After Rossy de Palma in 2022, French actress Anaïs Demoustier will be the President of the Camera d'or Jury at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, which will reward a film from among all the first feature films presented in the Official Selection and in the parallel sections.
The emotion of the beginnings, youth as a source of inspiration, freshness as a force of conviction: these are all energies that the Cannes Film Festival salutes by awarding the Camera d'or, a trophy symbolizing the primary tool of the cinematographic gaze, and by choosing the actress Anaïs Demoustier to chair this Jury.
In 2022, the Camera d'or was awarded by the Jury chaired by Rossy de Palma to directors Riley Keough and Gina Gammel for their film War Pony, which will be released in theaters in France soon. The Japanese Hayakawa Chie received a special mention for her film Plan 75. Both films were in the Official Selection at Un Certain Regard.
The Jury will present its prize during the closing ceremony of the 76th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday May 27.
Among my greatest joys as a spectator, many are the first films of filmmakers who have become immense. A gesture, the first, which anchors forever the need for a director and stirs up the desire to see him start again. As an actress, I had the chance to experience with young filmmakers the fragile balance between feverishness and will to carry out their first creation. I am very honored and impatient to discover the first Cannes films this year as President of the Camera d'Or Jury. Like promises and surprises from all over the world to tell us how important cinema is…
The Camera d'Or Jury
ANAIS DEMOUSTIER
PRESIDENT OF THE CAMERA D'OR JURY
As usual, the Jury is made up of French representatives of the profession (press, industry, association of filmmakers) as well as a guest artist who will all surround Anaïs Demoustier.
RAPHAEL PERSONNAZ
Actor
NATHALIE DURAND
Director of Photography
For the AFC
French association of directors of cinematographic photography
MIKAEL BUCH
Screenwriter & director
For SRF
Society of Film Directors
SOPHIE FRILLEY
CEO of TITRAFILM
For FICAM
Federation of Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia Industries
NICOLAS MARCADE
Editor-in-chief of the Cinema Files and the Annual Cinema
For the SFCC
French Syndicate of Film Critics
About the Golden Camera
Since 1978, the Caméra d'or has been awarded to one of the first films presented in the Official Selection, Critics' Week or the Filmmakers' Fortnight. Intended to encourage young creation, this prize acts as an accelerator for the careers of filmmakers by offering them unique insight and international openness. In the past, it has rewarded Jim Jarmusch, Jafar Panahi, Ildikó Enyedi, President of the Short Films and La Cinef Jury at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, and Steve McQueen and Anthony Chen, both in the Official Selection this year.
The lists of films in competition this year can be consulted via the following links: Official Selection, Critics' Week and Filmmakers' Fortnight.
About Anaïs Demoustier
César for Best Actress in 2020 for the critically and publicly acclaimed film Alice and the Mayor by Nicolas Pariser, Anaïs Demoustier has a rich and varied filmography. She has worked with filmmakers such as Michael Haneke for Le Temps du loup presented Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, Christophe Honoré for La Belle personne (2008), Anna Novion for her first film Les Grandes Hommes (2008), Rebecca Zlotowski for Belle Épine (2010), Les Neiges du Kilimanjaro by Robert Guédiguian selected for Un Certain Regard at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Małgorzata Szumowska for Elles and Claude Miller for Thérèse Desqueyroux with whom she returned Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. in Quai d'Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier in 2013, Bird People by Pascale Ferran selected for Un Certain Regard in 2014, or even Marguerite and Julien by Valérie Donzelli with whom she returned to the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 and made her first appearance in Competition. In 2022, she is also showing two films with totally different universes selected Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival: Novembre by Cédric Jimenez and Smoking makes you cough by Quentin Dupieux. We will soon see her in Le temps d'aimer by Katell Quillévéré and again under the direction of Quentin Dupieux for his latest film, Daaaaaali!