Joana Preiss

Joana Preiss

Born: May 22, 1972
in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Joana Preiss (born 22 May 1972) is a French actress, director, singer, and performer.

Joana Preiss has starred in the films of Christophe Honoré, Olivier Assayas, Nobuhiro Suwa and Pia Marais, and has also collaborated with Nan Goldin in her works. She has also worked with Ugo Rondinone, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. She has performed on stage in the shows of Pascal Rambert and Eleanor Weber.

She was trained in classical singing and contemporary music, and regularly performs in concerts. She founded the duo White Tahina with Vincent Epplay, Hiroyuki, and Frédéric Danos, in which she sings poems by Hölderlin.

In 2011 she directed her first film Sibérie.

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Title: Klash ! L’art en acte
Character: Voix off
Released: October 10, 2022
Type: TV
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Which Is Witch ?
Title: Which Is Witch ?
Released: June 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Louis II de Barrière has been petrified in the ice since the dawn of time. We find him in a forest, luckily he is alive ! Three witch sisters try to defrost it and unravel its musical mystery. We are propelled with them in a colorful and surreal fairy tale.
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Broken Poet
Title: Broken Poet
Character: Meg
Released: May 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Broken Poet is a compelling investigation into the meaning of success, rock stardom and even freedom itself which, as Janis Joplin sang, is just another word for nothing left to lose.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Released: November 27, 2019
Type: Movie
The film is a rendition of Resurrection, Tolstoy’s last novel. It begins with a reading of the beginning of the first part in Naples, in September 2012. It moves on to Berlin, Locarno 2013, Oneglia, Paris, Casalborgone, and it ends in Milan with the beginning of the second part. The places and times change, and so do the people doing the reading. But also, in the middle, real people and voices surface, like Adamo Vergine at his home and Jean François Neplaz in Marseilles. The film searches for the possible faces of Tolstoy’s two protagonists in Oneglia, Procida, and Casalborgone.
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Felix in Wonderland
Title: Felix in Wonderland
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head.
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The Wake
Title: The Wake
Character: Joana
Released: December 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Over there, in his village at the foot of the mountains, he’s dead. His face radiant and his body at peace, he lies on the bed. Then they can gather around him. Three days long they talk, drink, weep, fight and remember… And they smile, too.
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Alien Crystal Palace
Title: Alien Crystal Palace
Released: November 21, 2018
Type: Movie
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.
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The Full House
Title: The Full House
Character: Nathalie
Released: March 21, 2018
Type: Movie
Antoine, a bachelor party-goer, gets new roommates: Jeanne and her two children.
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Raw
Title: Raw
Character: Mother
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: Movie
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
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Trilogy of Our Lives Undone
Title: Trilogy of Our Lives Undone
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Our feelings, our choices, even our death wander on the web like options, like ghosts. For the time of a last train journey, for the time of a love chat, a deadly chat, or an unlikely casting, three generations will try to definitively wrest from virtual nomadism, to put an end to self-exile that undo our lives... Between Rotterdam and Tourcoing, diving in the Flatlands, tenuous and fragile...
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The Man After
Title: The Man After
Character: Suzanne
Released: February 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A couple faces the difficulties of creating a life together and find happiness. Should Suzanne run away from her man to be at peace? Would a new lover help her find herself?
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Rouge
Title: Rouge
Character: Barbara
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
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Portrait of the Artist
Title: Portrait of the Artist
Character: Barbara
Released: March 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters. But what he doesn't show to anyone, not even his wife, is the mark on his back that keeps getting bigger. This red mark worries him, upsets him, and seems to want to tell him something...
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La storia di Cino
Title: La storia di Cino
Character: La Bergère
Released: December 17, 2014
Type: Movie
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Jour et nuit, delle donne e degli uomini perduti
Title: Jour et nuit, delle donne e degli uomini perduti
Released: November 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them.
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Silent Asylum
Title: Silent Asylum
Released: June 29, 2014
Type: Movie
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Passer l'hiver
Title: Passer l'hiver
Character: Anita
Released: January 15, 2014
Type: Movie
A gas station. Two women. Winter. Trips. Daily life. And then a risk. The hotel in Normandy. A step aside. The investigation. The red Lada. The beach. The death that works the living. A movement and a suspension. The brown girl. The love. A story of links that are woven.
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Hotel de l'Univers
Title: Hotel de l'Univers
Released: November 25, 2013
Type: Movie
