SEBASTIEN DUATTIS
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Sebastien Duattis is a professionnel filmmaker, writer and a doctor of sociology. His films are dramas of dark comedies. He tells the inner complexities of coexistence and daily life. How do we manage to live together in a broken world ? Sebastien places actors at the very core of his storytelling process. His goal is to film the faces and the eyes of confined characters confronted to moral conflicts and their inability to express themselves.
He directed in 2023 his first professionnal short film, « Any Old Sunday », that was selected in 44 festivals around the world and screened during the 76th Cannes film festival. In 2025, he directed his second short film "Escaping the daily grind" and is currently working on his first feature script.
BIOGRAPHY
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Sebastien Duattis is a professionnel filmmaker, writer and a doctor of sociology. He writes stories depicting characters who have to face social and philosophical conflicts. He makes and edits deep, contrasted images from a musical point of view, inspired by Orson Welles famous words: "Movies depend so much on rythm. They are so close to music".
Sebastien is also musician and directs music video and live sessions along with many French artists.
In 2025, he directed his second short film "Escaping the daily grind" and is currently working on his first feature script.