Lucie Leszez

2026

Maybe all begin with the eschatological prophecy of a clown duo.
Set against the brutal architecture of a dystopian universe, a silhouette subjected to metamorphoses confronts the lines. A voice suggests madness. Language goes off the rails.
La Citadelle des Clownes is a portrait of a comedian, a film journal, a metaphorical quest, the epileptic crossing of an ambushed bridge.
How to get out of the citadel?

Lucie Leszez
France
2026
21 min
World Premiere

CAMERA
CAST
Sound Composition
Editing
complicity
Clownes
appearance



Color Grading
Sound Mixing

Lucie Leszez
Claire Faugouin-Vié
Natacha Muslera
Lucie Leszez,
Alix Tulipe
Stefano Canapa
Claire Faugouin-Vié, Mathilde
Courcol-Rozès
Léa Bridarolli,
Sophia El Mokhtar,
Thalia Pigier, Victor De Coninck, Ariane
Zarmanti,
Christine Coste,
Violaine Joffart,
Renyan Liu,
Léo Sarrade,
Clotilde Salmon,
Saada Faïza
Clovis Stocchetti
Jean-Michel Béranger

Lucie Leszez
Claire Faugouin-Vié
Natacha Muslera
Lucie Leszez, Alix Tulipe
Stefano Canapa
Claire Faugouin-Vié, Mathilde Courcol-Rozès
Léa Bridarolli, Sophia El Mokhtar, Thalia Pigier, Victor De Coninck, Ariane Zarmanti, Christine Coste, Violaine Joffart, Renyan Liu, Léo Sarrade, Clotilde Salmon, Saada Faïza
Clovis Stocchetti
Jean-Michel Béranger

Bosco (2023)
Borgo (2019)

Lucie Leszez is a filmmaker based in Paris, where she has been making 16mm films since 2018. She is a member of the independent film laboratory L'Abominable. She is graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She conducted doctoral research in film studies between 2018 and 2023, exploring the relationship between the technical practices of analogue filmmaking and the visual forms of memory.Her films often draw on the material of everyday life and explore themes related to the limits of language and memory through photochemical, formal, and rhythmic experimentation.She has collaborated with actress Claire Faugouin and musician Natacha Muslera on her latest film The Citadel of Clownesses (2026), with filmmakers Joyce Lainé on the four-projector performance Sweet Seventeen (2023), and Stefano Canapa on Bosco (2023). She is a member of the editorial board of La Revue Documentaire, where she writes.