Katell Quillévéré

In 2004, Katell Quillévéré co-founds the Brive Film Festival with Sébastien Bailly, dedicated to medium-length films, and makes several short films. Her first short film, With All My Might, released in 2005, is selected for the Director’s Fortnight and nominated for a César.

It is followed by L'Imprudence in 2007 and Escape in 2009, before the release of her first feature film, Love Like Poison, tackling the themes of adolescence, love and the Catholic religion. The film wins the 2010 Jean-Vigo Prize. Her second feature, The Staple of News, tells the story of an ordinary young woman who falls in love with a delinquent. The film is selected to open Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.

Her third feature film Heal the Living, an adaptation of Maylis de Kerangal's novel of the same name published in 2013, is selected in the Orizzonti category at the Venice Film Festival and released in cinemas in 2016. With Hélier Cisterne, she co-directs a six-part series for Arte, Reign Supreme, which tells the story of Kool Shen and Joey Starr’s adolescence and the genesis of the group NTM.

Her latest film, Along Came Love, starring Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste, is presented at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Première Selection. The film wins the Valois de Diamant and the Valois of Acting for Vincent Lacoste at the 2023 Angoulême Film Festival.