Alexis Langlois

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Alexis Langlois (born 1989) is a French film director and screenwriter, whose debut feature film Queens of Drama (Les Reines du drame) premiered in the Critics' Week program at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. [1]

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He previously directed a number of short films, the most noted of which, The Demons of Dorothy (Les Démons de Dorothy), won the Pardino d’argento SRG SSR for the International Competition at the 74th Locarno Film Festival in 2021. [2] He has also been a two-time finalist for the Iris Prize, for Terror, Sisters! (De la terreur, mes soeurs!) in 2021 [3] and for The Demons of Dorothy in 2022. [4]

He also directed "Marathon", a 2023 music video for pop singer Bilal Hassani which also starred porn actor François Sagat. [5]

A native of Le Havre, Normandy, he moved to Paris in 2007 to study film at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy. [6] His sister, Justine Langlois, is an actress who regularly appears in his films. [6]

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