Thibault-Théodore is a filmmaker based in the Basque Country.

Raised queer in a place that offered no clear shape for him, he learned early to invent the worlds he could not find around him. Stories became a way to survive.

He left school young. At seventeen, he moved through Asia, supporting himself through sex work while drifting between countries, languages, and borrowed lives. Living on the margins exposed him to forms of intimacy, loneliness, and performance that would later become central to his cinema. Photography came first, almost by accident. Film followed. There was no formal training and no predetermined path.

His work occupies the porous boundary between autobiography and fiction. He often keeps his actors’ real names while reinventing everything around them, creating films that feel both documentary and dream. Drawing from experiences that cannot be researched from a distance, his stories explore exile, desire, addiction, chosen families, and the persistent search for belonging.

At the center of his films is often the same figure: a wounded child trapped inside an adult body, searching for a way home. Through ancestral medicine, chemical escape, obsession, love, and altered states, his characters navigate worlds where memory and imagination become impossible to separate.

He makes films about people trying to invent themselves before the world decides who they are

Films distributed by Mailuki Films:

• Pleasure Struggle, 2026