Iris Kaltenbäck
Director, ScreenwriterAbout
Iris Kaltenbäck grew up in France, with a French mother, Austrian father and American half-brother. After studying law and philosophy, she joined the screenplay department at La Fémis film school and assisted director Declan Donnellan at Théâtre Les Gémeaux. In 2015, she directed her first short, A Visit from the Stork, winner of the Next Generation International Audience Award at the Brussels Short Film Festival. Her first feature, The Rapture, which she co-wrote, starring Hafsia Herzi in the lead role, was selected for Critic’s Week in 2023, where it received the SACD Prize. Presented at numerous international festivals, it won several awards, including the Special Jury Prize in Turin. In 2024, The Rapture won the Lumières Award for Best First Film, then the Louis-Delluc Prize for Best First Feature and was nominated for the César Award for Best First Film.
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