Greta Gerwig
Director, Script Writer, Actress

In just fifteen years, Greta Gerwig has made a name for herself in American and international cinema. Right from the start of her career as an actress, Greta Gerwig has also been involved as a screenwriter, collaborating on numerous projects. With her latest film, Barbie (2023), a worldwide cultural phenomenon and the biggest hit of the year, Greta Gerwig becomes the first director in the history of cinema to top the billion-dollar mark at the box office.

Ebru Ceylan
Script Writer, Photographer

Co-writer of the 2014 Palme d’or-winning Winter Sleep, Ebru Ceylan was born in Ankara. She began making photographs at an early age and participated in various solo and group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad.  She served as an actress and art director in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s early films like Distant (2002) and Climates (2006) ; and co-wrote Three Monkeys (Best Director Prize 2008), Once upon a time in Anatolia (Grand Prix 2011), Winter Sleep (Palme d’or 2014), The Wild Pear Tree (2018), and About Dry Grasses (2023) all selected at the Festival de Cannes.

Lily Gladstone
Actress

Lily Gladstone is from the Blackfeet and Nez Perce Tribal Nations. She is the first Native American to be Oscar nominated for Best Actress in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, premiered at the Festival de Cannes 2023, and she won the 2023 Golden Globe and the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Award for the same. She was named Best Actress of 2023 by the New York Film Critics Circle and The National Board of Review, among many others.

Eva Green
Actress

World-renowned actress, Eva Green first appeared in plays as Turcaret et Jalousie en trois fax (2002) for which she was nominated for Les Molières, before going on the silver screen in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Innocents: The Dreamers (2003). She alternates between Hollywood productions : Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2004), Casino Royale (2006), 300: The Birth of an Empire (2014), Sin City: I Killed for Her (2014) and independent cinema David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense (2011), Gregg Araki’s White Bird (2014), Alice Winocour’s Proxima (2019).

Nadine Labaki
Director, Script Writer

Awarded the Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes 2018 with her powerful film Capernaum, also nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Nadine Labaki has been weaving a story with the Festival for many years. After signing award-winning commercials and music videos, she took part in the Résidence de la Cinéfondation of the Festival de Cannes in 2004 to write and develop Caramel, her first feature film, a joyfully impertinent ode to female solidarity and the biggest success of Lebanese cinema abroad.

Juan Antonio Bayona
Director, Script Writer, Producer

Juan Antonio Bayona has established himself as one of Spain’s most acclaimed filmmakers, resonating with audiences and critics all over the world. His debut film, The Orphanage, premiered at la Semaine de la Critique in 2007 where it received a standing ovation. In 2012, he directed The Impossible, which won five Goya Awards, including Best Director, and was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe awards in the category of Best Actress for Naomi Watts

Pierfranceso Favino
Actor

The most prominent Italian actor of his generation, Pierfrancesco Favino has gained recognition with Gabriele Muccino’s debut hit The Last Kiss (2001). Awarded for his performance in Michele Placido’s Romanzo Criminale (2005), he pursued a parallel career in Hollywood with Ron Howard’s Angels and Demons and Rush, Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna and Marc Foster’s World War Z. In 2018, he played the role of Tommaso Buscetta in Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, presented in Competition at the Festival de Cannes 2019, and returns in 2022 with Mario Martone’s Nostalgia, also in Competition

Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Director

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kore-eda Hirokazu graduated from Waseda University in 1987. He started directing several prize-winning documentary programs for television. His directorial debuts, Maborosi (1995) and After Life (1998) brought him international acclaim. His films were selected at the Festival de Cannes including Distance (2001), Nobody Knows (Best Actor Award, 2004), Air Doll (2009), Like Father, Like Son (Jury Prize, 2013), Our little Sister (2015) and After the Storm (2016). In 2018, Shoplifters won the Palme d’or at the 71st Festival de Cannes as well as being nominated for the 91st Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Omar Sy
Actor, Producer

Winner of the César for Best Actor in Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache’s The Intouchables (2011), Omar Sy has distinguished himself in all genres: Tellement proches (2009), Samba (2014) by Toledano & Nakache, Micmacs (2009) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Mood Indigo (2013) by Michel Gondry, Chocolat (2016) by Roschdy Zem, Yao (2019) by Philippe Godeau, The Lost Prince (2020) by Michel Hazanavicius. Also internationally: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Jurassic World (2015-2022), Ron Howard’s Inferno (2016). In 2022, he starred in Mathieu Vadepied’s Father & Soldier, the opening film of the Un Certain Regard section at the Festival de Cannes