
Director, editor, and screenwriter, Robin Campillo attended La Fémis film school in the early 1980s. With Laurent Cantet, he co-wrote
Time Out (2001),
Heading South (2005) and
The Class (2008), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the César for best adaptation.
They Came Back, his first film as director, was released in 2004 and was the inspiration for the series of the same name produced by Canal+. In 2013, Campillo wrote, edited and directed his second film,
Eastern Boys, which won best film award in the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti sidebar, along with best film award at the Santa Barbara Festival. He co-wrote
The Workshop, the new film by Cantet which screened this year in Un Certain Regard, and sent a shockwave along the Croisette with his new feature,
120 BPM, which won the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes.