Katell Quillévéré

Katell Quillévéré is a French screenwriter and movie director. In 2003-2009 she shot four short writer-director pictures, and in 2010 she came out with her first feature title Love Like Poison (Un poison violent), which sensitively portrays a girl's complicated coming of age in a Catholic boarding school; the film won the Jean Vigo Prize.

She is highly interested in relationships and emotional bonds, and in her next film Suzanne (2013) what seemed at first to the young protagonist like supportive sisterly and fatherly love becomes an oppressive burden. Her latest psychological drama, with ambitions to philosophy, is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by French writer Maylis de Kerangal, and Quillévéré was nominated for a César for Best Adapted Screenplay.

MFF Karlovy Vary