Thomas Favel

Movies

Return to Seoul
Director of Photography
On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born, before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
Our Quiet Place
Cinematography
Elitza Gueorguieva films the making of the novel that her Belarusian alter-ego Aliona begins about her father, a maritime adventurer, physicist and dreamer, who disappeared off the Turkish coast in 1995.
La Lévitation de la princesse Karnak
Director of Photography
An unknown, shapeless disaster happens. Paris must be evacuated. Two friends, Camille and Paul, set out to find shelter in a remote village in Italy, where Paul's brother lives.
My Heart Invents Memories
Cinematography
Across an oneiric journey, a woman remembers or invents her own memories with a man, object of her fantasies.
The Return of Tragedy
Cinematography
Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored.
NA China
Director of Photography
The implantation of African traders in Guangzhou is a recent phenomenon, on which Marie Voignier reports through her interlinking portraits of Jackie, Julie, Shanny who have come to set up their business on site. Amidst the monstrous accumulation of merchandise on the endless markets of the megacity, the film follows these African businesswomen grappling with the globalised Chinese economy.
Smoky Mountain
Director of Photography
Phom Penh, Cambodia, nowadays. Sony, a 10-year-old Cambodian kid working at a discharge, is thrown out of home by his father. Left on his own, he is fostered by an association that is allowing him to go to school and to discover a new way of living. Sony will quickly settle, but on the day of a school outing, he makes an unexpected discovery.
Common Birds
Director of Photography
Refusing to pay for the debt, two Athenians decide to leave their city. Guided by mysterious crow calls, they wander through a desolate urban landscape until they reach a zone of passage and are spirited to an ancient forest, the Realm of the Birds. Here they meet the Hoopoe, half-bird half-woman, who tells them how the birds live by sharing their resources amid the magical forces of the forest. However, one of the men has other plans for the birds. Though far from easy, the inter-species encounter will be illuminating for all.
All About Yves
Director of Photography
Jerem decides to settle at his grandma’s place to compose his first album. There he meets So, a mysterious investigator working on behalf of the startup Digital Cool. She will persuade Jerem to try out Yves, a new kind of smart refrigerator gifted with an IA.
The Prince Of Sihanoukville
Cinematography
Wandering in the streets of Sihanoukville, at night.
The Way We Love
Director of Photography
One summer afternoon, a little theater of desire and domination, tender and sometimes cruel, is established between the young waiters and clients in a Provence bar.
Sleeping Beauty
Director of Photography
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleeping Beauty in the kingdom of Kentz and breaking the spell over her. But his father, the king, doesn’t believe in fairy tales, and is completely opposed to Égon’s dream. It’s Maggie Jerkins, an archeologist from Unesco, who will provide Egon with the opportunity to follow his heart.
Diamond Island
Director of Photography
Bora, an 18-year-old, leaves his village to work on the construction sites of Diamond Island, a project for an ultra-modern paradise for the rich and a symbol of tomorrow’s Cambodia. He befriends his fellow workers and finds his elder brother, the charismatic Solei, who went missing five years earlier. Solei introduces him into an exciting world, that of an urban and wealthy youth, its girls, nights and illusions.
A City Under A City
Cinematography
By tunneling, workers discovered a network of cavities extending under the city. While investigating this phenomenon, a journalist get lost in this mysterious maze...
France Is a Gas
Director of Photography
In 2020, the greatest minds in France gather at the President’s home in order to save the country from catastrophe.
Stony Paths
Cinematography
Stony Paths is the story of a walk across Anatolia. Arnaud Khayadjanian starts a trek in Turkey, on the land of his forefathers who survived the Armenian Genocide. Starting from a painting, from encounters and from accounts by his relatives, he goes on exploring the little known issue of the Righteous, all these anonymous people who saved lives in 1915.
If the Photo Is Good
Cinematography
In a small town of France, Martin shares his everyday life between his family and the local brass band. At the fanfare, Francis disturbs his well-ordered life. To stop the impulses, Martin will try to go to the end of his fantasies.
Cambodia 2099
Cinematography
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On Diamond Island, the country's pinnacle of modernity, two friends tell each other about the dreams they had the night before.
The Girl and the River
Director of Photography
Nouk and Samuel love each other, but they are young and possessive and awkward. One day, Nouk abruptly loses Samuel, who finds himself in limbo.
Their New House Is Covered With Cork
Cinematography
An old woman walks through Hemakcheat, a legendary theatre in 60's-70's Phnom Penh, which is now a gigantic squat where many families are living.
The Sadness of Androids
Cinematography
In the darkness of their respective rooms, two girls, in love with one another, converse on the Internet. But something is broken.
Et ils gravirent la montagne
Cinematography
Fanny and Simon, two young people of hardly twenty years, flee an industrial park and sink into the mountain. An unfortunate incident, arisen on their workplace, binds them in a common adventure. Along the way, they seduce and learn to know each other. The discovery, in the middle of nowhere, of a mysterious object, is going to tip over their fate.
The Idiot
Director of Photography
Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.