Christophe Ruggia (born 7 January 1965) is a French film director and screenwriter.
22-738: Christophe Ruggia is a graduate of the Free Conservatory of French Cinema ( Conservatoire libre du cinéma français ), and laureate of the Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet in 1993. In 1991, he conceived and produced a short film as part of a campaign against HIV/AIDS in the West Indies entitled, Sovè l'anmou . After L'Enfance Égarée (1993), a short film released in theaters in the program Four Urban Legends , he directed his first feature, Le Gone du Chaâba [ fr ] (1997), that
44-499: A "counter-investigation" in Marianne , Ruggia claimed that the rupture between him and Achache took place after he found her with another man on a set and that it was he who left the apartment where they lived together. He adds to having confided to his partner, at the beginning of their relationship, his "fascination" for Haenel, but, according to him, "the rest is only pure invention". According to this "counter-investigation", Achache
66-509: A Prize for Vocation. Mona Achache Mona Achache (born 18 March 1981) is a French-Moroccan film director, screenwriter, and actress. She wrote and directed the feature films The Hedgehog (2009), Les Gazelles (2014), Valiant Hearts (2021), and Little Girl Blue (2023). She also directed the Netflix documentary The Women and the Murderer (2021). In 2024, she
88-691: A chosen profession. The Foundation has over 1,200 winners, chosen over the years by a jury exceptionally, composed of major teachers, great scientists including Nobel medicine, professors at the Collège de France , professors in the Faculty of Medicine and members of the French Academy and the institute. The first phase of selection consists of specialised juries according to different fields of specialisation (18 fields, in total). Out of approximately 5,000 candidates each year, 20 scholars are awarded
110-534: A literary and theatrical education. Achache worked as an assistant director for Michel Boujenah in his 2003 film Father and Sons , and later began screenwriting for fictional and documentary films. She became a mother at the age of 20 and directed a documentary film about childbirth , Alma et les autres , released in 2004, which became a reference in more than 500 maternity wards in France during birth preparation sessions. In 2005, she wrote and directed
132-549: A minor under 15 years by a person in authority", and has been entrusted to the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police . Following this, Haenel filed a complaint against Ruggia, who was indicted on 16 January 2020 for "sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor by a person having authority over the victim". Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet The Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet pour la vocation
154-577: A precise instance of physical contact with Haenel, in which Ruggia "got his hand on the belly of Adèle and then ran it up to her chest, under a T-shirt", while they were watching a film together and Adèle was lying with her head on his knees. According to the claim, Ruggia, seeing fear in Haenel's eyes, and getting scared himself, then withdrew his hand. Achache stated that she remained silent because it "seemed unfair to her to speak for Adèle Haenel", and that afterwards she left Ruggia. In an interview presented as
176-989: A trial described as " Stalinist " by Amnesty International . When the Ukrainian filmmaker did not eat for three months, Ruggia launched in September 2018 with a collective of filmmakers a rotating hunger strike that he organized in front of the Russian embassy in Paris. In the 2010s, he signed numerous forums and petitions, defending in particular undocumented workers, high school students engaged against police violence, Cédric Herrou —known for his help to migrants—and human rights in Syria . On 3 November 2019, an article appeared in Mediapart in which actress Adèle Haenel accused Ruggia of "touching" and "sexual harassment", when she
198-595: Is a foundation in France that was founded in 1960, as La Fondation de la Vocation, by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (then president of Publicis ). He had the idea to create the Foundation for Vocation, and could not doubt that it would become a veritable institution. The Foundation is a private organization recognized public utility, intended to encourage all vocations, helping young people who (for lack of material support) are hampered in their efforts to be accomplished in
220-466: Is still friends with Laetitia Cangioni. Cangioni had to quit the filming of Les Diables in 2001 due to "burnout" and she is presented by Marianne as being one of the four people who, during the investigation by Médiapart, claimed "to have felt something abnormal" in the relationship between Ruggia and Haenel during the shooting. A preliminary investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office for counts of sexual harassment and sexual assault "on
242-535: The Holocaust . That same year, she also directed the Netflix documentary The Women and the Murderer , about French serial killer Guy Georges . In 2023, Achache wrote, directed, and played herself in the French docudrama Little Girl Blue . The film tells the story of her mother, Carole Achache , who was portrayed by Marion Cotillard . The film made its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in
