Script readings 2025

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. 

After training at the École du Studio d'Asnières and the Cours Florent, Lomane de Dietrich joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique. In 2018, she starred in her first short film, L'Heure bleue, directed by Kahina Le Querrec. In 2019, she played in Emmanuelle Bercot's film De son vivant and Mathilde Chavanne's short film Simone est partie, both of which were selected for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. In 2020, she played the role of Louise in Le Bal des folles by Mélanie Laurent, and in 2021 that of Alex in the short film La Machine d'Alex directed by Mael Le Mée. In 2023, she will star in Catherine Corsini's film Le Retour, selected for official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2025 she will star in Léonor Serraille's new film. 

Jonas Bloquet made his debut in Joachim Lafosse’s Élève libre and then went on to play in Luc Besson’s Malavita and Guillaume Brac’s Tonnerre. In 2016, he played Isabelle Huppert’s son in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. For this film, he was nominated for a César for Best Young Actor. At the same time, he directed several short films at the Cité du Cinéma in Saint-Denis. He went on to star in Orphéline (Orphan) by Arnaud des Pallières, Valerian et la cité des mille planets (Valerian and the City of Thousand Planets) by Luc Besson, Les Fauves (Savage) by Vincent Mariette, Filles de joie (Working Girls) by Frédéric Fonteyne, Tirailleurs (Father and Soldier) by Mathieu Vadepied, La Nuit se traîne (Night Call) by Michiel Blanchard and this year in Les Filles du ciel by Bérangère McNeese.

Florence Loiret Caille made her debut in Érick Zonca’s short film Seule. She has made several films with Michael Haneke, Code inconnu (Code Unknown) and Le Temps des loups (Time of the Wolf), Claire Denis in Every Trouble Day, Vendredi soir, L’Intrus (The Intruder) and Les Salauds (Bastards), Jérôme Bonnell in Le Chignon d’Olga (Olga’s Chignon), J’attends quelqu’un (Waiting for Someone) and La Dame de trèfle (Queen of Clubs), and Sólveig Anspach in Queen of Montreuil and L’Effet aquatique (The Aquatic Effect). She also appeared in Xavier Gianolli’s Une aventure (Only the Night), Agnès Jaoui’s Parlez-moi de la pluie (Let’s Talk About the Rain), Zabou Breitman’s Je l’aimais (Someone I Loved), Sarah Leonor’s Au voleur (A Real Life), Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond’s La Petite Chambre (The Little Bedroom), Matthieu Rozé’s Azuro and Carine Tardieu’s Les Jeunes Amants (The Young Lovers). Her television credits include Le Bureau des légendes (The Bureau) and, more recently, La Maison alongside Lambert Wilson, Pierre Deladonchamps and Carole Bouquet. In 2024, she appeared in Stéphane Marchetti’s La Tête froide (Winter Crossing), Stéphane Demoustier’s Borgo and Lucie Prost’s Fario.

Olga Milshtein has appeared in Mes frères et moi (My Brothers and I) by Yohan Manca and L’Ȋle by Damien Manivel, released in 2023. She played the lead role in the short film Perdre Léna by Mathilde Profit, for which she received the Prix Jean Carmet du jeune espoir. This month she stars alongside Françoise Lebrun and Mathieu Amalric in Spectateurs (Filmlovers!) by Arnaud Desplechin.