Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet

After studying literature and drama, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet worked for a time in publishing at Grasset. At the same time, she played small roles in films by Lucas Belvaux, Philippe Le Guay and Mia Hansen-Løve. In 2016, she directs her first self-produced short film, Joujou, which was very well received. In 2018, her second short film Pauline Enslaved was selected for the Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Rail d'or prize for Best Short Film, and at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, where it received the Jury's Special Mention and the Press Prize of Telerama. It was also shortlisted for the César Awards 2020 and screened at over thirty festivals in France and around the world, where it won a dozen awards.

Her first feature film, Anaïs in Love, starring Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Denis Podalydès, was presented in a special screening at the Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival 2021 and sold in over twenty countries. His second feature, A Woman's Life, starring Léa Drucker and Mélanie Thierry, was screened in the Competition section at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival and is due for release in theaters in September 2026.