Florent Marcie

The documentary, supported by the French independent distributor Les Mutins de Pangée, has been released in several cinemas in France in the fall of 2019 in the presence of the filmmaker.

He was wounded in the head in January 2019 by a police shooting while filming at a demonstration of the Yellow Vest Movement. Following this, Florent Marcie denounced the abusive use of this weapon by police officers in a column for the online newspaper Mediapart.

Florent Marcie attended the Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival in 2019 during which he showed his films and gave a masterclass.

In 2015, the film was presented at a retrospective entitled "War Paintings" (Peintures de guerre) held at the Cinémathèque française as part of the "Avant-Garde Cinema" programme designed by researcher and curator Nicole Brenez. On this occasion, Agence France-Presse highlighted "an exceptional documentary" with "stunning battle scenes" and listed the film as the "third part of a long-lasting fresco devoted to men in war.

In February 2011, Florent Marcie travels to Libya to record the Libyan Revolution of 2011. He spent eight months alongside the Libyan revolutionaries. The film Tomorrow Tripoli tells the story of the Libyan revolution in the small town of Zintan until the fall of Gaddafi. The filmmaker also contributed to cover the conflict for the national and international press with written articles for Le Monde, television reports and interviews for France 24 and several photographs for Agence France-Presse (published in the French and international press). During the film's premiere in Sarajevo, 150 ex-revolutionaries chartered a plane from Tripoli to attend.

In 1996 Florent Marcie went to Chechnya and filmed the war on the rebel side. Captured for three days by the Russian special forces and the FSB, he recounts in a long article for Paris Match in May 1996 " hours of interrogations, violence, threats, torture...and the obligation to drink vodka at gunpoint ". Ten years later, his second feature-length documentary, Itchkéri Kenti, les fils d'Itchkérie (Itchkeri Kenti, people of Itchkeria), was released in France by MK2 Distribution company on 7 February 2007. The film was also selected at the ACID, the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. The movie is a portrait of the Chechen people during the Chechen War of 1996. The film was critically acclaimed, praising both the visual qualities and the historical interest of the film. It was rated 3.9/5 stars by ten press critics on Allociné. The French critic Cécile Mury in Télérama sums up the film, a "long and lively travel diary", in these words:

He also contributed to the making-of the film Le Peuple Migrateur (Winged Migration) directed by French director Jacques Perrin in 2001.

In 1999, Florent Marcie published an extensive report in the French newspaper Le Monde about Taliban exactions in the Shamaly Plain during the Afghan War (1996-2001). The journalist revealed that "in addition to the strictly military objectives of the Taliban, there is now a desire for large-scale displacement of populations, massacres and systematic destruction". In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001, Florent Marcie exhumed his footage shot in Afghanistan and edited two TV news reports for the show Envoyé spécial on French television France 2. The first, aired on September 13, 2001, revealed the Taliban's plans for attacks in the West, held in the jails of Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud's army. It is broadcast worldwide, most notably in the United States on NBC and in Japan on NHK. The report is chosen as part of the best-of made for the twenty years of Envoyé Spécial in 2010. The second story, aired on October 4, highlights his investigation about ethnic cleansing in Shamaly province.

At the same time, his short experimental film Saïa (Afghanistan, 2000), highlighted by Le Monde critic Jean-Michel Frodon, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA). In 2015 Florent Marcie completed the editing of Commandant Khawani, a feature film portraying a young commander on the front line of Bagram in Afghanistan in the 2000s.

After these two experiences for television, Florent Marcie decided to produce, shoot and edit his films himself. He founded his company No Man's Land. His first feature film Sous les arbres d'Ajiep (Under the trees of Ajiep) is dedicated to the famine that ravaged Sudan in 1998. The film was nominated in official selection at the Cinéma du réel International Documentary Festival at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Both producer and director of his own works, his most notable films are Itchéri Kenti, a portrait of Chechen rebels during the 1996 war in Chechnya and Tomorrow Tripoli, a documentary film shot in the heart of the Libyan revolution. His main focus is on how mankind behaves in wartime, the challenges of information in our societies and the prospects for revolutions in the post-Cold War world.

Florent Marcie made his first documentary, La tribu du tunnel (The Tunnel Tribe)  in 1995 in the disused streets of the Petite Ceinture in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The film was selected at the Documentary Film Festival of Lussas and was broadcast on French TV Canal+ and France 2, in French-speaking Switzerland on TSR and in Canada on SRC. In 1997, he produced the documentary Diary of a Sicilian Rebel (Diario di una siciliana ribelle) made by Italian filmmaker Marco Amenta. The movie was selected in the official competition of the 54th Venice Film Festival.

Florent Marcie began photography in December 1989, during the Romanian revolution. He occasionally collaborates with the written press and institutional media. He is a member of the WARM Foundation.

Florent Marcie (born 1968) is a documentary filmmaker, a war reporter and journalist.