
Isidore Bethel
Known for
Directing
Born
January 1, 1989 (age 37)
Biography
Isidore Bethel is an editor, director, and producer whom Filmmaker named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2020. His work uses filmmaking to make sense of overwhelming experiences and touches on recurrent themes of displacement, grief, therapy, aging, trauma, and sexuality. His first feature film as director, Liam, premiered at the Boston LGBT Film Festival in 2018 and received the Jury Prize in the Documentary section of the Paris LGBTQ+ Film Festival. His second film, Acts of Love, co-directed with French actor Francis Leplay, premiered at Hot Docs in 2021. The films he has edited and produced have screened at Cannes (Official and ACID sections), IDFA, Visions du Réel, Ciném...
Best known work
Filmography
TBA
Rehearsal for an EncounterEditor, Co-Producer
2026
What Comes from Sitting in Silence?Editor, Co-Producer
2025
Wi Cyah StayEditor, Producer
2024
The Taste of MangoEditor
2024
Home CourtConsulting Editor
2023
unseenConsulting Editor
2023
HummingbirdsEditor, Co-Producer
2022
Hollow TreeEditor
2022
What We Leave BehindEditor, Writer, Co-Producer
2022
Blue RoomEditor, Producer
2021
Maintenant et iciConsulting Editor
2021
Some Kind of IntimacyEditor, Producer, Writer
2021
Acts of LoveDirector, Producer, Writer
2020
So Late So SoonEditor, Associate Producer
2018
Horse WranglerConsulting Producer, Editor
2018
LiamProducer, Writer, Director
2016
The Ballad of Oppenheimer ParkEditor, Producer
2014
Of Men and WarEditor, Producer
2013
Grandir (O Happy Days!)Editor









