Robin Campillo is a French filmmaker born in Mohammedia, Morocco, in 1962. In the eighties, at IDHEC, he met Laurent Cantet with whom he would go on to co-write and edit several films, including Time Out in 2001, Heading South in 2005 and The Class, Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and which earned him a César Award for Best Adaptation in 2009. He directed They Came Back, his first feature film, in 2004. His second film, Eastern Boys, was screened at the Venice International Film Festival in 2013 where it won the Orizzonti Prize for Best Film. His feature film 120 BPM, presented in Competition at the Festival de Cannes 2017, won the Grand Prix, and, hailed by critics and audiences alike, received a number of awards and was a worldwide success. In 2024, he directed Enzo, Laurent Cantet’s last film written together, which premiered at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight and received the Queer Palm. Special Guests 2025 Oliver Laxe Lucrecia Martel Jafar Panahi Juliette Binoche Special Guests in Other Editions Francis Ford Coppola Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Ava DuVernay Leos Carax Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Barry Jenkins Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda J. M. Coetzee Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
Robin Campillo is a French filmmaker born in Mohammedia, Morocco, in 1962. In the eighties, at IDHEC, he met Laurent Cantet with whom he would go on to co-write and edit several films, including Time Out in 2001, Heading South in 2005 and The Class, Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and which earned him a César Award for Best Adaptation in 2009. He directed They Came Back, his first feature film, in 2004. His second film, Eastern Boys, was screened at the Venice International Film Festival in 2013 where it won the Orizzonti Prize for Best Film. His feature film 120 BPM, presented in Competition at the Festival de Cannes 2017, won the Grand Prix, and, hailed by critics and audiences alike, received a number of awards and was a worldwide success. In 2024, he directed Enzo, Laurent Cantet’s last film written together, which premiered at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight and received the Queer Palm.
