Isidore Bethel

Isidore Bethel is an editor, director, and producer whom Filmmaker named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2020. The films he has edited, written, and produced have screened at Cannes, SXSW, the Berlinale, and Sundance London as well as on Netflix, Criterion, POV, and Op-Docs, receiving over 30 awards, Mexican Academy, European Film Academy, and Gotham Award nominations, and IndieWire and New York Times Critic's Picks. His work uses filmmaking to make sense of overwhelming experiences and touches on recurrent themes of displacement, sexuality, aging, trauma, grief, therapy, and art-making; critics have characterized his editing as demonstrative of "admirable restraint," "astute," "tender," and "elegant." He has directed two features, Liam (Paris LGBTQ+ FF Jury Prize) and Acts of Love (Hot Docs). A graduate of Harvard, the École Normale Supérieure, and SAIC, he has taught at La Fémis, Sarah Lawrence College, and Parsons Paris.