Lucile Hadžihalilović

Lucile Hadžihalilović (born 1961) is a French film director and screenwriter of Bosnian descent, born in Lyon to a Bosnian Yugoslav father and a French mother and raised in Morocco until she was 17. She studied art history and graduated from the film school La Fémis in 1987. She worked as an editor before directing, and with the Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noé she founded the production company Les Cinémas de la Zone in 1991. Her first short, La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996), was shown in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. Her features are Innocence (2004), inspired by Frank Wedekind's novella Mine-Haha and starring Marion Cotillard, Evolution (2015), Earwig (2021), her first English-language film, and The Ice Tower (2025), which won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival. Several of her films follow children in secluded or mysterious settings.