Mia Hansen-Løve

Initially an actress, she was admitted to the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of the 10th arrondissement in Paris in 2001. She left the school in 2003 to write for Cahiers du Cinéma, where she worked until 2005, while directing several short films.

After her first feature film, All is Forgiven (2006), winner of the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film, nominated for the César for Best First Film and selected for the Director’s Fortnight, she directs Father Of my Children in 2008, which wins the Jury’s Special Prize Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and the Lumière Prize for Best Screenplay, and is selected for the TIFF - Toronto Film Festival and some thirty other international festivals. She then directs Goodbye First Love (2011), with a Special Mention at the Locarno Film Festival, also selected at TIFF and in some twenty other festivals around the world. This is followed by Eden (2014), presented at TIFF and San Sebastian Film Festival in competition, and Things To Come (2016), which wins seven festival awards, including the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival. The film is also sold in nearly forty territories worldwide. Maya (2018) is presented at TIFF, BFI (London) and the Festival International of La Roche-sur-Yon. Her seventh feature, Bergman Island, starring Mia Wasikowska, Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps, is in official competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Her latest film, One Fine Morning, starring Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud and Nicole Garcia, is selected for the 2022 Director’s Fortnight, where it receives the Label Europa Cinema Award, as well as for the Toronto, Telluride and San Sebastian Film Festivals.

Her next film, If Love Should Die, will portray the life of visionary English writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. The film will be shot in 2025 in the UK, France, Scandinavia and Portugal.