Robin Campillo was born in Morocco, in 1962. In 1983 he was admitted to the IDHEC school for cinema (which in the meantime became La Femis), where he met Laurent Cantet, with whom he’s been working as a screenwriter and film editor since the end of the ’90s. They worked together for L’Emploi du temps (Time Out), Entre les murs (The Class), Foxfire – Confessions d’un gang de fille (Foxfire), and most recently L’Atelier (The Workshop), shown this year in Cannes’s Un Certain Regard.
His 2004 feature film debut Les Revenants is a dystopia based on the idea that one day the death rise up unscathed from their graves and come back in millions amongst the living. The film, selected in Venice, then inspired the Canal+ TV series Eastern Boys (2013), “a masterful story about a great invasion and dispossession”, in the words of Télérama magazine. The film won the Orizzonti section award in Venice and received two César nominations for Best Film and Best Director.
He then authored the script for Planétarium (Planetarium) by Rebecca Zlotowski (2016), a drama about the collective blindness at the end of the ‘30s. His third feature film, 120 battements sur minute, brings him an important award: the Grand Prix in Cannes 2017.