Emmanuelle Nicot (born 18 November 1985) is a French film director and screenwriter.^[1] She is also a casting director, specialising in the recruitment of non-professional actors.^[2][3]

Emmanuelle Nicot was born on 18 November 1985 in Sedan, in the Ardennes department. She studied at the Institut des arts de diffusion [fr] in Belgium.^[1]

Nicot made her film debut in 2012 with her first short film Rae for which she won 15 awards.^[4]

In 2016, she presented À l'arraché, a short film which she made after immersing herself in an emergency reception center for adolescents in France.^[5] It was presented at more than 60 festivals, winning 17 awards.^[1][6]

In July 2021, she began filming on her feature-length debut Love According to Dalva (2023) in Charleville-Mézières, Reims and Sedan.^[7][8][9] The film, which tells the story of the rehabilitation of a 12-year-old victim of incest,^[10] was selected in the official competition of the Critics' Week section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize and Rail d'or.^[11][12][13]