Audrey Diwan

Audrey Diwan

Audrey Diwan (born 1980) is a French film director of Lebanese origin. Prior to becoming a film director, she worked as a journalist and a screenwriter. In 2021, her film Happening won the Golden Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in a “unanimous decision.”

Before filmmaking, Diwan was a junior editor at Denoël as well as publishing various novels.

She wrote many books, which led her to become a screenwriter including How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits, Confessions d’un salaud, De l’autre côté de l’été, La fabrication d’un mensonge, Cléo de 5 à 7.

Her directorial debut film Losing It premiered in 2019.

Her 2021 film Happening was selected for the main competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, where it was subsequently awarded the Golden Lion, thus making her the sixth female director to ever win this award.

Diwan was in a relationship with French director Cédric Jimenez, with whom she had two children, born in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Diwan and Jimenez separated in 2018. On 29 September 2023, Diwan announced her engagement to film producer Thibault Gast, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2021.

She is a member of Collectif 50/50, a French NGO promoting equality between men and women in the film industry.

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Happening (2021)

Drama
In early 1960s France, Anne is a diligent student whose academic promise feels within reach. An unplanned pregnancy threatens everything: her education, her independence, her escape from working-class constraints. As...
Score 7.2

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