LES FILMS DU HORLA LTD

Created in Februrary 1987 by Patrick Cazals, LES FILMS DU HORLA became a limited liability company with a fixed capital of 11 433,68 euros in the summer of 1994.

Its initial operating date is July 1st 1994.
Its registration at the RCS in the Lot département (B 397 636 069) dates from July 11th 1994.
Its registered office is at Hôpital Saint-Jean 46600 SARRAZAC

Its Paris office is at 15 rue Laugier 95100 ARGENTEUIL
Its manager is Claudine Arnould-Cazals.

LES FILMS DU HORLA Ltd has held a CNC card (#10491) as a specialized producer (short films) since July 19th 1994 and another (#1798) as a DVD publisher since February 2005.

It produces its films in France as well as abroad, particularly in India, Africa, the USA, the Carribean Islands and the Caucasus.

Creators such as Niko Pirosmani, Robert Doisneau, Ossip Zadkine, Michel de Montaigne, Marcelle Delpastre, Sergueï Paradjanov, Rouben Mamoulian, Amrita Sher-Gil, Arthur Rimbaud, René Depestre, Aimé Césaire…
Literary trends (the Troubadours, Argot, Malian and Indian writers, children’s literature…), visual artists (Jean Lurçat, Thomas Gleb, Jean Cortot, sculptors from Benin, Raza, Akbar Padamsee…), Armenian, French and Georgian motion pictures have been subjects for films already produced or in the making.
Nearly forty films are now listed in the distribution catalogue of the Company (see the Filmography, DVD and Projections pages).

DIRECTOR OF FILMS DU HORLA :
PATRICK CAZALS

As a film-maker and producer, Patrick Cazals has been the author of nearly fifty documentaries since 1976.

As a director and journalist, he contributed to Libération, a daily, from 1988 to 1993, to Cahiers du Cinéma from 1988 to 1992 and to Radio France-France Culture from 1990 to 2000. He has written several works among which Musidora, la dixième muse (H.Veyrier), Sergueï Paradjanov (Cahiers du Cinéma), Aventures et Légendes des Troubadours and Contes et Légendes d’Occitanie (published by Nathan).

In 1987 he created the producing house LES FILMS DU HORLA and ever since he has devoted himself to the direction of creative documentaries, experimental films, and portraits of artists and writers.
Among his latest films :

Doisneau in town, Doisneau in field (1993)
Bohumil Hrabal, the tender barbarian (1994) et Bohumil Hrabal (1995 : A century of Writers series)
Marcelle Delpastre, life on edge (1996)
Robert Giraud, the slang master (1999)
Jean Cortot, painted writing (2000)
Writers from Mali (2001)
Amrita Sher-Gil, a indian rhapsody (2002)
Sartre and de Beauvoir tribulations to Caucasus (2003)
Sergueï Paradjanov, the rebel (2004)
Rene Depestre, the diary of a phenomenal seaman (2005)
Rouben Mamoulian, Broadway and Hollywood golden age (2006)
Pere Castor’s work (2007)
Hurricane Kalatozov (2009)

Specification sheets and synopses of all these films can be found on the filmography page of this site >>