Olivier Boonjing

Movies

The Lost Boys
Director of Photography
In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of another kind. Behind fences and cell walls, passions begin to play havoc with the need for liberty.
Everybody Loves Jeanne
Director of Photography
Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate.
Zero Fucks Given
Cinematography
Cassandre, 26, is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she’s always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home.
Sans soleil
Director of Photography
A few years from now, the sun is on the verge of exploding and spatial shock waves flow the Earth. Most humans suffer auditory pain and Cyril's mother becomes a prominent drug dealer for those who decided not to take shelter underground. When she suddenly disappears, Cyril is adopted but he soon feels the need to embark on a journey to find her back.
Lola and the Sea
Director of Photography
Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting...
Among the Almond Trees
Cinematography
Maysan and Iyad, a Syrian couple, work at a Breton fish auction and with their daughter seem to constitute a happy family. They have just been informed their residence permits have been approved. But then Iyad asks a question his wife wishes she hadn't heard. Great acting in this dissection of a marriage.
Lost Rabbit
Director of Photography
Since the death of his wife, Jef has been in depression. For a weekend, his goddaughter entrusted him with Jacques, his little rabbit. When Jacques made the chest, who would have thought that Jef's life would become even more complicated?
Matriochkas
Director of Photography
Anna is 16, and lives with her young mother, Rebecca. It is the end of another summer defined by her mom’s flings and conquests, but during which Anna begins to discover her own sensuality. As Anna learns she is pregnant, her mother sees herself in her daughter, at the same age, facing the same choices. And if Anna’s decision implies a rupture in her relationship with Rebecca, she will find support where she least expects it.
The Summer Movie
Director of Photography
Filmed in only five days during a hot summer in Marseilles, Emmanuel Marre’s Prix Jean Vigo winning The Summer Movie chronicles the unlikely friendship between an aimless thirty-seven-year-old and his friend’s nine (and-a-half) year-old kid. After Philippe, a middle-aged filmmaker, abruptly quits a job he loved, the trio find themselves on a roadtrip to nowhere.
Even Lovers Get the Blues
Director of Photography
After the sudden death of one of them a group of friends grieves trough sexual encounters.
Parasol
Director of Photography
Holiday time, a Mediterranean island. Three wanderings at summer's end. The determination, no matter the cost, to make things change. Nostalgia for a past that never existed.
Parasol
Editor
Holiday time, a Mediterranean island. Three wanderings at summer's end. The determination, no matter the cost, to make things change. Nostalgia for a past that never existed.
The Sleep of the Amazons
Director of Photography
Camille, 18, flees her past and meets Lena, who takes her under her wing. At her house, they are already four, and form a tribe, a family so close that everything is shared. The rest of the world is their playground, and often their enemy. A story of young girls trying to rebuild their lives.
For Thousands of Miles
Cinematography
Part of him had been expecting something profound to be waiting at the ocean, but, in many ways, it never came. Straddling the line between documentary and fiction, FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES is a unique road movie covering one man’s bike journey across America in search of something meaningful. First-time director Mike Ambs delivers a visually stunning reflection on coming-of-age while exploring the vast promise of the American landscape.
Somewhere Between Here and Now
Director
After three years of travel through South-East Asia, a young woman, Louise comes back home. Brussels, Belgium. Adrian is just about to leave everything behind. She thought her journey was over, he believed his hasn't begun yet.