A FOREIGN BODY

She was born in London. She apprenticed cinema as an editor, while at the same time she shot totally independent short films, La police (1988) or Scenes de menage (starring Miou Miou) to name only a few. She discovered the practice of direct cinema at the Ateliers Varan and she shot several documentaries: Les Patients, Recreations and At All Costs, which won a number of first prizes in various festivals. The latter two were theatrically distributed, establishing a new school in documentary making in French cinema. In 1997, she presented her first feature film A Foreign Body, the story of a woman that pretends she’s pregnant and steals a child, in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. She was commissioned by Arte to create a film for the students of TNS in the European Parliament, That’s Just Like You, a hybrid of fiction film and documentary which was recieved both the best fiction and the best documentary film awards at the Belfort IFF. After a brief spell working in the theater, she revived her skills in documentary making, by shooting 800 km de difference/romance and Mimi (Berlin IFF 2003), which were both theatrically distributed. Her second feature film, Ca brule, was presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2006. In 2008 she directed The Offices of God, which brought together Nathalie Baye, Nicole Garcia, Michel Boujenah, Beatrice Dalle, Rachida Brakhni, Isabelle Carre, Emmanuel Mouret and non-professional actors. It was also presented at the Directors’ Fortnight.