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#1732773408644264-604: The Special Screenings section and was nominated for the L'Œil d'or award, and for the César Award for Best Documentary Film . In the early 2000s, Achache was in a relationship with director Christophe Ruggia . She later revealed that their relationship ended after he confessed to her that he had fallen in love with and inappropriately touched actress Adèle Haenel , who was at that time underage. This confession corroborated Haenel's account of sexual abuse at
286-424: The hold on the actress he has directed and with which he dreamed of shooting again", and asking her for forgiveness, saying that his "adulation" for Haenel could have been "painful at times" for her, declaring: "At the time, I had not seen that my adulation and the hopes that I placed in her might have appeared to her, given her young age, as painful at times. If so, and if she can, I ask her to forgive me"; however, at
308-450: The period 2014–2015. According to Libération in 2003, "he played a preponderant role in the coordination of the struggle" of recurring status entertainment workers. In 2005, shortly before the conviction of director Jean-Claude Brisseau for sexual harassment , he was one of the signatories of a petition in support of the latter launched by Les Inrockuptibles . This petition denounces "the way in which certain media have reported on
330-408: The same time he denounced a " media pillory " against him. The Société des réalisateurs de films (SRF) launched a delisting procedure against him. Director Mona Achache , Ruggia's former romantic partner, testified for the investigation of Mediapart : "He had confided to me to have feelings of being in love for Adèle during the promotional tour of Les Diables ." Achache claims that he told her about
352-495: The screenplay of the comedy film Les gamins , directed by Anthony Marciano. In 2014, Achache wrote and directed her second feature film, the comedy Les Gazelles . In 2021, she wrote and directed her third feature film, the World War II drama Valiant Hearts , starring Camille Cottin , based on the real-life story of her grandmother, Suzanne Achache–Wiznitzer, who was a Jewish child placed in foster care to escape
374-553: The short film Suzanne , based on the story of her grandmother, who witnessed her father being arrested by the nazis when she was 13 years old. In 2009, Achache wrote and directed her first feature film, The Hedgehog , based on the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery . That same year, she had a small part in the French-Greek drama film Eden Is West , directed by Costa-Gavras . In 2013, she co-wrote
396-566: The trial against him". In 2015, he launched with other filmmakers "The Call of Calais", which denounces a disengagement of the French government from the problem of the Calais Jungle , where thousands of migrants lived in miserable conditions. He is the initiator of a support movement in France for the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov , an opponent of the annexation of Crimea , who was sentenced by Russia in 2015 to twenty years in prison for "acts of terrorism" and "arms trafficking" during
418-427: Was between twelve and fifteen years old. Ruggia refuted the accusations through his lawyers and in a right of reply published on Mediapart on 6 November 2019, writing: "I never had towards her, I repeat, the physical gestures and the behavior of sexual harassment of which she accuses me, but I made the mistake of playing Pygmalion with the misunderstandings and the obstacles that such a posture gives rise to, such as
440-499: Was born Jewish and later converted to Catholicism . Her maternal great-grandfather, Robert Lange, was a French journalist and politician. Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo was her maternal step-grandfather. Her paternal grandmother, Suzanne Achache–Wiznitzer, was an Austrian-Jewish psychoanalyst who survived the Holocaust as a child while hidden in the Château de Chambord in France during World War II . Achache received
462-569: Was nominated at the César Awards . He directed two other feature films, Les Diables (2002) and Dans la tormente [ fr ] (2011). Ruggia became known for his numerous activist commitments, and, according to Libération , he was several times co-president or vice-president between 2003 and June 2019 of the Société des réalisateurs de films [ fr ] (SRF, "Society of Film Directors"), as well as co-chair for
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#1732773408644484-487: Was nominated for the César Award for Best Documentary Film for Little Girl Blue . Achache was born in Paris , France on 18 March 1981. Her mother was French writer and photographer Carole Achache , and her father is French director and screenwriter Jean Achache . She has a brother. Her maternal grandparents were French writer Monique Lange, and French science historian Jean-Jacques Salomon. Her maternal grandmother
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