Alain Guiraudie

Director

French director and screenwriter Alain Guiraudie was born in 1964 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue. He gained international recognition with his thriller *Stranger by the Lake* (2013), for which he won the Best Director award in the Un Certain Regard section and the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. His works, which often explore themes of sexual desire and social class, are regularly screened at prestigious festivals, including *Staying Vertical* (2016) in competition at Cannes. His film *Nobody's Hero* (2022) opened the Panorama section of the Berlinale, while *Misericordia* premiered at Cannes in 2024.

Films on Sooner

Nobody's Hero

2022

100 mins

Drama, Comedy

Médéric just wants to love, but a new acquaintance and a terrorist attack turn his life into a crazy mess.