Sandrine Dumas

Sandrine Dumas combines cinema and theater, as an actress and director.

Her film credits include roles for Medhi Charef, Robert Altman, Ermanno Olmi, Milos Forman, Laurent Perrin, Krzystof Kieslowski, Jacques Fansten, Giacommo Campiotti, James Huth and Mia Hansen Løve.

In 2003, she writes and directs her first short film, Le garde du corps, with Morgane Montoriol and Martin Buisson (Special Jury Mention at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Digne-les-Bains Film Festival and the CNC Quality Award, selected for the Créteil and Rome Film festivals).

In 2004, she directs Chère Maître with Marie-France Pisier, Thierry Fortineau, André Marcon and Renaud Pion, followed by Love Letters with Anouk Aimée and Philippe Noiret, then Jacques Weber (2006 Globe de Cristal for Best Play) and finally Transatlantic Affairs with Marie-France Pisier in New York.

In 2010, she directs and co-produces The Invention of Happy Days with Katia Golubeva and Yanan Li (the Audience Award at the 2011 Créteil Film Festival and the CNC Quality Award, Busan Film Festival, Korea Film Festival). In 2015, she directs and produces the documentary Nostos (Second Jury Prize and the Critics' & Photo Award, selected at the 2016 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Chalkida Film Festival 2016). In 2019, she directs Sing Me Back Home with Monia Chokri and Jérémie Elkaïm.

With Pio & Co, she co-produces multiple films including The Woods Dreams Are Made Of by Claire Simon (2016), Editeur by Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (2016), Maya by Mia Hansen-Love (2018) and My Nudity Means Nothing by Marine de Van (2018).