About
Cinematographer. Filmmaker. Narrator.
Born in Finistère, I graduated from Sciences Po Toulouse and hold a degree in History and Modern Literature with a specialization in film from the University of Toulouse Le Mirail. I then went to Mexico where I worked in the communications department of the United Nations in Mexico City and later in the audiovisual department of the French Embassy. Upon returning to Paris, I obtained a Master's degree in Cooperation and Development from the Institute for Advanced Studies on Latin America and a Master's degree in International Artistic Cooperation from Paris VIII University. Following this, I spent time in Ecuador where I worked as a research consultant on the creation of a traveling film festival in remote areas of the country.
It was during my training at the Varan Workshops that I made my first film Les Secrets which won multiple awards in 2008 (Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2008 – États généraux du documentaire de Lussas 2008 – Best First Film Award at the Vannes European Film Festival 2008 – Audiovisual Training Award at Traces de Vie 2017 – Jury Prize at the Caméras es Champs Festival 2008 – Bronze Key at the Lorquin International Film-Video-Psychology Festival 2008 – Jury Prize at the Saint-Ouen Family Film Festival 2007…).
Next comes "In the shadow of dubbing, authors", a documentary presented at the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers.
I also produce numerous videos for live performance productions (for La Villette, the Avignon Festival, the Printemps de Bourges, etc.).
Finally, in 2023, "Eldorado", a feature-length documentary, was also selected by numerous festivals (CorsicaDoc, Rencontres documentaires de Mellionnec, Escales documentaires de la Rochelle, Festival Intergalactique de l'Image Alternative) and by the CNC with the "Image en Bibliothèques" label.
Awards and distinctions
CNC
Image in Libraries
Corsicadoc
Selection
National
Mellionnec Documentary Film Encounters
Documentary Stopovers
National selection
Festival
Intergalactic
Alternative Image
ELDORADO
Documentary | 1h 2m | 2023
Far from Kergoat, the farm where his family drifted into debt and
Despite his alcoholism, Tony built himself an Eldorado with his Mexican wife.
and their daughters. But Kergoat, invariably, reminds him of his presence.
Angers Premiers Plans Festival
Out of competition
IN THE SHADOW OF DUBBING
Documentary | 26m | 2016
Dubbing and subtitling writers. Their daily work, their role in society, their wordplay, their quirks, their tricks…
A beautiful tribute to this behind-the-scenes profession and to these authors, bearers of stories…
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
National selection
Lussas Documentary General Assembly: Uncertain Perspectives
Vannes European Film Festival
Jury Prize
Traces of Life
Audiovisual Training Awards
Festival
Family Film
Jury Prize
THE SECRETS
Documentary | 26m | 2008
In his debut film, Tony Quéméré attempts to exorcise the curse that plagued his family during his childhood. Addressing his soon-to-be-born daughter, he recounts his parents' lives, a life whose harshness they drowned in alcohol, an anesthetic that gradually transformed into poison, poisoning the atmosphere within the family: the father, the mother, and their two sons. At 17, Tony ran away, and now he returns ten years later with this narrative, revisiting the various stages that led to their downfall, as if he wanted to make his film the tomb of this family secret. Alcoholism is a shame best left unspoken. With *Les Secrets* (The Secrets), Tony Quéméré makes the opposite choice: to give form to this debacle in order to put an end to it and restore dignity to those who were lost within it.
Entretien avec André Rigaut sur le film ELDORADO de Tony Quéméré
Two documentaries, two extraordinary confessions, were the revelations of the 30th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival [...]
Another, less serene, confession is made by the Frenchman Tony Quéméré in *Les Secrets*. It is to his unborn daughter that he speaks. Using photos and short amateur films, he introduces her, with a humor that one initially, and wrongly, believes to be unintentional, to all the oddballs in his Breton family. Ravaged by failure, poverty, and, above all, alcohol... It's reminiscent of Zola, yes, but transfigured by tenderness. For Tony Quéméré loves them, all these hysterical drunks. To the point of transforming them into poets. Into lyrical clowns. Into "ugly, dirty, and wicked" characters in the Italian style, opposing life's blows with an ever-greater love.
(Pierre Murat)
Touching family stories in Lussas
Documentaries. The 20th edition of the Ardèche festival reflects a growing production of films that remain under-distributed. Creative documentary is experiencing a strange paradox: the production of original works continues to increase while their distribution channels, especially on television, are shrinking (...) The Incertains Regards program also offers a harvest of films as endearing as family ties. There are the first films, fragile as paper boats. Such is the case with Tony Quéméré's letter to his daughter, Les Secrets (The Secrets), in which he reveals his parents' alcoholism. The film manages the feat of making us laugh about a serious subject. "This film is a declaration of love for my parents, raw love, tough and unconditional love." (Laure Nouhakat)
The secrets, by Tony Quéméré. A favorite.
A film that cannot fail to move the viewer: The Secrets of Tony Quéméré from Finistère. The young man recounts his family history, marked by alcoholism and the isolation of rural life. A touching documentary, undeniably awkward: it's restrained in its tone, yet uncompromising in its portrayal of the truth. Ultimately, and despite everything, it resonates as a necessary cry of love.
The 2008 selection is marked by several films that examine distress - even the
The devastation wrought for decades now by the upheavals in rural Brittany is evident, particularly among today's youth. In *Les Secrets * (The Secrets), Tony Quéméré, a father-to-be, offers his daughter an extremely poignant, raw, and disillusioned, yet also poetic and humorous, account of the family she will come from. Bankruptcy of the family farm, distress, alcoholism, and brutal relationships: this film depicts the gradual isolation of a family that, more or less consciously, drifts aimlessly in the countryside near Pluguffan, close to Quimper, because it no longer feels it belongs in the world around it.