--- name: "Julia Ducournau" canonical: "https://film.one/person/julia-ducournau" fi1m_id: "julia-ducournau" imdb_id: "nm4469445" tmdb_id: 1392433 wikidata_id: "Q24061147" roles: ["Director"] born: "18 November 1983" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-30T21:05:53.547905+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Julia Ducournau ## Identity Julia Ducournau - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/julia-ducournau - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** julia-ducournau - **IMDb ID:** nm4469445 - **TMDB ID:** 1392433 - **Wikidata ID:** Q24061147 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ducournau, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24061147, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4469445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1392433 Director. Born 18 November 1983 in Paris, France. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 18 November 1983, Paris, France - **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ducournau, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24061147, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4469445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1392433 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Titane*](https://film.one/film/titane.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Julia Ducournau > Julia Ducournau makes films in which something goes wrong with a body: a girl who eats flesh, a woman who bleeds oil. *Raw* was tight and funny; *Titane* is bigger, stranger and less sure what it means. We rate her, with reservations about the middle. The image we kept from *Titane* (2021) is oil where blood should be. Alexia, played by Agathe Rousselle, has a titanium plate in her head from a childhood crash and gets pregnant by a car, and as the pregnancy grows her skin splits to show metal underneath. Ducournau shoots it close and does not look away. That is her habit in one sentence: a body does something it should not, the camera stays on it, and we are asked to keep watching until the flinch passes and we start to wonder what the person inside is feeling. She once said of the girls in *Raw*, "A body is a body." She films as if she means it. She trained in screenwriting at La Fémis in Paris, made a short, *Junior* (2011), and a co-directed television film, *Mange* (2012), and then *Raw* (2016), about a vegetarian who develops a taste for flesh. We found *Raw* tight, funny and controlled. Garance Marillier, who led it, turns up in *Titane* as a fellow dancer, a nod admirers of the first film will enjoy. *Titane* itself was looser, bigger and less certain, and we scored it 74. Since then she has directed episodes of *Servant* (2021) and *The New Look* (2024), and a third feature, *Alpha* (2025), which the reviews so far have called dour and disjointed. We have not reviewed it and will not pretend to judge it here. What works is the pairing of extremity with tenderness. The best of *Titane* is not the killing or the car but Vincent Lindon's fire captain, a lonely man who takes in a stranger and decides she is his missing son, so that the second half becomes a story about two damaged people agreeing to believe a lie. We watched the pregnancy scenes with a dread we could not put a name to, and that is both the praise and the complaint: the make-up is a marvel, and we never knew what Ducournau wanted the thing to mean. Motherhood, gender, the body as a machine that will not take orders: the film touches each and settles on none. What does not work is patience. Once Alexia is inside the fire station the story has two questions, will she be found out and what is she carrying, and Ducournau lets both idle for forty minutes. A young fireman, Rayane (Laïs Salameh), suspects her, and the thread is picked up and dropped. Cronenberg's *Crash* is the plain ancestor for the car and she does not hide it; his people were bored and hers are desperate, which is the more interesting condition and the harder one to sustain. Two features in, the method is sound and the subjects keep changing. *Raw* knew what its horror was for. *Titane* half knew. Start with the first, bring a strong stomach to the second, and see whether the third knows what it is about. ## Biography Julia Ducournau is a French film director and screenwriter. She studied screenwriting at La Fémis in Paris. Her short film *Junior* (2011) won the Petit Rail d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature, *Raw* (2016), premiered in the Critics' Week section at Cannes. She wrote and directed *Titane* (2021), which won the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, making her the second female director to receive the award and the first to win it solo. She has also directed episodes of the television series *Servant* (2019) and *The New Look* (2024). Her third feature, *Alpha* (2025), premiered at Cannes. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Titane* (2021), Fi1m 74, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/titane.md) ## Complete filmography (11) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Alpha* (2025), Director, Writer - *The New Look* (2024), series, Director - *Titane* (2021), Writer, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/titane.md) - *Servant* (2019), series, Director - *French Frights* (2019), Director - *Corporate* (2017), Script Consultant - *Raw* (2017), Director, Screenplay, Dialogue - *A Taste of Ink* (2017), Script Consultant - *Eat* (2012), as Cousine à Moustache · Director, Writer - *Junior* (2011), Writer, Director - *Untitled Julia Ducournau & A24 Project*, Director, Writer ## Gallery - ![Julia Ducournau presenting the movie Alpha at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-6797f60b6fb0.jpg) Julia Ducournau presenting the movie Alpha at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/MKr385837_Julia_Ducournau_%28Alpha%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg/1280px-MKr385837_Julia_Ducournau_%28Alpha%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Julia Ducournau](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-f4a1564933a0.jpg) Julia Ducournau — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/MKr386059_Julia_Ducournau_%28Alpha%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg/1280px-MKr386059_Julia_Ducournau_%28Alpha%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Julia Ducournau presenting the movie Alpha at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-fa690ba1b7e7.jpg) Julia Ducournau presenting the movie Alpha at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/MKr386066_Julia_Ducournau_%28Alpha%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg/1280px-MKr386066_Julia_Ducournau_%28Alpha%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Julia Ducournau, Director and screen writer, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-049afa33e109.jpg) Julia Ducournau, Director and screen writer, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (2025) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Julia_Ducournau_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival_%282_of_3%29.jpg/1280px-Julia_Ducournau_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival_%282_of_3%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Julia Ducournau](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-979e979968f4.jpg) Julia Ducournau — Image via TMDB - ![Julia Ducournau](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-f9781422db86.jpg) Julia Ducournau — Image via TMDB - ![Julia Ducournau](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-7c1392b522fd.jpg) Julia Ducournau — Image via TMDB - ![Julia Ducournau, Director and screen writer, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-b7165b11ac2e.jpg) Julia Ducournau, Director and screen writer, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (2025) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Julia_Ducournau_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival_%282_of_2%29.jpg/1280px-Julia_Ducournau_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival_%282_of_2%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Julia Ducournau](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-f78aae248909.jpg) Julia Ducournau — Image via TMDB - ![Julia Ducournau](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-91330d0780cf.jpg) Julia Ducournau — Image via TMDB - ![Julia Ducournau](https://film.one/media/person/4125808/gallery-66148b0ebe01.jpg) Julia Ducournau — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won - 2021: Palme d'Or (won), for *Titane* ### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated - Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2022: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won) - European Film Award for Best Director 2021: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *Titane* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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