Marine Atlan

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Marine Atlan

Marine Atlan is a French film director and cinematographer. Her debut feature film, La Gradiva, premiered in the Critics' Week section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the section's Grand Prize.

Known For

In Bed with VictoriaIn Bed with Victoria · 2016
In Bed with Victoria
★ 5.92016
MovieComedyDrama
Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an old client. Her life is about to take a new turn.
The RaptureThe Rapture · 2023
The Rapture
★ 6.72023
MovieDrama
Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup.
La Gradiva
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La Gradiva · 2026
La Gradiva
★ 7.02026
MovieDrama
Amid the ancient ruins of Pompeii, a group of French teenagers on a class trip to Naples grapple with anxiety and exhilaration ahead of their high school graduation.
Queens of DramaQueens of Drama · 2024
Queens of Drama
★ 7.02024
MovieMusicRomance
Narrated by an obsessive fan in 2055, an epic, half-century tale unfolds tracking the explosive rise and tragic downfall of a pop icon bound by a mad queer love affair with a punk star.
Room 999Room 999 · 2023
Room 999
★ 5.82023
MovieDocumentary
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
ThunderThunder · 2022
Thunder
★ 5.22022
MovieHistoryDrama
Summer 1900, Switzerland. Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village, walking in her sister’s step to uncover the mystery of her death, Elisabeth is slowly driven to rebel against the local order and for her right to live her life.
DanielDaniel · 2018
Daniel
★ 5.32018
MovieDrama
Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender and troubling, and it seems to take place in a sort of vacuum. In Marine Atlan’s dream-like feature film debut, children dance tango timelessly, recite poems and do the drill for an imaginary terrorist attack.
The Girl in the SnowThe Girl in the Snow · 2025
The Girl in the Snow
★ 5.72025
MovieDrama
1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.

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Leo's AtlasLeo's Atlas · 2018
Leo's Atlas
★ 4.52018
Movie
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Buran, the Soviet response to the NASA space shuttle programme, during the Cold War, was discontinued. Twenty-five years on, a photographer found one prototype of the five that were built, in an abandoned hangar of the Russian launch site in Kazakhstan. The Buran that made the programme's only orbital flight is no more, but nine-year-old Leo is convinced that someone hid it, somewhere in Siberia, and that he will find it. With Elizabeth, he rummages through satellite images, travelling the world in search of traces of the vessel, all without leaving the French seaside, where he spends his holidays. What they need is someone who helps find lost objects. A Siberian tiger will steer them in the right direction. This is a treasure hunt that blurs the limits between imagination and reality and whose sense of urgency contrasts with the long indolent Summer days.

Director of Photography