Audrey Diwan

Biography

Audrey Diwan (born 1980) is a French film director of Lebanese origin. Prior to becoming a film director, she worked as a journalist and a screenwriter. In 2021, her film Happening won the Golden Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in a "unanimous decision." Before filmmaking, Diwan was a junior editor at Denoël as well as publishing various novels. She wrote many books, which led her to become a screenwriter including How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad H…