Director

Robin Campillo

Born August 16, 1962 in Mohammedia, Morocco5 films

Robin Campillo (French: [ʁɔbɛ̃ kɑ̃pijɔ]; born 16 August 1962; Mohammedia) is a French director, screenwriter and editor.

He is known for his work on films such as The Class (2008), Heading South (2005), the French zombie film They Came Back (2004), Eastern Boys (2013), and Time Out (2001), the latter of which was placed at ninety-nine on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s, number nine of The Guardian's Best Films of the noughties, and number eleven at The A.V. Club's top fifty films of the 2000s. In 2017, he released 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) which received mass acclaim and went on to garner many awards, including the Grand Prix and 2017 César Award for Best Film.

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First watchBPM (Beats per Minute)20177.7Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease.View film

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5 films as director

2025EnzoDirector
2023Red IslandDirector
2017BPM (Beats per Minute)Director
2013Eastern BoysDirector
2004The ReturnedDirector