
Person
Delphine Coulin
Writing · Born 1972-01-01 · Lorient, Morbihan, France
Biography
Delphine and Muriel Coulin are French sisters who form a directing duo. They are best known for their film 17 Girls. Muriel Coulin began work as a cinematographer and camera assistant throughout the 1990s. Delphine is also a novelist. The sisters began collaborating on films in 1997 with the short film Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux (a reference to Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus). The sisters made their feature film debut in 2011 with the film 17 Girls which was loosely based on the story of a group of American teenage girls who decided to become pregnant at the same time. The film played at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015 the sisters announced that their second film would be The Stopover, starring actress/singer Soko. The film premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. They jointly won the award for Best Screenplay from the Un Certain Regard jury. Source: Article "Delphine and Muriel Coulin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for

Samba
Novel

The Quiet Son
Screenplay

17 Girls
Director

Charlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden
Director

The Grapes of Wrath: The Ghost of Modern America
Self, writer

The Stopover
Screenplay
Filmography
- 2025The Quiet SonScreenplay
- 2022Charlotte Salomon: Life and the MaidenDirector
- 2019The Grapes of Wrath: The Ghost of Modern AmericaSelf, writer
- 2016The StopoverScreenplay
- 2014SambaNovel
- 201117 GirlsDirector
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