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 Habits, Confessions d'un salaud, De l'autre côté de l'été, La fabrication d'un mensonge, Cléo de 5 à 7. Her directorial debut film Losing It premiered in 2019. Her 2021 film Happening was selected for the main competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, where it was subsequently awarded the Golden Lion, thus making her the sixth female director to ever win this award. Diwan was in a relationship with French director Cédric Jimenez, with whom she had two children, born in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Diwan and Jimenez separated in 2018. On 29 September 2023, Diwan announced her engagement to film producer Thibault Gast, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2021. She is a member of Collectif 50/50, a French NGO promoting equality between men and women in the film industry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Audrey Diwan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 1, 1980 (46)
- France
- Writer and director, also actor and producer
- 12 on MovieCove · 20 credits in all
What are Audrey Diwan's films like?
Across their 13 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Power and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 13
Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 10
Grounded 10 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1
A split, not a type: Gentle 3 · Charged 4 · Intense 6
Steady 6 · Shifting 7 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 12 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 9 · Relentless 1
Casual 4 · Engaged 6 · Full focus 3
A split, not a type: Easy watch 4 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 8
Resolved 6 · Open-ended 6 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet5
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous6
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Audrey Diwan's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Audrey Diwan's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
20 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page; 9 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Mickey 17(2025)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Barbès, little Algérie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Beating Hearts(2024)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
Emmanuelle(2024)
Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all films
The Good Teacher(2024)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Visions(2023)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
Just the Two of Us(2023)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Happening(2021)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
The Stronghold(2020)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Losing It(2019)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
(Girl)Friend(2018)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
The Connection(2014)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Paris Under Watch (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Twenty Show: The Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
De feu et de glace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
De l'autre côté de l'été (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Smiling Hacker (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Infinite Present Ends (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Marriage Portrait (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 20 titles, 16 of them dated from 2008 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Beating Hearts (2024)
Highest rated
Happening (2021)
Most popular right now
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
2 major awards from 4 major nominations, 2021–2023.
- Directors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Director
- Venice award, won · Best Film
- Venice award, won · Competition
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Audrey Diwan's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 65th percentile, the median of all 12; across their 13 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 64th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th5
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
None of their 12 titles divides audiences: 8 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Panned1
- Crowd Pleaser8
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the dialogue 47/100 and the plot and story 47/100 in their films, across 9 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Audrey Diwan's work okay for kids?
Across up to 7 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, sex & nudity and alcohol & drugs run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Audrey Diwan work with?
People who share at least 2 of Audrey Diwan's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Laurent Tangy shares the most, 7.
Directors
- Cédric JimenezShared titles: The Stronghold (2020), The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), The Connection (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Cédric Jimenez
Writers
- Marcia RomanoShared titles: Happening (2021), Losing It (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Marcia Romano
Actors
- François CivilShared titles: Beating Hearts (2024), The Good Teacher (2024), The Stronghold (2020)See all 3 shared titles with François Civil
- Gilles LelloucheShared titles: Beating Hearts (2024), The Stronghold (2020), The Connection (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Gilles Lellouche
- Adèle ExarchopoulosShared titles: Beating Hearts (2024), The Stronghold (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Adèle Exarchopoulos
- Karim LeklouShared titles: Beating Hearts (2024), The Stronghold (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Karim Leklou
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Laurent TangyShared titles: Beating Hearts (2024), Emmanuelle (2024), Just the Two of Us (2023), Happening (2021), The Stronghold (2020), The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), The Connection (2014)See all 7 shared titles with Laurent Tangy
- Guillaume RousselShared titles: The Stronghold (2020), Losing It (2019), The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), The Connection (2014)See all 4 shared titles with Guillaume Roussel
- Pauline GaillardShared titles: Emmanuelle (2024), Just the Two of Us (2023), Losing It (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Pauline Gaillard
- Evgueni GalperineShared titles: Emmanuelle (2024), Happening (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Evgueni Galperine
Producers
- Edouard WeilShared titles: Emmanuelle (2024), Just the Two of Us (2023), Happening (2021), Losing It (2019)See all 4 shared titles with Edouard Weil
- Alice GirardShared titles: Just the Two of Us (2023), Happening (2021), Losing It (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Alice Girard
- Hugo SélignacShared titles: Beating Hearts (2024), The Stronghold (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Hugo Sélignac
- Philippe LogieShared titles: Beating Hearts (2024), Visions (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Philippe Logie
Mixed roles
- Rebecca ZlotowskiShared titles: Emmanuelle (2024), Room 999 (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Rebecca Zlotowski
- Valérie DonzelliShared titles: Just the Two of Us (2023), Losing It (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Valérie Donzelli
