Anne Villacèque was born on April 30, 1963 in Toulouse. She graduated from the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris), studied Philosophy at the University Paris X in Nanterre and film direction at the Fémis film school (Ecole nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son) in Paris. In 1993, she directed her first short film, Nos vacances. –Berlinale