Céline Devaux

ActivitiesDirector, Screenwriter, Director of photography, Editor, Voice, Animation, Visual effects

SecteurCinéma

Biography

Céline Devaux joined the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2007, where she directed Life and Death of the Illustrious Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, which won awards at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and the Premiers Plans Festival. Her second short, Sunday Lunch, was selected in Official Competition at Cannes in 2015. Presented in nearly 40 festivals around the world, it won the César for Best Animated Short. Her next title, You Will Be Fine, won the Golden Lion for Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival in 2017.
In 2022, her first feature film, Everybody Loves Jeanne, was presented in the Special Screening strand at Critics’ Week in Cannes and released in French theaters in September 2022.

Filmography(7)

Soleilles

(2023)

Arnold Is a Model Student

(2022)

Everybody Loves Jeanne

(2021)

Genius Loci

(2019)

You Will Be Fine

(2017)

Sunday Lunch

(2015)

Life and Death of the Illustrious Grigori Efimovitch Raspoutine

(2012)

11 JANUARY 2023

10 to Watch 2023 : 10 new French talents to discover

They have been grabbing attention in recent months at the festivals of Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, New York, San Sebastián... They’ll be seen on screens around the world in 2023. They are the new faces of French cinema, and they are UniFrance's 10 to Watch 2023.

Unifrance is proud to to focus the spotlight on this new generation of directors, actors, and actresses, who contribute so fully to the effervescence of French cinematographic creation, and to encourage the distribution of their films beyond France’s borders.
Unifrance 10 to Watch 2022

Dali Benssalah, actor
Bastien Bouillon, actor
Davy Chou, director
Céline Devaux, director
Lyna Khoudri, actress
Paul Kircher, actor
Charlotte Le Bon, director
Annabelle Lengronne, actress
Rebecca Marder, actress
Nadia Tereszkiewicz, actress

15 NOVEMBER 2022

Berlin French Film Week (2022)

Type: UniFrance festival
Theme: French films
Location: Germany
Date: from 24/11/2022 to 30/11/2022

The Berlin French Film Week, founded as part of an initiative launched by the French Institute in 2000, is a competitive festival organized by the French Embassy in Germany in collaboration with uniFrance Films and the Yorck Kino group.

This festival showcases around thirty films, including a dozen titles presented in preview screenings, some of these from Quebec, Belgium and Africa. Films selected include productions presented by German distributors, who use the event as a launching pad in the lead-up to fheir films' commercial release, as well as the latest French films yet to find a buyer.

9,000 spectators attend the festival each year.

More info: https://en.unifrance.org/festivals-and-markets/1004/berlin-french-film-week/2022

25 JUNE 2021

Official Teaser | MyFrenchFilmFestival Cannes Special Edition

From July 6 to 17, 2021, you can discover 12 feature films and 12 short films, all subtitled in more than 10 languages, for free and worldwide on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com. The shorts will also be broadcast on UniFrance's YouTube channel (@unifrance), MyFrenchFilmFestival's Facebook page (@myfrenchfilmfestival) and MyFrenchFilmFestival's Instagram account (@myfrenchfilmfestival).

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