Lives and works in Belgium.
I grew up in the French Alps and spent my teenage years in Vénissieux, a working-class suburb of Lyon. My work explores the intimate and collective memory of these formative landscapes.
Before turning to cinema, I studied visual arts and then pursued my training at INSAS, Belgium’s public national film school in Brussels, graduating in 2006 with a degree in Film Directing and Production.
I root my stories in the concrete reality of a territory and the practices that inhabit it. Film stock is my preferred medium, as its ritual matters to me as well: it forces me to shoot very few takes and elevates time and speech to something sacred.
I approach filmmaking as a shared, family-like experience. My crew is very small, mostly composed of longtime friends. I film people close to me, as well as spontaneous encounters with passersby. I also enjoy working with the same actors from one film to the next.
My films have been presented and awarded at several international festivals, notably Locarno, Cannes, and Berlin, as well as at festivals that have supported me from the beginning, such as Ghent, Trento, and Autrans in Isère. In 2016, my short film The Fullness of time won the Golden Leopard and received a nomination at the European Film Awards. In 2020, I won the Special Elfi Dassanowsky Prize in Vienna for my medium-length film Tide, along with a nomination for the French Critics’ Award.
In parallel, I joined the Brussels-based collective VOA Films in 2007 and produced the documentary trilogy Campo Hablado by Nicolas Rincón Gille. Firmly convinced that writer-directors benefit from being fully involved in the production process, I partnered in 2021 with directors and producers Jérémy van der Haegen and Nicolas Rincón Gille at the Belgian production company The Blue Raincoat.
In 2023, I was awarded the Author Development Grant from the French National Center for Cinema (CNC), which allowed me to pursue my fieldwork in a mountain hut that I tend during the summer. In 2024, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation’s Light Production Support Program enabled me to joyfully complete Forest High, my first feature film. In 2026 The film makes its world premiere at the Berlinale, in the Perspectives Competition.
I am currently preparing my next feature film, The Song of Falling Mountains.
That said, I am also eager to work on other short films.
And above all, I simply want to continue making films.
Update January_2026
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Sound of falling mountains – Feature screenplay, Beaumarchais Grant winner, 2024
Forest High – CNC Author Career Grant, 2023;
Full night – Best Francophone Short Film, French Film Festival of Bucharest, 2022
Tide – French Critics’ Union Award selection, 2019; Best Director, Vienna Shorts, 2020; Best Screenplay, BlackCanvas (Mexico), 2019
Children leave at dawn – Festivals Grant winner (CNC), Grenoble Open-Air Film Festival, 2015
Fulness of time – Golden Leopard, Locarno Film Festival; European Film Awards nomination; Technical Direction Special Mention, Autrans Mountain Film Festival
White sonata – Henri Storck Award nomination; Ateliers Award, Filmer à tout prix, 2007
CONSULTING & TEACHING
Member, Film Selection Committee, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (since 2025)
Member, CNC Short Film Selection Committee (2021–2023)
Consultant, CVB Screenwriting Workshops (2021–2025)
Supervising Professor, IAD Brussels
Guest lecturer in Belgium and France