[3] In 2004, he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc.

In February 2008, he got the prize Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film Luftibus, written by director Dominque de Rivaz.

In September 2008, Basman received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film.

Joel Basman starred as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called Late Shift in 2016.

In 2018, Basman played the lead role in The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch, which was picked up by Netflix.