Romain Gavras is the boyfriend of popular singer, Dua Lipa. He is a French film and music video director who has numerous music videos and movie credits to his name.
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They were first spotted together in February, leaving a party. Their second appearance in public was when they were spotted holding hands during Paris Fashion Week.
Born on July 4, 1981, Romain Gavras is the son of popular French entertainment industry players; Costa Gavras and Michele Ray. He has two other siblings named Julie Gavras and Alexandre Gavras.
He started his career in 1995 when he co-founded the film collective Kourtrajme with Kim Chapiron and Toumani Sangare. He is also known for directing several popular music videos including Bad Girls by M.I.A, No Church in the Wild by Kanye West, Stress and Born Free by M.I.A.
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Gavras produced and directed his debut film in 2001, a short film titled The Funk Hunt. In 2002, he directed two other short films, La Barbichette and Easy Pizza Riderz.
He took a short break from movie directing for a couple of years and returned in 2008. However, he directed a few music videos during that period. Some of them include Changer le Monde (2002) by Roce, Repaint the Picture (2002) by Don Martin, Pour Ceux (2003) by Mafia K1, Y’en a des biens (2004) by Didier Super, Trankeliment by Fatal Bazooka, I Believe by Simian Mobile Disco, Signature by DJ Mehdi, all in 2007.
In 2008, Gavras returned to the movie industry with a short film titled Les Mathematiques du Roi Heenok and a documentary dubbed A Cross the Universe – which was nominated for CPH: DOX Sound & Vision Award.
He bagged three award nominations for his 2010 movie Our Day Will Come (Notre jour viendra) – CPH PIX: New Talent Grand Pix, SXSW Film Festival Audience Award, Off Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema: Krakow Film Award.
In 2022, Gavra produced and directed one of his most popular movies, if not the most popular, Athena, which got nominated for the 2022 Golden Lion Award.
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