Julia Ducournau

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Julia Ducournau

Born November 18, 1983 · Paris, France (age 42)

Julia Ducournau is a French film director and screenwriter. She made her feature film debut in 2016 with Raw. At the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, she won the Palme d'Or for her film Titane, which made her the second female director to win the award as well as the first to win the award solo. Her films typically fall under the body horror genre.

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TitaneTitane · 2021
Titane
6.32021
MovieDramaThriller
A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
AlphaAlpha · 2025
Alpha
6.22025
MovieHorrorDrama
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
RawRaw · 2017
Raw
7.02017
MovieHorrorDrama
Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.
CorporateCorporate · 2017
Corporate
6.32017
MovieDramaThriller
Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Resources, working for a huge French agro-food company. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. While an investigation is underway, stuck between her traumatized colleagues and under pressure of a powerful hierarchy, she will have to get by on her own.
EatEat · 2012
Eat
4.62012
MovieTV MovieThriller
Laura is a lawyer, she’s beautiful and has a nice boyfriend. But 15 years ago she was fat, bullied and without friends. Now she has come to terms with her bulimia. She is celebrating her first year abstinence.
Untitled Julia Ducournau & A24 ProjectUntitled Julia Ducournau & A24 Project
Untitled Julia Ducournau & A24 Project
Movie
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French FrightsFrench Frights · 2019
French Frights
2019
MovieHorror
They're only stories - or are they? Delve into these terrifying French shorts for some quick scares, if you dare. A compilation of Horror shorts from daring French filmmakers.
A Taste of InkA Taste of Ink · 2017
A Taste of Ink
6.02017
MovieDrama
Vincent, still of tender age, has already tattooed most of his body and hoarsened his voice with his post-hardcore band – his way of venting his frustrations and desires. Ever since his mother died, he shares his time between Porte de Clignancourt and Bastille, between a piercer job he is unhappy with and his fishmonger father, Hervé, who is trying to start a new life with a younger woman named Julia. Vincent is initially appalled by the woman, with whom his father has ‘betrayed’ his mother, but the more they get to know each other, the more he becomes intrigued by the beautiful and empathetic woman. Unlike his father, she shows interest in him, even attending one of his gigs. What starts out as a potential way of reconciling with his father soon implodes.

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A Taste of InkA Taste of Ink · 2017
A Taste of Ink
6.02017
MovieDrama
Vincent, still of tender age, has already tattooed most of his body and hoarsened his voice with his post-hardcore band – his way of venting his frustrations and desires. Ever since his mother died, he shares his time between Porte de Clignancourt and Bastille, between a piercer job he is unhappy with and his fishmonger father, Hervé, who is trying to start a new life with a younger woman named Julia. Vincent is initially appalled by the woman, with whom his father has ‘betrayed’ his mother, but the more they get to know each other, the more he becomes intrigued by the beautiful and empathetic woman. Unlike his father, she shows interest in him, even attending one of his gigs. What starts out as a potential way of reconciling with his father soon implodes.

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