“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through different times and places, like the stations of a personal via crucis, with occasional leaps into the present. From Paris to Rome and on to São Paulo. The body has lost every value, except the economic one.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Title: Mary, Queen of Scots
Character: Marie de Guise
Released: August 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The life and death of the Scottish monarch.
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The French Trilogy
Title: The French Trilogy
Character: Self
Released: June 8, 2013
Type: Movie
The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.
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Bad Girl
Title: Bad Girl
Character: Brigitte
Released: November 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
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Home Sweet Home
Title: Home Sweet Home
Released: November 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him some money, while a patron manages from rue de Mhyra a network of Italian call girls. Adiba sings an ancient Moroccan song in a room full of children, while Vidya is performing her daily puja in Pune (India). Giuli sings to herself as she drives at night through Turin and runs to the station at day. Parallel stories where every character is caught “in a situation,” closed.
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Hip Moves
Title: Hip Moves
Character: Nurse
Released: September 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair of lovers: his colleague and his wife who sells her body with her husband's blessing.
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Sibérie
Title: Sibérie
Character: Herself
Released: June 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Filmed entirely by Preiss and her then lover, Dumont, mostly in the claustrophobia of a train car on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Siberia is an intense and raw observation of a relationship’s denouement. With unflinching honesty and a Direct Cinema approach, Preiss’s documentary is a fascinating psychological exploration of love, dependency, and the bounds of romantic privacy.
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The White Line
Title: The White Line
Character: Anna
Released: August 31, 2010
Type: Movie
Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and women. Sylvain in full adolescence, feels the need to get closer to his father. On a whim, both of them leave to join an old friend of Jean, Bob the American, who lives on an isolated ranch. From then on, they will try to apprehend each other, with clumsiness, hesitation and sometimes even violence.
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Accomplices
Title: Accomplices
Character: Esther, la mère de Rebecca
Released: December 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Two police detectives investigate the murder of a high-end male prostitute, and his relationship with his girlfriend.
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LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
Title: LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
Character: La mère de Stéphane
Released: February 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
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Boarding Gate
Title: Boarding Gate
Character: Lisa
Released: August 22, 2007
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.
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The Unpolished
Title: The Unpolished
Character: Louise
Released: February 8, 2007
Type: Movie
Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.
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In Paris
Title: In Paris
Character: Anna
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his mother seems to be the only thing that brings him joy. When Paul is then left in the house to brood and talk to one of his brother's girlfriends, he begins to realize that while things haven't gone according to plan, one can always find something to live for.
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Joana (Quartier des Enfants Rouges)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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Quartier des Enfants-Rouges
Title: Quartier des Enfants-Rouges
Character: Joana/Maryse
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
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Noise
Title: Noise
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
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A Perfect Couple
Title: A Perfect Couple
Character: Natacha
Released: September 14, 2005
Type: Movie
A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having dinner with that they are going to split.
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Clean
Title: Clean
Character: Aline
Released: September 1, 2004
Type: Movie
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
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Ma mère
Title: Ma mère
Character: Réa
Released: May 19, 2004
Type: Movie
After his father's death, a young man is introduced to a world of hedonism and depravity by his amoral mother.
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La nuit sera longue
Title: La nuit sera longue
Character: L'amie du père
Released: November 24, 2003
Type: Movie
It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of the parents, meets and looks at his father, all day long.
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The War in Paris
Title: The War in Paris
Released: May 22, 2002
Type: Movie
In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.
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Close to Leo
Title: Close to Leo
Character: Yvan's Mother
Released: May 18, 2002
Type: Movie
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV positive, his family quickly rallies around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.
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Roundelay
Title: Roundelay
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Late August, Early September
Title: Late August, Early September
Character: Standardiste
Released: February 10, 1999
Type: Movie
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.