Official Jury

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.

Ariane Louis-Seize is a Montreal-based filmmaker. She made her directorial debut with her short film “La peau sauvage”, a fantasy drama that travelled to over fifty festivals around the world and won numerous awards and nominations, including Best Fiction Short at the Gala Québec Cinéma and the Canadian Screen Awards. She then shot “Les petites vagues”, selected for the Berlinale and Canada’s Top Ten at TIFF. In 2018, Ariane wrote and directed “Les profondeurs”, followed by “Comme une comète” in 2019, both of which had their world premiere at TIFF and their Quebec premiere at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. With “Comme une comète”, Ariane wins a dozen awards around the world, as well as being nominated again for the Iris for Best Fiction Short at the Gala Québec Cinéma. “Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant” is her first feature film. This darkly humorous vampire comedy-drama will be released in autumn 2023.

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Casting director since 1998, with Laurent Cantet’s “Ressources Humaines”, Constance Demontoy has worked on more than a hundred casts, in films and series, including “Dix pour Cent”. Recent film credits: “Ma vie ma gueule” by Sophie Fillières (Cannes Film Festival 2024), “Moi capitaine” by Matteo Garrone, “Vermines” by Sebastien Vanicek, the AMC/Canal + series “Monsieur Spade” by Scott Franck, “Titane” (in collaboration with Christel Baras, Palme d’or 2021).

Pablo Pauly trained at the Classe Libre du Cours Florent, the Conservatoire Supérieur National d’Art Dramatique (CNSAD) and then in London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. In 2014, he appeared on screen in “De toute nos forces” by director Nils Tarvernier, and continued to blaze his trail by starring in Emmanuelle Bercot’s “La fille de Brest”. It was in 2017 that Pablo really made a name for himself, starring in Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir’s film “Patients”. A performance that earned him a nomination at the 43rd Césars ceremony in the Best New Male Talent category. Since then, he has taken on a succession of film roles, working with such great directors as Anne Fontaine on “Blanche comme neige”, Jérôme Bonnell on “Chère Léa”, and appearing in Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch”, and more recently in such zany comedies as Nicolas Pleskof’s “Murder Party” and Nicolas Boukrief’s “Trois jours et une vie”. In 2022, Pablo delighted critics in “Trois nuits par semaine”, Florent Gouelou’s first film, screened at the Venice Film Festival. In 2024 we can see him alongside Michel Fau in Stéphane Demoustier’s film “Ibiza” and Laetitia Masson’s “Un hiver en été”, and again under the direction of Jérôme Bonnell for “A la joie”, for which he won the best actor prize at the La Rochelle fiction festival. Finally, we can see him in Wilfried Meance and Olivier Ducray’s film “Et plus si affinité”, which won four awards at the Alpe D’huez festival.

After 8 years at M6, in 2001 Allan wrote and sold his first feature film script, which never saw the light of day. Fortunately, he and his writing partner bounced back by making two short films, including Patiente, which won the Grand Prix at Off-Courts, and at the same time writing a second feature, Vilaine, which was produced on a very modest budget and had an inversely proportional box office of over a million admissions. He then spent two years writing season 1 of Kabul Kitchen, which he directed in 2011. Two seasons will follow. 36 episodes in all and 7 years of life later, Allan returns to feature films with a rockn’roll, girl power crime comedy starring Cécile de France, Audrey Lamy and Yolande Moreau: Rebelles, released on March 13, 2019. The box office smiles on him again, with almost 950,000 admissions. Today, he is once again turning to a series, Néro, a creation for Netflix (8×45′). Three years of writing for season 1 of this medieval adventure series, due for release in 2025. He has just finished shooting the first 4 episodes in France and Spain.