The director was born in 1964, the son of a farming family in Villefranche-de-Rouergue in the southwest of France, where most of his films are set. His most successful film to date, Stranger by the Lake, won the Best Director Award in Un Certain Regard at Cannes as well as the Queer Palm. Also a novelist, he published his debut title “Ici commence la nuit” in 2014. His film Staying Vertical screened in competition at the 2016 Cannes film festival.
Nobody's Hero
The King of Escape
Time Has Come
No Rest for the Brave
That Old Dream That Moves
Straight Ahead Until Morning
Stranger by the Lake
Sunshine for the Poor
La force des choses
Heroes Never Die
Staying Vertical
Un petit cas de conscience
Les Yeux au Plafond
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Au Pic de Nore
On m'a volé mon adolescence
Misericordia
