Jury 2023

FEATURE FILM JURY

Zabou Breitman - Presidente

Zabou Breitman has been immersed in theater and cinema since her childhood. She studies cinema, then attends Simon's Course before running away. After a brief stint on television in the 80s, she began her film career in Elle voit des nains partout! She then collaborated with great French filmmakers such as Diane Kurys, Henri Verneuil, Philippe Lioret, Pierre Jolivet, Michel Deville, Pierre Schoeller and Nicolas Bedos. While she continued her acting career on stage and on screen, she directed various plays for the theater and directed in 2001 her first feature film Beautiful Memories which received the César for Best First Feature Film. Then will follow The Man of my Life, Someone I Loved, No and Me, Paris etc. as well as The Swallows of Kabul released in theaters last year (Un Certain Regard selection 2019).

Amine Bouhafa

Based on a solid classical training and drawing his inspiration from all musical trends, the Franco-Tunisian composer Amine Bouhafa develops a very personal style playing with clichés of Orientalism. Rewarded in 2014 by a César for the music of the film Timbuktu, he has since signed a number of scores for demanding films such as Beauty and the Dogs (Prize for Best Sound Creation - Un Certain Regard), Un Fils or You Will Die at 20 (Award for Best Original Music at the Odessa Festival 2020). Amine Bouhafa is featured in Gagarine (Best Original Music Award of the FIFB 2020 and the Rome Film Festival), and The Man Who Sold His Skin. He is currently working on the animated film The Summit of the Gods by Patrick Imbert.

Sophie Letourneur 

After studying at the École Duperré in Textile Arts and Printing, then at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs - where she made experimental videos, installations, and documentaries - Sophie Letourneur directed her first short film La tête dans le vide in 2004, which won numerous awards, then two medium-length films that were released in theatres: Manue bolonaise (2005) and Roc et canyon (2007). This was followed by Chicks (2010), then The Shady Sailor (2011) which she presented at the Locarno festival - where she took the opportunity to shoot Les coquillettes (2012) - and in which she also acted. She then directed her third feature film Gaby baby doll (2014) then Enormous released this year with Jonathan Cohen and Marina Foïs in the cast.

Vincent Macaigne 

A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris, Vincent Macaigne went to the stage very early and multiplied his free adaptations of the great classics, for which he made a name for himself. In 2001, he appeared for the first time on the big screen in Replay de Catherine Corsini. From short films to feature films, he intensified his collaborations and played in films by Guillaume Brac, Bertrand Bonello and Vincent Mariette. In 2013, he is revealed at the Cannes Film Festival notably thanks to his appearances in Age of Panic, 2 Autumns 3 Winters and The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu for which he will be nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor. In 2017, he directs his first feature film Comfort and Consolation in France.

Nicolas Maury

A graduate of the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique de Paris, Nicolas Maury works on stage with great directors. Accustomed to auteur cinema, he shoots under the direction of Patrice Chéreau, Philippe Garrel, Olivier Assayas, Rebecca Zlotowski, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Riad Sattouf and Pascal Bonitzer. Mikael Buch gave him the lead role in his burlesque comedy Let my people go!, which earned him a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor. Yann Gonzalez gave him a role in You and the Night and Knife+Heart. It was with the role of Hervé André-Jezak in the series Call my agent! that he became known to the general public. His first feature film My Best Part was released in October 2020.

SHORT FILM JURY

Guillaume Senez - President

Guillaume Senez was born in Brussels in 1978. He is the author of several short films, selected in numerous festivals: La Quadrature du Cercle (2005), Dans nos veines (2009), selected in Cannes for the Unifrance Prize for Best Short Film, U.H.T. (2012), nominated for the Magritte of Belgian cinema, and Walk with Kings (2020). In 2016 he released his first feature film Keeper. The film was selected in more than 70 festivals around the world (Toronto, Locarno, Rotterdam, Angers - Grand Jury Prize) and received more than twenty prizes including 3 Magritte awards. His second feature film Our Struggles was selected for the Critics' Week of Cannes in 2018. The film won five Magritte awards in 2019 (including Best Fim and Best Director).

Noée Abita

Noée Abita, 20 years old, was revealed by Ava first feature film by Léa Mysius presented in Cannes at the Critics' Week. She was nominated for the 2018 César Revelations for her performance. The same year, she played the role of the daughter of Jean-Hugues Anglade in Sink or Swim by Gilles Lellouche which was screened Out of Competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. She once again took on a leading role in Genesis by Philippe Lesage, selected in international competition at the Locarno International Film Festival. She plays alongside Vincent Lacoste in My Days of Glory directed by Antoine de Bary and then with Laetitia Casta in the Apnea series by Julien Trousselier, in which she stars. Slalom, Charlène Favier's first feature film with Jérémie Renier was released in 2020.

Stéphanie Carreras

Stéphanie Carreras makes her debut as a producer at Lazennec Tout Court. She switched to feature films with Marock by Laila Marrakchi, then created her company Estrella Productions with Philippe Pujo. They produced: On air by Pierre Pinaud, Rock the Casbah by Laïla Marrakchi, Dumped by Eloïse Lang and soon coming out, The Rose Maker by Pierre Pinaud. Always on the lookout for new talent, they have just co-produced with Eleanor Coleman the animated short Navozande, the Musician of Reza Riahi, enjoying a successful festival career.

Charlène Favier

A self-taught director, screenwriter and producer, Charlène Favier is an explorer. She grew up between Val d'Isère and Bourg-en-Bresse and now lives between Paris and Marseille. As a child, sport, travel and art in all its forms inhabited her and it was in 2007 in Australia that she made her first documentary. She studied acting at the Jacques Lecoq school in London and acting direction at the Astoria studio in New York. In 2020, her short film Odol gorri is selected for the César Awards and then Slalom, her first feature film, is announced in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, starring Noée Abita and Jérémie Renier.

Grégory Fitoussi

Always been passionate by the acting profession, Grégory Fitoussi quickly went through castings and landed a role in 2001 in the series Méditerranée. After having played in many fictions, he obtains a lead role in the series Engrenages. In parallel, he began his international career in Stephen Sommers' blockbuster Rise of the Cobra and played in the series Mr Selfbridge. He also starred in Xavier Durringer's The Conquest (selected at Cannes in 2011), Une nuit by Philippe Lefevre and Big is Beautiful by Charlotte de Turkheim, then in 2013 in World War Z alongside Brad Pitt. Lately, he has appeared in Le bureau des légendes, Beecham house by Gurinder Chadha and La garçonne with Laura Smet.