Delphine Girard is a Belgian film director. She is most noted for her 2018 short film '' A Sister (Une sœur)'', which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020. Born in Quebec, she moved to Belgium with her family in childhood, and studied film at

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. She directed the short films ''Monstre'' (2014) and ''Caverne'' (2017) prior to making ''A Sister''. Her feature debut, '' Through the Night (Quitter la nuit)'', premiered at the

80th Venice International Film Festival 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

, where Girard won the Audience Award for the

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program.Marta Bałaga
"'Radical and Courageous' Dark Comedy 'Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person,' 'Through the Night' Pick Up Venice Days Awards"
'' Variety'', 8 September 2023.

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