Bellota Films is an independent production company, founded in 2009 by Hind Saïh and Dominique Barneaud, both driven by a strong desire to create.

With 20 years of production experience in France and abroad, we place innovative writing and committed approaches at the heart of our activity. Our films are "coups de coeur", motivated by the desire to share unique and surprising insights into the contemporary world and reality. At the center of our activity, a selection of projects for television and cinema, whose writing is sometimes mixed with animation, graphic arts or multimedia. Our core business is documentary, but we also develop fiction and feature films.

We are always looking to push back the boundaries between genres, with the desire to tell the story of reality in its plurality. The desire that presides over our choices is to accompany ambitious projects, until they reach their audiences.

Our editorial line is built around arthouse films and our mission is to bring them to the most coherent audience possible in France and abroad on the most appropriate media.

Bellota Films is a human-sized company with a very light structure, allowing us to devote all our funding to the creation itself. We are totally independent and work with very different partners. Thanks to the experience of the two associated producers, the company enjoys a great credibility and a good professional recognition. Over the years, Hind and Dominique have built up an important network of institutional partners, public and private broadcasters, co-producers and distributors in France and abroad. The career of the films produced by the company and the distinctions obtained in the festival circuit have notably contributed to its visibility.

ACTIVITIES

Documentaries

We produce documentaries for French and international television channels as well as for the cinema.

Fiction & Cinema

As delegated producers, we develop films for the cinema and accompany international filmmakers as minority co-producers.

New Medias

We also develop emerging formats for new media, notably in partnership with the company Red Corner.

Commitments

Because we have at heart the respect of the environment and the equality between men and women, we adhere to the EcoProd charters and the 50/50 Collective

OUR RECENT PRODUCTIONS
  • Before our eyes, a forgotten palace reappears, a thousand-year-old civilization is discovered under a new light… More than 600 years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang reigns over all of China after defying the Mongols. Victorious, he builds a political movement, proclaims himself emperor and founds, in the same year...
  • Culture is also a front line in the resistance to Putin's war. Under the constant threat of Russian bombing, people are dancing and singing in defiance of the alarms, putting on plays in nuclear shelters, books are published despite paper shortages, street art is painted near the front line, music is recorded, exhibitions are opened in a closed museum, where endangered treasures are safeguarded, camouflage is endlessly sewn in the cellar, and behind the scenes, money is constantly being raised to provide drones and survival kits for soldiers... Faced with the enemy for whom the Ukrainians supposedly have neither identity nor culture, everyone is fighting. Children and grandmothers too. Our loved ones, our neighbors. We are Ukraine. We are Europe.
  • At Milan's Niguarda Hospital, Dr. Bini receives parents who dream of children and adolescents in search of an identity.
  • Gilliam's cinema is full of iconic titles that not only testify to a visual extravagance and an ever-renewed singularity, but his cinema also echoes a disquieting and constantly topical humanity. Terry Gilliam's work and life merge in a baroque, zany and tragic adventure worthy of the great theatrical epics. A documentary film directed by Benjamin Clavel, in production for Arte France.
IN PROGRESS
Nos Projets en Cours
  • Samir fête ses 40 ans le 23 août 2025. 40 ans de « Chouchou », mon grand frère. Cet anniversaire sera joyeux comme lui. Il célèbre la vie et l’amour. L’amour pour un enfant, un frère, un voisin, un cousin handicapé devenu adulte. Mais est-ce-que mes parents s’attendaient à ce...
  • She devoured children in fairy tales, and now she saves the world in TV series. A stigma, an icon, the witch hovers everywhere in our imagination and her representations draw a singular history of women. A murderous fantasy of witch hunts, a banner of feminists, an ideal of a new...
  • "On the Way" est un documentaire qui suscite la réflexion et explore la relation entre l'homme et la nature dans les montagnes polonaises des Tatras, en se concentrant sur le tourisme de masse sur le site dit de "l'oeil de la mer", l'un des plus beaux lacs d’Europe. Il s'agit...
  • Luisa Magno vit dans un petit village calabrais et a toujours été en guerre avec tout et tout le monde. C’est une femme méridionale atypique, capable d'aller à l'encontre des valeurs familiales traditionnelles, tout en s'adaptant à son environnement provincial. Ses journées se déroulent entre divers petits boulots et le...
  • Vinii et Keiona sont les parents de la branche française de la House of Revlon, l'une des familles les plus emblématiques de la ballrom scene. Ils élèvent leurs kids, Mariana, Nunoy, Gigi et Riley avec amour et... discipline. Car l'enjeu est de taille : ils doivent organiser en 2024 le...
  • L’histoire commence il y a 400 ans, à la frontière entre la France et l’Espagne, dans la région côtière du pays basque français, le Labourd, peuplé de chasseurs de baleines et de femmes de marins. En 1609, un conflit local tourne aux accusations de sorcellerie. Henri IV nomme deux hommes...

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