Rebecca Zlotowski


Rebecca Zlotowski is a French film director and screenwriter. Her second feature film Grand Central, a love story exploring three-way romance between nuclear plant workers, won the François Chalais Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Early life

Her father came to France from Poland when he was five. She has said, “Jewish people were leaving Poland because it was not a good country for us.”
Zlotowski is a graduate of France’s prestigious La Fémis school. While there she befriended musician Para One who introduced her to director Céline Sciamma who would become her friend and mentor.

Career

She began her career as a screenwriter. She has written screenplays for several short films. She co-wrote Teddy Lussi-Modeste’s Jimmy Riviere.
Zlotowski made her directorial debut with the film Belle Épine, which premiered in the International Critics' Week section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film starred Léa Seydoux and although it wasn't a commercial success, the film won a Louis Delluc Prize for best first film and Seydoux was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress.
She followed up that film with Grand Central starring Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
In 2014, Zlotowski was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the head of the jury for the Sony CineAlta Discovery Prize and the France 4 Visionary Award for the International Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
She was selected to be on the jury for the Cinéfondation and short films sections of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2015 Zlotowski announced her next film would be Planetarium starring Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as sisters. The film screened Out of Competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.
Zlotowski's fourth film An Easy Girl premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section where it won the SACD Award for Best French-language Film. The film starred model Zahia Dehar whom Zlotowski had met over Instagram.

Filmography