TALENTS AT THE FESTIVAL

More than 370 French writers, directors, composers, producers, directors of photography, music supervisors & editors have presented their film(s) at the festival. Among them are (2025 talents in bold):

Sou Abadi * Lise Akoka * Patrick Alessandrin * Eric Altmayer * Nicolas Altmayer * Marine Alaric * Jean-Philippe Amar * Alexandre Amiel * Shirel Amitay * Jean-Pierre Améris * Thomas Anargyros * Natasha Andrews * Yves Angelo * Cédric Anger * Christine Angot * Academy Award Winner® Jean-Jacques Annaud * Sophie Ansel * Olivier Assayas * Alain Attal * David Atrakchi * Academy Award Winner® Jacques Audiard * Sébastien Azzopardi * Toufik Ayadi * Lisa Azuelos * Josiane Balasko * Enya Baroux * Nicolas Bary * Eric Barbier * Delphine Baril * Modi Barry * Maurice Barthelémy * Hugo Becker * Laurent Bécue-Renard * Nicolas Bedos * Wassim Béji * Frédéric Beigbeder * Alexandru Belc * Academy Award nominee® Véra Belmont * Lucas Belvaux * Nicolas Benamou * Samuel Benchetrit * Anne Berest * Bibo Bergeron * Alain Berliner * Jean-Michel Bernard * Ludovic Bernard * Richard Berry * Priscilla Bertin * Dominique Besnehard * Rémi Bezancon * Alain-Michel Blanc * Academy Award® winner Bertrand Blier * Romane Bohringer * Pascal Bonitzer * Anissa Bonnefont * André Bonzel * Dany Boon * Laurent Bouhnik * Amine Bouhafa * Alexandre Bougja * Michel Boujenah * Ludovic Boukherma * Zoran Boukherma * Nicolas Boukhrief * Jean Bréhat * Zabou Breitman * Romain Brémond * Chantal Briet * Stéphane Brizé *  Claire Burger * Gael Cabouat * José Caltagirone * Academy Award® winner – Camille – * Jean-François Camilleri *  Guillaume Canet * Laurent Cantet * Academy Award® nominee Philippe Carcassonne * Vincent Maël Cardona * Academy Award® nominee Christian Carion *  Stanislas Carré de Malberg * Anna Cazenave Cambet  * Amaury Chabauty * Benjamin Charbit * Patrice Chéreau * Hélier Cisterne * Academy Award® nominee Jérémy Clapin * Julien Colonna* Etienne Comar * Fabio Conversi * Alain Corneau * Clovis Cornillac * Academy Award® winner Costa-Gavras * Robin Couderc (ROB) * Antoine de Caunes *  Olivier Dahan * Yves Darondeau * Thierry de Clermont-Tonnerre * Alexandre de La Patellière * Academy Award® winner Jean-Xavier de Lestrade * Gilles de Maistres * Charles de Meaux * Alix Delaporte * Matthieu Delaporte * Raphaëlle Delauche * Maxime Delauney * Bénédicte Delmas * Academy Award® nominee Julie Delpy * Mathieu Demy * Ahmed Dendane * Claire Denis * Dante Desarthes * Academy Awards® winner Alexandre Desplat * Arnaud Desplechin * Céline Devaux * Cyril Dion * Elsa Diringer * Vanessa Djian * Valérie Donzelli * Maïmouna Doucouré * Academy Award nominee® Ziad Doueiri * Academy Award® winner Clément Ducol * Marielle Duigou * Bruno Dumont * Albert Dupontel * Pierre-Marie Dru * Annette Dutertre * Pascal Elbé *  Mareike Engelhardt* Charlotte Erlih * Nicolas Errera * Bertrand Faivre * Léa Fehner * Jacques Fieschi * Marc Fiszman * Marc Fitoussi * Marine Flores-Ruimi * Anne Fontaine * Simon Francois * Claire Franzoni * Charlotte Gabris * Nicole Garcia* Fabrice Garçon * Marie Garel-Weiss * Pierre Garnier * Romain Gavras * Olivier Gauriat * Marielle Gautier * Hugo Gélin * Xavier Gens * Gregoire Gensollen * Michael Gentile * Academy Award® nominee Charles Gilibert * Jean-Benoît Gillig * Thomas Gilou * Hélène Giraud * Alain Goldman * Sylvain Goldberg *  Yann Gozlan * Elie Grappe * Remy Grumbach * Robert Guédiguian * Boulem Guerdjou *  Samir Guesmi * Eric Guirado * Sylvain Goldberg * Samuel Hadida * Philippe Haïm * Michèle Halberstadt  * Stéphanie Halfon * Mohamed Hamidi * Academy Award® winner Michel Hazanavicius * Jeanne Herry * David Hertzog Dessites * Eva Husson * Cédric Ido * Patrick Imbert * Audrey Ismael* Salah Issaad * Taqiyeddine Issaad * Martin Jauvat * Baya Kasmi * Mathieu Kassovitz * Cédric Klapisch * Thierry Klifa * Diane Kurys * Christophe La Pinta * Philippe Lacheau * Antoine Lafon* Carole lambert * Mathieu Lamboley * Jean-Marie Larrieu * Mélanie Laurent * Eric Lavaine * Philippe Le Guay * Nolwenn Lemesle * Anne Le Ny * Pierre-Ange Le Pogam * Vincent Leclerq * Xavier Legrand * Academy Award® winner Claude Lelouch * Sarah Lelouch * Bruno Lévy * Dan Levy * Lorraine Levy * Fanny Liatard * Alexandre Lier * Jean-Albert Lièvre * Philippe Lioret * Pauline Loquès  * Marceline Loridan-Ivens * Alfred Lot * Alex Lutz * Academy Award® nominee Ladj Ly * Nawell Madani * Julien Madon * Maïwenn * Delphine Malausséna * Tony Marshall * Héloïse Martin * Philippe Martin * Marie Masmonteil * Lionel Massol * Nicolas Maury * Wilfried Méance * Mounia Meddour * Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar * Boris Mendza * Hélène Merlin * Eric Metayer * Alexis Michalik * Simon Michaël * Anastasia Mikova * Claude Miller * Radu Mihaileanu * Gilles Mimouni * Clément Miserez * Edouard Montoute * Emmanuel Mouret * Yvonnick Muller * Olivier Nakache * Elodie Namer * Eric Neveux * Jacques Nolot * Sylvain Ohrel * Kevin Ossona* Anna Novion * Raphael Perchet * Valérie Perrin * Jean-Claude Petit * Pitof * Gilles Penso * Laurent Perez Del Mar * Jean-Claude Petit * Olivier Peyon * Gérard Pirès * Maxime Pistorio * Alexandre Poncet * Miléna Poylo * Daniel Preljocaj * Cédric Prévost *  Katell Quillévéré * Lola Quivoron * Nils Rahou * Academy Award® nominee Jean-Paul Rappeneau * Dimitri Rassam * Jérôme Rebotier * Jean-Francois Richet * Agathe Riedinger * Régis Roinsard * Brigitte Roüan * Julie Roué * Régis Roinsard * Romain Rousseau * Guillaume Roussel * Gilles Sacuto * Ardavan Safaee * Yannick Saillet * Jean-Paul Salomé * Pierre Salvadori * Nicolas Sanfaute * Charlotte Sanson * Vanessa Schneider * Academy Award® winner Pierre Schoendoerffer * Ken Scott * Coline Serreau * Morgan Simon * Florent Emilio Siri * Eduardo Sosa Soria * Jerome Schwab * Thomas Szabo * Aaron Thomas* Hugo P. Thomas * Gilles Taurand * Academy Award® nominee Bertrand Tavernier * Anaïs Tellenne * Pascal Tessaud * Thierry Teston * Chloé Thévenin * Doria Tillier * Laurent Tirard * Academy Award® nominee Danièle Thompson * Eric Tolédano * Anne-Dominique Toussaint * Jérémy Trouilh * Guillaume Tunzini * Sabrina Van Tassel * Pascal Vaguesly * Francis Veber * Jean Veber * Cathy Verney * Sandrine Veysset * Grégoire Vigneron * Christian Vincent * Luc Walpoth * Myriam Weil * Nicolas Weil * Laurent Zeitoun * Roschdy Zem * Yann Zenou * Rebecca Zlotowski * Yohann Zveig * Erick Zonca.

