Judith Auffray was born in Paris in 1993. She studied painting and drawing at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon then cinema at HEAD-Geneva. Her first feature film, A house (2020), shown in several festivals (such as Cinéma du réel, FID Marseille) and awarded at Ji.hlava IDFF and Bosifest, was released in cinemas in November 2021. She entered Le Fresnoy in 2020 where she made two films : 7:15-Blackbird (Cinéma du réel, Brive Film Festival, Côté Court) and Men of the night (San Sebastian IFF).