Alain Bergala is a French film critic, essayist and director. Former editor-in-chief and collection director at Cahiers du cinema, he is the author of numerous books devoted to major figures of cinema, including Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, Ingmar Bergman, Abbas Kiarostami and Luis Buñuel. Alain Bergala has taught as a Senior Lecturer at Lyon 2, Rennes 2, Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, and as the director of the Film Analysis Department at Femis School in Paris. He has directed several films for cinema and television, including Faux-Fuyants (1983), Où que tu sois (1987), Pasolini la passion de Rome (2013) and film essays on Cesare Pavese, Fernand Léger, Jean Renoir and Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2017). He has curated the following exhibitions Correspondances : Kiarostami Erice (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007), Brune Blonde (Cinémathèque française, Paris, 2010), Pasolini Roma (Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Rome, 2013).