Julia Ducournau

"I think there is a violence that is very specific to women filmmakers, in terms of horror: a violence that is inside, not a violence that you have to fight against, a violence that you have to manage within yourself. This inside-out makes all the difference." Julia Ducournau is a French film director and screenwriter. She attended La Fémis film school in Paris, where she studied Script Writing. In 2011, her short film "Junior" won the Petit Rail d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making clear her interest in the treatment of the body, the representation of the female experience and horror. In 2016 she released her debut feature "Raw", a tale of a modern-day cannibal with which she won the coveted FIPRESCI award, again at Cannes. Just three years later, she redoubles the bet with her masterful "Titane", a complex, sensitive and audacious film with which she becomes the first woman to win the Palme d'Or solo and establishes herself as the Queen of Body Horror (with David Cronenberg's approval!).