Nolwenn Lemesle

After a university course in Performing Arts and a Master’s degree in Cinema with a focus on Screenwriting, Nolwenn Lemesle wrote and directed her first short film Poids plume with the G.R.E.C in 2005. Two years later, she followed up with Sid, produced by Paris-Brest Productions & Gloria Films.

Nolwenn also contributes to the projects of her peers as a writer or consultant. She notably participated in writing the feature film Par suite d’un arrêt de travail… directed by Frédéric Andréi.

Des morceaux de moi, her first feature film as both writer and director, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, Zabou Breitman, and Tchéky Karyo, was released in 2013 and won the Bayard d’Or for Best First Work at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur.

In 2020, she directed a TV movie for Arte, Les Héritières, starring Tracy Gotoas, Déborah François, and Fanta Kébé, written by Laure-Élisabeth Bourdaud and Johanna Goldschmidt.

In 2021, Mauvaise troupe, a short film Nolwenn co-wrote with Ronan Bertrand, was released.