
After studying literature, Delphine Agut studied Philosophy and Cinema at the Sorbonne. She began writing short films while working as a programmer for international film festivals. She co-wrote Sophie Letourneur’s La Vie au ranch, which was presented at the Festival de Cannes in 2011, then After the War by Annarita Zambrano, the screenplay for which was awarded the Jury Prize at the Screenplay Awards in 2016. The film was selected for Cannes the following year. Agut also works as a screenwriter for television, notably on seasons 4 and 5 of SKAM France (2020), as well as Le Signal series by François Uzan and produced by Gaumont for Paramount+, while continuing to develop feature film projects. Agut has also co-written Amjad Al Rasheed’s Inshallah A Boy, selected at the 2023 Cannes Semaine de la Critique, as well as Souleymane’s Story by Boris Lojkine which won the Jury Prize at the 2024 Festival de Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
