Marina de Van

Marina de Van (French: [də van]; born 8 February 1971)^[1][2] is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Marina de Van
Born	(1971-02-08) 8 February 1971 (age 54) France
Occupations	Film director, screenwriter, actress
Years active	1993–present

Her brother is Adrien de Van (fr), he appeared with her in the 1998 film Sitcom playing her brother.^[4] In her directing debut In My Skin in 2002, he played an intern. ^[5]

She studied in the directing department of La Fémis, from which she was graduated in 1997.^[6]

Selected filmography

• Bein Sous Tous Rapports (1996) (actress/writer/director)
• See the Sea (1997) (actress/writer)
• Sitcom (1998) (actress)
• Alias (1999) (writer/director)
• Psy Show (1999) (writer/director)
• 8 Women (2002) (writer)
• In My Skin (2002) (writer/director)
• Made in Paris (2006) (actress)
• La clef (2007) (actress)
• La promenade (2007) (actress/writer/director)
• Don't Look Back (2009) (writer/director)
• Hop-o'-My-Thumb (2011) (director/collaborating writer)
• Dark Touch (2012) (writer/director)
• My Nudity Means Nothing (2019) (actress/writer/director)
• Ozon: Remastered and Uncut (2022) (actress)
• The Black Widow (2023) (actress)

Further reading

• Tim Palmer "Don't Look Back: An Interview with Marina de Van," The French Review, 83:5, April 2010, pp. 96–103
• Tim Palmer, "Under Your Skin: Marina de Van and the Contemporary French Cinema du Corps,"Studies in French Cinema, 6:3, Fall 2006, pp. 171–181