Guillaume Nicloux

Guillaume Nicloux (b. 1966, Melun, France) began his artistic career as a director and actor on the Paris theater scene. In 1987 he shot the short L'orage and a year later his first feature La piste aux étoiles. Other films include The Flying Children (Les enfants volants, 1990), Happiness Is No Joke (Faut pas rire du bonheur, 1994), The Octopus (La poulpe, 1998), A Private Affair (Une affaire privée, 2001), That Woman (Cette femme-là, 2003), The Stone Council (Le concil de pierre, 2005), and The Key (La clef, 2007). Considering his work to date, he took a generic detour with a Diderot novel adaptation, The Nun (La religieuse, 2013), which was invited to compete at the Berlinale. At the 2014 Berlin IFF, the Forum section presented The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq. Nicloux has taught at Paris's La fémis film school for the past ten years, and he is also active in literature.

MFF Karlovy Vary