1. Dominique Cabrera was born on 21 December 1957 and is a French film director.
13 Facts About Dominique Cabrera
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Dominique Cabrera has taught filmmaking at La Femis and at Harvard University.
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Dominique Cabrera was born in 1957 in Relizane, Algeria and moved to France as a child in 1962.
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Between 1982 and 1993, Cabrera directed five short films, documentaries, and works of fiction.
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Dominique Cabrera's support led to the production of her first feature film, L'autre cote de la mer, six years later.
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Dominique Cabrera made her second feature film, Nadia et les hippopotames, in 1999.
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Against this backdrop Dominique Cabrera evokes a fairy tale about the refuge the natural world offers to the escapees of an asylum.
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The film features Jean-Pierre Leaud and is based on a story Dominique Cabrera heard when she worked in a psychiatric hospital in the 1970s.
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Dominique Cabrera produced the film for the television station, France 2.
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Dominique Cabrera suggests that these actors' inclusion in her work subliminally recalls roles they played in previous films.
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Dominique Cabrera has consistently worked with the same crew since the 1980s, including her director of photography, Helene Louvart.
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Dominique Cabrera has acted in three films: Un petit cas de conscience by Marie Claude Treilhou, Douches froides by Antony Cordier, and Belleville-Tokyo by Elise Girard.
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Dominique Cabrera's films have received significant critical acclaim, a Cesar nomination, and two nominations at the Cannes Film Festival.