Erick Zonca

{{Short description|French film director}}

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| birth_place = Orléans, France

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

| years_active = 1993–present

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Érick Zonca is a French film director and screenwriter.

His first films were shorts Rives (1992), Eternelles (1995), and Seule (1997).

Zonca is best known for his critically acclaimed and award-winning 1998 feature film debut The Dreamlife of Angels. The film won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4905/year/1998.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The Dreamlife of Angels |access-date=2009-10-01|work=festival-cannes.com}}Élisabeth Busser, Gilles Cohen -Comptes de la Vie Ordinaire 1998 p88 "Prix d'interprétation féminine : attribué ex-aequo à Élodie Bouchez et Natacha Régnier pour leurs rôles dans La Vie rêvée des anges d'Éric Zonca"

Zonca's second feature was Le Petit Voleur (The Little Thief) (1999).{{Cite AV media |url=https://mubi.com/en/it/films/le-petit-voleur |title=Le petit voleur (1999) {{!}} MUBI |language=en |access-date=2025-05-26 |via=mubi.com}}

His film Julia (2008) is based on John Cassavetes' 1980 film Gloria. It stars Tilda Swinton and was shot in California and Mexico.

White Soldier, a TV movie, was released in 2014. Zonca also made a French road safety PSA dramatic short film in 2015. In 2018, he directed Black Tide, starring Vincent Cassel.