Pierre-Alain Giraud, director
“Disney’s Fantasia on steroids.”
★★★★ The Guardian
“A jaw-dropping fantasy world.”
★★★★ The Telegraph
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
Sept 9, 2026 → Jan 3, 2027
Playing with Fire now showing at the Royal Festival Hall — Southbank Centre, London: UK premiere, for the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary. Four-star reviews in The Guardian and The Telegraph
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
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 — now showing until Jan 3, 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.