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name: "Sabine Lancelin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sabine-lancelin"
fi1m_id: "sabine-lancelin"
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tmdb_id: 213278
wikidata_id: "Q2209797"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "22 December 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
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# Sabine Lancelin

## Identity

Sabine Lancelin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sabine-lancelin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sabine-lancelin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0484225
- **TMDB ID:** 213278
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2209797
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2209797, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484225/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213278

Cinematographer. Born 22 December 1959 in Leopoldville, Belgian Congo [now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo].

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 22 December 1959, Leopoldville, Belgian Congo [now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo]
- **Active:** 1998–2000
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2209797, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484225/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213278

## Biography

Sabine Lancelin is a French cinematographer born on 22 December 1959 in Kinshasa, then Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo.

She began working in the camera department in the 1980s and made her feature debut as director of photography in the mid-1990s. Lancelin has photographed films by Philippe Grandrieux (*Sombre*, 1998), Chantal Akerman (*The Captive*, 2000; *Tomorrow We Move*, 2004), Manoel de Oliveira (including *I'm Going Home*, 2001; *Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl*, 2009; *The Strange Case of Angelica*, 2010), Michel Piccoli, Éric Rohmer, Raoul Ruiz and others. Since 2017 she has directed the image department at La Fémis film school.

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Captive* (2000), Fi1m 72, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-captive.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *Stranger* (2024), Assistant Director of Photography
- *We Are on Air* (2024), Director of Photography
- *Dora* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Made in Bangladesh* (2019), Director of Photography
- *Our Madness* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Madness* (2018), Cinematography
- *Not on My Watch* (2017), Director of Photography
- *4 Days in France* (2016), Director of Photography
- *La Loi de Christophe* (2016), Director of Photography
- *Sugarcane Shadows* (2014), Director of Photography
- *L'autre vie* (2014), Camera Operator
- *Half-Sister* (2013), Director of Photography
- *De l'usage du sex toy en temps de crise* (2013), Director of Photography
- *As If We Were Catching a Cobra* (2012), Cinematography
- *101* (2012), Cinematography
- *The Last Screening* (2011), Cinematography
- *The Strange Case of Angelica* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Ao: The Last Hunter* (2010), Director of Photography
- *The King of Escape* (2009), Cinematography
- *Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl* (2009), Director of Photography
- *East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton* (2009), Director of Photography
- *Christopher Columbus, The Enigma* (2007), Director of Photography
- *Belhorizon* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Belle Toujours* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Water* (2006), Cinematography
- *The Fifth Empire* (2004), Cinematography
- *Tomorrow We Move* (2004), Director of Photography
- *A Falha* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Like An Airplane* (2002), Director of Photography
- *I’m Going Home* (2001), Director of Photography
- *The Black Beach* (2001), Director of Photography
- *The Captive* (2000), Director of Photography — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-captive.md)
- *Sombre* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Bésame mucho* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Ship of Dreams* (1996), Cinematography, Director of Photography
- *Sept en attente* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Boyfriends and Girlfriends* (1987), Assistant Camera

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