Graduated from France's most prestigious film school, IDHEC (renamed La fémis).
Graduated from L'IDHEC (La Fémis).
After initially working in television, he became assistant director to Marcel Ophuls for Veillées d'armes (1994), a documentary about the siege of Sarajevo.
His film Entre les murs (The Class) won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.
Laurent Cantet was a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter.