Kahn, Cédric

(June 17, 1966, Paris, France - )

   Having graduated from the IDHEC, he worked as a trainee assistant editor (1987 Sous le Soleil de Satan / UK: Under Satan's Sun / USA: Under the Sun of Satan, Maurice Pialat), assistant editor (36 Fillette / UK: Virgin, Catherine Breillat), and editor (1993 L'Exposé, short, Ismaël Ferroukhi). He co-wrote three movies (1990 Outremer / UK and USA: Overseas, Brigitte Rouan; 1993 Les Gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel / UK: There's Nothing Special About Normal People / USA: Normal People Are Nothing Special / Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional, Laurence Ferreira Barbosa; 2006 Les Ambitieux, Catherine Corsini) and appeared in one feature-length film (1996 N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir, Xavier Beauvois) and a documentary (2005 Lettre à un jeune Cinéaste, as himself, episode "Cédric Kahn", Lionel Boisseau). In 1994, he received the Jean Vigo Prize for Trop de Bonheur.

 Filmography

        ◘ Nadir (video short)

        ◘ Les Dernières Heures du Millénaire (short; also screenwriter)

1992 ◘ Bar des Rails (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

1994 ◘ Trop de Bonheur (originally shot as Bonheur for Tous les Garçons et les Filles de leur Âge; TV miniseries; also co-screenwriter; shot in 1992)

1998 ◘ L'Ennui / O tédio (also co-screenwriter; France / Portugal)

2001 ◘ Roberto Succo (also screenwriter; France / Switzerland)

        ◘ Feux rouges / USA: Red Lights (also co-screenwriter; shot in 2002)

        ◘ L'Avion (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France / Germany)

 Television Filmography

1996 ◘ Culpabilité Zéro / USA: Zero Guilt (also co-screenwriter)