nominated), for *Les Misérables*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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