Julia Ducournau

Julia Ducournau is a French film director and screenwriter. She attended film school at La Fémis in Paris, where she studied screenwriting. Her audacious debut short JUNIOR ingeniously uses body horror to peel away layers of adolescent anxieties, revealing a deep empathy for the physical and

mental changes endured by teenage girls. In 2011, JUNIOR won the Petit Rail d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature, the horror movie RAW (2016), won the coveted FIPRESCI prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In September 2019, she wrote and shot her second feature film Titane, and ni 2020, two episodes of the American series Servant, created and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, for Apple TV.

In 2021, she presented Titane at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d’Or, becoming the second woman to win this award, 28 years after Jane Campion and the first to win it alone.

She is currently in postproduction of her third feature film, Alpha starring Tahar Rahim and Golshifteh Farahani, which is set to be released in 2025.