Morgane Dziurla-Petit

Born in France, Morgane Dziurla-Petit settled in Sweden in 2017 after studying film in Paris and Cannes. She has since written and directed three critically acclaimed shorts (Le Jour, Excess Will Save Us and Grab Them) and one feature film (Excess Will Save Us) standing at the border between fiction and documentary. Morgane is a Guldbagge (Swedish Academy) award winner. Her films have been screened at hundreds of festivals among which are Palm Springs, Clermont Ferrand, Hot Docs, MoMA's Doc Fortnight, Sarajevo, Sao Paulo,... She made one of the first short films using Deepface, in which a middle aged Swedish woman's search for love is complicated by the fact that she has the exact same face as Donald Trump. In 2022, Morgane's first feature film, Excess Will Save Us, premiered in Rotterdam where it won the Jury's Prize in the main competition.