Vincent Dieutre, a French filmmaker known for autobiographical films connecting private experience with wider social and historical realities, died in Paris on Aug. 10, 2026, of cardiac arrest at 65, Le Monde reported.
After studying film at the Paris film school IDHEC, he received a Villa Médicis arts fellowship and spent 1989 in Rome. His first feature, Rome désolée (1996), combined images of Rome’s margins, news footage and an intimate diary about love and addiction.
In 1997, he began teaching cinema at Paris-VIII and other institutions while organizing screenings that linked cinema with visual art. In Leçons de ténèbres (2000), he retraced the end of a love affair in a travel film that moved from Utrecht through Rome to Naples. A France Culture commission, Bologna Centrale (2002–04), became both a film and a work for exhibition.
In Jaurès (2012–13), Dieutre placed a personal relationship alongside the lives of Afghan refugees in Paris. The film won the Teddy Award, the top prize in the Berlin International Film Festival’s queer-film section.
