Emmanuelle Nicot

Emmanuelle Nicot (born 18 November 1985) is a French film director and screenwriter. She is also a casting director, specialising in the recruitment of non-professional actors.

Early life
Emmanuelle Nicot was born on 18 November 1985 in Sedan, in the Ardennes department. She studied at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Belgium.

Career
Nicot made her film debut in 2012 with her first short film Rae for which she won 15 awards.

In 2016, she presented À l'arraché, a short film which she made after immersing herself in an emergency reception center for adolescents in France. It was presented at more than 60 festivals, winning 17 awards.

In July 2021, she began filming on her feature-length debut Love According to Dalva (2023) in Charleville-Mézières, Reims and Sedan. The film, which tells the story of the rehabilitation of a 12-year-old victim of incest, was selected in the official competition of the Critics' Week section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize and Rail d'or.