2025

A graduate of London's Metropolitan Film School, Nyima Cartier directed White Lie in England, adapted from her graduation script. On her return to France, she made the short film Nako (Best Fiction at Bogoshorts, selected in Palm Springs, Hamptons, Uppsala, etc.). In 2021 she directed two short films produced by Mabel Films, Le Lac (Paris Court Devant, Sarasota...) and L'Homme silencieux (Prix Qualité du CNC, selected for the César Awards 2022, Diff Canal+). She is currently working on her first feature film, Chien noir, co-written with Samuel Doux and produced by Mabel Films in co-production with 2.4.7. Films. 
Synopsis: Claire is barely 30 and works in a start-up set up by two ambitious young men, Arthur and Benjamin. While they are celebrating their first round of funding, Benjamin sexually assaults Claire. The young woman collapses, is never heard from again and stays at home, stunned. Until she meets a mysterious dog, a new companion who will give her the strength to stand up to her attacker.

Mathilde Elu studied economics in Canada before becoming a Swiss Army knife for the cinema. She directed her 1st short film, Brazil, a thriller about pubic hair that made the festival circuit. She has written a series, Tartine, and is currently making her animated film Face to fèces. Her first feature film, Une de perdue, une de perdue, developed at the Atelier Scénario at La Fémis, is currently in development.
Synopsis: Camille falls in love too quickly, scaring off all the girls she meets. She should be taking her time, but the timing isn't right: in three weeks' time, her friends are getting married, and there's no way she's going to be the only one there. So she decides to ride her tandem bike from Nantes to Crozon, determined to find a chick along the way, in a hurry and as creepy as ever! With the biological clock ticking and global warming, the pressure is on.

Valentine Lapière is a Belgian actress and director. She graduated from the IAD in 2009 with a degree in dramatic interpretation. A true jack-of-all-trades, she acts, assists, writes and directs. As far as cinema is concerned, she has learnt a lot and experimented mainly through short films. After co-writing Petits pas in 2015, she moved on to directing with the short films Aube in 2019 and Je suis rentrée in 2023. She is currently developing her first feature film, Passer l'hiver, co-written with Judith Perrin.
Synopsis: Sandra, a 37-year-old single mother, is fighting to regain custody of her foster children. A few months earlier, she had no choice but to abandon them. Haunted by remorse but driven by immense love, Sandra is prepared to do anything to make amends. But the harshness of the legal system and the precariousness of her daily life soon leave Sandra reeling. 

After completing a degree in performing arts at Paris 8, Kahina Le Querrec joined Claude Lelouch's Ateliers du Cinéma. There she directed L'Heure bleue and Contre la nuit, produced by G.R.E.C. In 2022, she directed Les Artifices, produced by Amethyste Films and selected in Brest, before entering the script workshop at La Fémis. Since then, she has been developing her first feature film, La Faille, co-written with Maïté Sonnet, winner of the CNC writing grant and co-writer for directors including Cédric Kahn. 
Synopsis: At the end of August, Maria has just turned eighteen and has to leave the home that has looked after her until now. All she can think of is how to get back to her mother, whom she hasn't seen since she was eight. She only knows two things about her mother: she's a cleaner in a luxury hotel and she lives in Biarritz. Alone for the first time, she sets off to find her mother. 

Born in Paris, Paul Vincent de Lestrade trained as a filmmaker between his native city and Brussels, where he now lives. Based on the expressiveness of the body, his films feature characters grappling with an obsessive dilemma that they must resolve if they are to emancipate themselves from a world that traps them, as demonstrated by Un bon garçon, his first professional short film, which won the Audience Award at Premiers Plans in 2024. He is currently developing Helter Skelter, his first feature film project.
Synopsis: Eva, 14, has been brought up in a radical nationalist extremist group by a single father who has taught her everything and whom she admires more than anything. Until death comes into her life. 

