Corps étranger

As a child, Galatéa Bellugi joined Ariane Mnouchkine’s Théâtre du Soleil. In 2016, she starred alongside Kacey Mottet Klein in Guillaume Senez’s Keeper, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Premiers Plans. She then appeared in Xavier Giannoli’s L’Apparition (The Apparition), for which she received a nomination for Best Emerging Actress, followed by Eva Ionesco’s Une jeunesse dorée (Golden Youth), Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu’s Tralala, Carolina Cavalli’s Amanda and Jean-Baptiste Durand’s Chien de la casse (Junkyard Dog), which won the Audience Grand Prix at Premiers Plans. This film earned her a nomination for a César for Best Supporting Actress. In 2023, she appeared in Christine Dory’s La Fille d'Albino Rodrigue and Trȃn Anh Hùng’s La Passion de Dodin Bouffant (The Taste of Things), and the following year in Margherita Vicario’s Gloria! and Emmanuelle Belohradsky’s Elle & lui et le reste du monde (Her & Him and the Rest of the World). This year she will be appearing in Louise Hémon’s debut film L’Engloutie and Jérôme Bonnell’s new film Tout recommencera. 

Guslagie Malanda made her film debut playing the lead role in Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Mon amie Victoria. She returned to the screen in 2022 in Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, which won the Silver Lion at Venice and the César for Best First Film. She plays Fabienne Kabou, the young mother convicted of infanticide in 2017. For this role she was nominated for Lumières awards and for the César for Best Young Actress. In 2023 she appeared in Bertrand Bonello’s La Bête.

Hounhouénou Joël Lokossou was born in Benin and is an actor and director. He devoted himself entirely to the stage before arriving in France in 2000 with Franck Taponard's company “La fille du pêcheur”. Since then, he has had a number of theatrical adventures. He has made his mark on the contemporary stage with such powerful works as Jean Genet’s Les Nègres, Aimé Césaire’s Les Cahiers d’un retour au pays natal, László Krasznahorkai’s Une simple bande sèche étirée dans le bleu and Là où tu regardes. In recent years, he has directed Arrigo Boito’s Le Fou noir, Fernando Pessoa’s Le Pèlerin, Pascal Adam’s Poléon, and Compost, a performance conceived and performed by himself.