GUEST BIO

Anne-Sophie Bailly was born and raised in Franche-Comté (east of France). She started out as an actress in theater and film before joining the Femis directing department in 2017. There, between 2018 and 2021, she directed several short films, navigating between documentary (En Travail, 2019) and fiction. Her films are marked by a taste for staging groups, and the themes of care, maternity, filiation and transmission. Her graduation short, La Ventrière (2021), is steeped in these obsessions. It was selected for over forty festivals worldwide, from France (Clermont-Ferrand) to the United States (Telluride), and won a dozen awards. As well as directing, she co-wrote several screenplays, including Dog on Trial with Laetitia Dosch in 2021, for which they were awarded by the Valois du Scénario at the Angouleme Film Festival in 2024. She is currently working with Valentine Caille, Manuel Billi, Idrissa Guiro, and Vincent O'Connell in the UK. Her first feature film, My Everything, starring Laure Calamy and the young Charles Peccia Galletto, is in the Orizzonti Official Selection of Venice Mostra 2024, where she received the Special Prize Film Impresa Award, the Sorriso Diverso Award for Best Foreign Film and the Autrici under 40 Award.