Actor, director and producer Thierry de Peretti was born in Ajaccio. He has directed plays by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Grégory Motton and Don DeLillo at the Théâtre de la Bastille, the Comédie-Française and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. His acting credits include Le Silence by Orso Miret, Yves Saint-Laurent by Bertrand Bonello, Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train by Patrice Chéreau and Moi qui t'aimais by Diane Kurys. Les Apaches, selected for the Directors' Fortnight (Cannes 2013), is his first feature film. Une vie violente, his second film, was selected for Critics' Week (Cannes 2017). Lutte jeunesse (Youth Struggle), a feature-length documentary, was shown at the FID Marseille in 2017, and in 2022 his third feature, Enquête sur un scandale d'État (Investigation into a State Scandal), was released. It was selected for the San Sebastián festival in 2021, where it won the Best Image prize. À son image, his fourth feature, was selected for the Quinzaine des Cinéastes at Cannes in 2024.

A graduate in audiovisual arts from the KASK Conservatorium, Lukas Dhont has won numerous awards for his short films Corps perdu and L'Infini. Throughout his studies, he focused on fiction, but also studied the possibilities of documentary. In 2016, he took part in the Ateliers d'Angers with his first feature film project, Girl. In 2018, the film was presented at Cannes as part of the Un Certain Regard selection, where it won the Caméra d'or for Best First Film, the Queer Palm and an acting prize for its young actor, Victor Polster. Critically acclaimed, the film was an international success, winning numerous awards (Lumière for best French-language film, two Magritte awards, etc.). In May 2022, his second feature, Close, was selected for official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize. This success confirms the young Belgian filmmaker as a rising star on the European cinema scene. He was a member of the jury at Angers in 2020. 

After studying production at La Fémis, Guillaume Brac directed and produced Un monde sans femmes (A World Without Women) in 2011, a medium-length film that received multiple awards and was successfully released in cinemas. In 2013, Tonnerre, presented in competition at Locarno, ventured onto the shores of film noir. Enjoying the freedom to juggle genres and formats, he alternates between short and feature films, fiction and documentary. In 2018, he won the Prix Jean Vigo for Contes de juillet, a film that grew out of a workshop with young actors. This was followed by a feature-length documentary, L'Île au trésor, and a comedy about youth, À l'abordage, which was selected for the Berlin Festival.
In 2023, he directed Un pincement au cœur, the first part of a documentary diptych on high-school friendships, which was extended by his latest feature Ce n'est qu'un au revoir, presented at ACID in Cannes in 2024. Guillaume Brac is no stranger to the Premiers Plans Festival, where he has presented several of his films, and took part in the Ateliers d'Angers in 2007. 

With a solid academic background in political science, Fanny Burdino joined the screenwriting workshop at La Fémis in 2006. Now a screenwriter, she has written films for Cédric Kahn, Laurent Cantet, Arnaud Desplechin, Clément Cogitore, Antoine Barraud and Guillaume Gouix, among others. She is also involved in creating and writing series - including the first series for HBO Max, Une amie dévouée, directed by Just Philippot. She has also taught at university, where she defended her doctoral thesis on Ingmar Bergman in 2017.

Born in Casablanca, Amine Berrada discovered his passion for cinema through the works of Kubrick, Kurosawa and Scorsese. He studied cinema in Paris, graduating from La Fémis in 2013 with a degree in cinematography. He has worked on a number of award-winning films, including Banel e Adama by Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Official Selection at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival) and Les Meutes by Kamal Lazraq (Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival). He recently designed the image for Vladimir de Fontenay's film Sukkwan Island. Renowned for his ability to adapt to different styles, in 2021 he won the Best Photography prize at the Namur Festival for Astel.

After growing up between the mainland and the village, like many children from the Corsican diaspora, Julie Allione entered the Paris VII university in 1998, where the first gender studies were taught. In 2001, she missed Corsica and left Paris to become a casting director in Bastia. As a casting director, she has worked with Thierry de Peretti, Rebecca Zlotowski, Rachel Lang, Louis Garel, Stéphane Demoustier, Catherine Corsini, Samuel Theis and Maïwenn, among others.

