Artistic Director of Readings

After studying history and art history, Alice Douard enrolled at La Fémis film school in the directing department. Her graduation film, Extrasystole, was purchased by Arte and selected for numerous festivals, including Premiers Plans (2014), Clermont-Ferrand, Brive, and Pantin. She then worked on various projects as a script supervisor and assistant director before directing two other short films, Les Filles and Plein ouest, which explore themes close to her heart: femininity, the search for identity within a group, and family relationships. At the end of 2016, she directed a TV movie, Robin, produced by Cinétévé and Arte (broadcast at the end of 2017). In 2022, she created the company Les Films de June with Marie Boitard and directed her fourth short film, L’Attente, for which she won the César Award for Best Short Fiction Film in 2024. That same year, she directed and co-produced her first feature film, Des preuves d'amour, selected for Critics' Week in 2025. The screenplay had been read at Premiers Plans in 2024, where it received the Audience Award.