Thomas Jenkoe lives and works in Lille. He makes reality the raw material of his work, exploring the cracks in our world that fracture us from within, and the insoluble conflict between being and existence. At the border of worlds — mental, geographical, political — he tracks the presence of evil at work in our modern societies.
His medium-length documentary Memories from Gehenna (Cinéma du Réel 2015 – French Competition Award, IFFR Rotterdam, DocFortnight MoMA New York) offers a psychogeographic drift in the north of France, following in the footsteps of a xenophobic killer.
He co-directed with Diane Sara Bouzgarrou the feature-length documentary The Last Hillbilly which had its World Premiere at ACID Cannes 2020. The film achieved great success at French & international festivals, where it won several awards (IDFA special mention, Best Documentary Award at the Torino Film Festival, Grand Prize of the French Feature Films Competition at the FIFIB). The film was released in cinemas in June 2021.
Diane and Thomas are currently working on their second feature-length documentary together, a project supported by the Villa Albertine which they were awarded in 2023.