Delphine Malaussena's musical universe is influenced by her passion for mathematics and quantum mechanics, disciplines in which she has a master's degree. A graduate of ENS Louis Lumière, she first worked as a sound engineer on film sets before devoting herself fully to film music. Her musical work lies somewhere between instrumental and orchestral music, working on sound textures and electronic sounds.

In 2021, she won the OST Challenge, and composed the soundtracks for the feature films 5^e set by Quentin Reynaud and Moon 66 Questions by Jacqueline Lentzou, selected at the 2021 Berlinale in the Encounters category. In 2022, winner of the Berlinale Talents, she wrote the music for the feature films Chien de la casse by Jean-Baptiste Durand - which won the Audience Award at Premiers Plans in 2023, and for which she was nominated for the César for Best Film Music in 2024 - and En plein feu by Quentin Reynaud, for which she received the Best Film Music prize at the La Baule festival in 2023 and the Michel Legrand revelation prize. 

In 2023, she co-composed the music for Laroy by Shane Atkinson, which won the Grand Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival, and composed the original music for Hiver à Sokcho by Koya Kamura (Lectures de scénarios in 2023) and the series Insoupçonnable by Élie Wajeman. She won the Revelation of the Year award at the 2023 Les Arcs festival. 

In 2024, Delphine Malaussena wrote the original music for Cassandre by Hélène Merlin and Oxana by Charlène Favier. She is currently composing the music for the film Le Roi Soleil by Vincent Cardona and the HBO series Merteuil directed by Jessica Palud.

Osmosis is the principle that guides Wissam Hojeij in composing film music, based on his dozen years of experience. ‘The ideal relationship is an open collaboration with the filmmakers, at the service of the films, and where I can leave my mark,’ he says. A touch synonymous with eclecticism, high standards and discovery, reflecting his spontaneous yet surprising career path. 

Franco-Lebanese, speaking four languages, Wissam Hojeij is naturally international and open to a wide variety of perspectives and collaborations. On Sofía Quirós Ubeda's Costa Rican feature Ceniza Negra (Cannes Film Festival, Critics' Week 2019), he weaves an unexpected score for a Latin American film, wrapping himself in sounds in tune with his heroine's passion for the Orient. For Moroccan director Hicham Lasri's Headbang Lullaby (Berlinale, Panorama section 2017), he composed an extravagant psychedelic score that contrasts with its North African roots and marks out the film's whimsical universe. In 2018, Wissam Hojeij was selected for the prestigious Berlinale Talent scheme before in turn actively contributing his expertise outside the studio: he was invited by Sacem and the French Institute to give a masterclass at the Pavillon des Cinémas du Monde at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 and was musical consultant for the Semaine de la Critique's Next Step workshop.

In 2024, he composed the music for two feature films: El Ladrón de Perros by Vinko Tomičić, selected in international competition at the Tribeca Festival and at Biarritz Amérique Latine, and Mi bestia by Camila Beltrán, selected at the ACID of the Cannes Festival 2024.

Frédéric Jouve is producer and head of the production company Les Films Velvet, which has already made over fifteen feature films, some of which have been selected for the biggest film festivals. He has worked with director Rebecca Zlotowski since her debut with Belle épine (Critics' Week, 2010), followed by Grand Central (Un Certain Regard 2013), Planétarium (Venice Film Festival 2016) and Les Enfants des autres (Venice Film Festival 2022). He also produced Thierry de Peretti's films Une vie violente (Critics' Week 2017), Enquête sur un scandale d'État (San Sebastián 2022) and À son image (Quinzaine des Cinéastes 2024). Committed to discovering young talent, he is the producer of the first film Les Pires by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, which won the Grand Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2022.