Revealed in 2007 in Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain, Hafsia Herzi took her first step in cinema as an actress. For her role, she won the Marcello Mastroianni prize at the Venice Film Festival, the César for Best Promising Actress in 2008, and many other performance prizes all over the world. In 2010, she directed The Rodba, her first short movie. You Deserve a Lover, her first self-produced feature film, was selected for the 58th International Critics’ Week.