Many other celebrities attended the festival including (2025 talents in bold):

George Aguilar * Daphne Albert * Sveva Alviti * Carole Amiel * Jon Amiel * Nora Arnezeder * David Arquette * Rosanna Arquette * Julien Arruti * Jon Avnet * Academy Award® winner Roger Avary * Anthony Azizi * Jamie Babitt * Matt Bastard * Nathalie Baye * Edouard Baer * Anthony Bajon * Michael Barker * Mat Bastard *  Academy Awards® winner Sean Becker * Academy Award® nominee Bérenice Bejo * Victoire Bélézy * Academy Award® nominee Annette Bening * Dali Benssalah * Academy Award® winner Halle Berry * Jacqueline Bisset * Damien Bonnard* Élodie Bouchez * Academy Awards® nominee Rachid Bouchareb * Tarek Boudali * Didier Bourdon * JR Bourne * Anne Brochet * Aline Brosh McKenna * Patrick Bruel * Antonia Buresi * Isabelle Candelier * Gilbert Cates * Academy Award® winner George Chakiris * Jeremiah Chechik * Sanda Codreanu * Charles Cohen * Charly Clovis * Gloria Colston * Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard * Clotilde Coureau * Wes Craven * Audrey Dana * Joe Dante * Jean-Pierre Darroussin * Alice David * Lou de Laâge * Christophe Dechavanne* Academy Award® nominee Laura Dern * Zoey Deutch * Dida Diafat * Paul Dichter * Jeremy Doner * Bill Duke * Aubry Dullin * Quentin Dupieux * Romain Duris * Eric Elmosnino * Gad Elmaleh * Academy Award® nominee Deniz Gamze Ergüven *  Nadia Farès * Carrie Fisher * Academy Award® nominee Robert Forster * Academy Awards® winner Jodie Foster * John Frankenheimer * Jennifer E. Gardner * Academy Award® nominee Karla Sofía Gascón* Dorothée Gilbert * Ana Girardot * Lesli Linka Glatter * Dan Glickman * Judith Godrèche * Academy Award® nominee Samuel Goldwyn Jr * Selena Gomez * Tracy Gotoas * Carl Gotlieb * Alex Goude * Vanessa Guide * Academy Award® winner Taylor Hackford * Johnny Hallyday * Laeticia Hallyday * Zita Hanrot * Academy Award® winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck * Academy Award® winner Herbie Hancock * Academy Award® nominee Arthur Hiller * Chloé Hollings * Stephen Hopkins * Academy Award® nominee Isabelle Huppert * Jacky Ido * * Academy Award nominee® Jim Jarmush * Jean-Michel Jarre * Jimmy Jean-Louis * Camelia Jordana * Jeremy Kagan * Lawrence Kasdan * Douglas Kennedy * Irvin Kerschner * Malou Khebizi * Aja Naomi King * Nastassja Kinski * Randal Kleiser * Vicky Krieps * Diane Kruger * Karyn Kusama * Vincent Lacoste * Jérémie Laheurte * Alexandra Lamy * Alexia Landeau * John Landis * Michèle Laroque *  Xavier Lemaître *  Academy Award® winner Michel Legrand *  Karim Leklou * Avi Lerner * Jalil Lespert * Gong Li * Academy Award® nominee Richard Linklater * Richard Lorber * Ibrahim Maalouf * Leonard Maltin * Academy Award® nominee Michael Mann * Guillaume Marbeck *  Margo Martindale  * Olivier Martinez * Jeanne Mas * Holt McCallany * Nadia Melliti * Kad Merad * Academy Award® nominee Nancy Meyer * Patrick Mille * Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren * Gregory Montel * Academy Award nominee® Demi Moore * Jonathan Mostow * Kamal Moummad * Ornella Muti *  Pierre Niney * Academy Award® nominee Josh Olson * Vanessa Paradis * Robert Pattinson * Pablo Pauly * Academy Awards® winner Alexander Payne * Vincent Perez *  Nahuel Perez Biscayart * Ron Perlman * Daniel Petry Jr. * M. Pokora * Alice Pol * Romane Portail * Melvil Poupaud * Farida Raouadj * Narges Rashidi * Tania Raymonde * Camille Razat * Del Reisman *  Academy Awards nominee Jason Reitman *  Jérémie Renier * Charles Rivkin * Howard A. Rodman  * Jay Roewe * Daphne Roulier * Academy Award® nominee Gena Rowlands * Tygh Runyan * Academy Award® winner Zoe Saldaña * Karim Saleh * Ted Sarandos * John Savage * Helène Ségara * Academy Award® winner Lalo Schifrin * Elisabeth Shue * Academy Awards® winner Steven Soderbergh * Soko * Academy Award® nominee Sharon Stone * Timm Sharp  * Academy Awards® winner Robert Shaye * Dhruv Uday Singh * Academy Award® nominee Robin Swicord * Omar Sy * Raphael Thiery * Academy Award® winner Quentin Tarantino * Betty Thomas * Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron * Patrick Timsit * Academy Award® nominee Michael Tolkin * Daniel Toscan du Plantier * Serge Toubiana * Laura Truffaut * Bertrand Usclat * Academy Award® nominee Branda Vaccaro *  Jack Valenti * Fanny Valette* Capucine Valmary * Arnaud Valois* Sylvie Vartan *  Antonio Villaraigosa * Ruth Vital * Academy Award® winner Patrick Wachsberger * Carl Weathers * Matthew Weiner * Academy Awards® winner  Harvey Weinstein * Lambert Wilson * Academy Award® winner Chuck Workman * Michael York * Djebril Didier Zonga * Jerry Zucker * Academy Award® winner Edward Zwick * Elsa Zylberstein.