Biography
Audrey Diwan is a French writer and film director. Born in 1980 in Paris, she studied journalism and political science before working as a journalist and editor at publications including Glamour and Stylist. She also published novels, including La Fabrication d'un mensonge (2008).
Diwan began screenwriting in 2008 and co-wrote several films with director Cédric Jimenez, among them The Connection (2014) and The Stronghold (2021). Her directorial debut was Losing It (2019). She wrote and directed Happening (2021), adapted from Annie Ernaux’s novel, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Subsequent work includes screenplays for Just the Two of Us (2023) and Beating Hearts (2024), and she directed Emmanuelle (2024).
