Alice Winocour

Director

MASTERCLASS

Alice Winocour was born in Paris in 1976. Following a course in scriptwriting at the FEMIS, she directed three short films (including Kitchen, selected as part of the Official Competition at Cannes in 2005) and collaborated on scripts for feature films, including Ordinary People by Vladimir Perisic (Semaine de la Critique, Cannes 2009) and Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2015). In 2011, she directed Augustine (Semaine de la Critique, Cannes 2012). Her second feature film, Maryland, was screened as part of the Official Selection at Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2015), and later at the Toronto International Film Festival Gala (TIFF 2015).