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The Pope of short films was born in Tunis, he is now established in Rouen. Director and screenwriter of many short films selected and awarded at various festivals, and feature films Girls Lost, Hairy (2002), Welcome to the Gite (2003) and Chez nous c’est trois (2013). He was production manager for short programs at CANAL+ from 1996 to 2001. He is a member of Normandie Images and President of the Les Arcs European Film Festival.

At a very early age, she performed in the theater under the direction of Jean-Louis Barrault, then entered the school of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg (TNS) from which she graduated in 1990.
After graduating, she went on to work with Jacques Lassalle and Jean Jourd’heuil, as well as in the cinema with Claude Chabrol in “L’ivresse du pouvoir”, Dominique Cabrera with whom she made five films, including “Le Lait de la tendresse humaine”, and several films with Manuel Poirier, and Pierre Salvadori’s “Après vous”. She also appeared in films by René Féret, Maïwenn, Robert Guédiguian and Thierry de Peretti. On television, she has been directed by William Karel and Alain Tasma, among others (four films together)
Alongside her acting career, she has made several short films: “Nouilles” won the Grand Prix at the Brest Film Festival, and “Fais de beaux rêves” won the César for best short film and the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand and Belfort Film Festivals in 2007. She has also made a feature film, “Le Sens de l’humour”, and “Faire la paix”, a documentary for Arte.
Recently, she has played for several seasons in the successful series “Alex Hugo” or in “H24” for Arte and in “Follow”, which won the Best Series Award at the La Rochelle Festival in 2023. In 2023, she appeared in Géraldine Danon’s “Flo” and Frédéric Mermoud’s “La Voie royale”. And recently in Juan Carlos Medina’s “Abîme”, Keren Ben Rafael’s “La Nouvelle” and Costa Gavras’ new film “Le Dernier souffle”.

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Philippe Lupien is a screenwriter and fiction director.
The year 2024 marks a major turning point in his career with the release of his first feature film, Vous n’êtes pas seuls (You Are Not Alone). Co-directed with Marie-Hélène Viens, the film stars Pier-Luc Funk, Marianne Fortier, and François Papineau. It had its world premiere at TIFF, where it received an honorable mention from the jury. The film was also selected, among others, at the prestigious Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, the Festival du nouveau cinéma, and the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. It was also shortlisted for the DGC’s Jean-Marc Vallée Discovery Award.

In parallel with his fiction work, Philippe has directed commercial projects for clients such as Telus, Fonds FTQ, Desjardins, Uniprix, Cook It, Québecor, Opération Enfant Soleil, and many others. In 2021, he won an IDEA award in the “Best Branded Content” category for an ad series highlighting the high-end lighting company Larose Guyon.

In 2020, Philippe directed an English-language TV movie distributed internationally. He also co-directed, with Marie-Hélène Viens, the short films Bernard le grand (2013), Amen (2015), and Nous sommes le freak show (2017), which were selected at over a hundred festivals worldwide and received around fifteen awards.

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It was in 2018 that Madeleine Baudot began her acting career with small roles in short films.
That same year, directors Lauriane Escaffre and Yvonnick Muller offered her her first lead role alongside Grégory Gadebois in the short film “Pile Poil”. Madeleine won several acting awards for this film. The film, funny and moving, also won numerous awards, including the César for Best Short Film in 2020.
Madeleine continued her career with secondary roles, mainly in feature films. The first being Julien Guetta’s “Roulez jeunesse” in 2018.
The following year, she will be seen in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s “Le jeune Ahmed”.
In 2021, she will appear in Audrey Diwan’s “L’événement” and Nabil Ben Yadir’s “Animals”.
In 2022, she will play the lead role in a Belgian web series produced by RTBF, “Le trou”.
In 2023, she will star alongside Raphaël Quenard in the Netflix film “Cash”.
That same year, she appeared in Rémi Bezançon’s film “Un coup de maître”, as well as in Pierre Godeau’s “Sous le vent des marquises”.
In 2024, Madeleine devoted herself to writing and directing “Salon Saphir”, her very first one-woman show in the realm of the dead and soft sandwiches. Madeleine plays a gallery of colorful characters in a funeral home.
The show, with its wacky yet touching humor, was a hit at its first Belgian performances in March 2025.
Madeleine will star in Pierre Salvadori’s next feature film, scheduled for release in 2026.”

Amaury Chabauty began an eclectic musical career at a young age, ranging from cello and chamber music to rock guitar in indie bands. Before devoting himself to film music, he studied cinema and worked as a picture editor for ten years on fiction and documentary films. This understanding of narrative and dramaturgy through images fueled his conviction that a soundtrack is also a matter of staging and rhythm. He put this belief into practice in 2006, when he created a training program dedicated to ciné-concert, for which he composes soundtracks to films from Japan’s silent film heritage. Amaury Chabauty then forges close ties with filmmakers, accompanying them from short to feature-length films. In Sylvain Desclous’ films, for example, he knows how to point out the violence of the inner rhythms of the corporate world, from his shorts Le monde à l’envers (2012) and Mon héros (2014) to his first feature film Vendeur (2016), where percussion and folk music accompany the protagonist’s shenanigans. Since 2020, he has also been working with the brothers Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, with whom he has adopted the orchestral form of genre films and social family dramas: Teddy (Official Selection Cannes 2020), L’année du requin (2022) and Leurs enfants après eux (Official Competition Venice Film Festival 2024), an adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu’s Prix Goncourt and bestseller. His collaboration with Anaïs Tellenne culminates in the feature film L’homme d’argile (2023), selected for the Venice Film Festival, in which the use of traditional music and orchestra goes beyond clichés to conjure up an imaginary gothic tale.

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