After having cut his teeth in the theatre as an assistant director, Fabien Gorgeart directed six short films between 2007 and 2016, all selected and awarded at numerous festivals and then broadcast on television, in France and abroad. In 2013, he won the Jury Prize at Clermont-Ferrand with Le Sens de l’orientation. In 2017, he directed his first feature film, Diane Has the Right Shape, in which Clotilde Hesme played the main role and which won the Jury Prize at the myfrenchfilmfestival. The Family is his second feature film.