Pierre-Alain Giraud, director
Playing with Fire — an immersive odyssey with Yuja Wang · written and directed by Pierre-Alain Giraud
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Pierre-Alain Giraud is a director of immersive works, documentaries, fiction and animated films. His works have been awarded and selected at numerous festivals — from Cannes and Sundance to Tribeca and the Venice Mostra. Co-founder of the production company Novaya, he co-directed Noire — Best Immersive Work at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival — then wrote and directed Playing with Fire, an immersive odyssey with pianist Yuja Wang, in competition at Cannes in 2026. He also designs films for the stage — theatre and music.
News
Currently
Currently shooting with Julia Piaton, Marthe Keller, Bénédicte Cerutti and Laurent Poitrenaux — stage films for Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, directed by Arthur Nauzyciel — premiere at TNB, Sept 29 → Oct 9, 2026
Sept 4 → 6, 2026
A Night in Montmartre selected for the Venice Gap-Financing Market of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival
Sept 9, 2026 → Jan 3, 2027
UK premiere of Playing with Fire at the Royal Festival Hall, for the 75th anniversary of the Southbank Centre, London
October 2026
Noire at the Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico
Oct 22 → 28, 2026
Noire at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City — Jardín Escénico Chapultepec, as part of the México Francia 2026 season
July 2026
Novaya named a laureate of the second wave of France 2030’s “Culture immersive et métavers” programme for FABRIC, a hybrid production studio
Latest works
Playing with Fire
An immersive mixed-reality odyssey with pianist Yuja Wang, written and directed by Pierre-Alain Giraud. Philharmonie de Paris, 2025–2026.
World premiere — Immersive Competition, 2026 Cannes Film Festival · Innovation Award, Classical:NEXT 2026 · Southbank Centre, London 2026–2027 · Lincoln Center 2027
Noire
Immersive augmented-reality installation, written by Tania de Montaigne, directed with Stéphane Foenkinos. Centre Pompidou, 2023.
Best Immersive Work, 77th Cannes Film Festival · inaugural Annwn Prize, June 2026 · Thea Award 2024 · SIMA Awards 2024 (Creative Advocacy jury prize) · Luxembourg City Film Festival 2024 · Tribeca Festival 2023 · BFI London Film Festival 2023 · Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris · Centre Phi, Montreal · Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato 2026
Victimhood — video for Björk
Animated film directed with Gabríela Friðriksdóttir for Björk’s song Victimhood, projected on stage throughout the Cornucopia tour. 2023.
Une cabine à soi
Feature film written and directed with Anne Brochet, shot among the 400 beach huts of Cayeux-sur-Mer. Angoulême Film Festival 2025 · France 3.