Rithy Panh
Writer and director
Rithy Panh
Writer and director
Rithy Panh was born in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. After escaping from the Khmer Rouge camps in 1979, he spent several months in a refugee camp in Thailand. He moved to France a year later in 1985 and began attending IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques [Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies]).
Diana El Jeiroudi
producer
Diana El Jeiroudi
producer
Born in Damascus in 1977, Diana El Jeiroudi is a Syrian independent documentary film director and producer, and a co-founder and general manager of the DOX BOX Association, supporting documentary filmmakers from the Arab World, an heir to the pioneering DOX BOX documentary film festival that she co-founded originally in Syria.
Scott Foundas
Chief Film Critic for Variety
Scott Foundas
Chief Film Critic for Variety
Scott Foundas is Chief Film Critic for Variety. Prior to joining Variety, he was Chief Film Critic for The Village Voice, where his writing was syndicated throughout the Village Voice Media network (including the L.A. Weekly).
Irène Jacob
Actress
Irène Jacob
Actress
Irène's first cinematic role was in Louis Malle's “Au Revoir les Enfants”.
Nicolas Philibert
President of the Jury, writer and french director
Nicolas Philibert
President of the Jury, writer and french director
Known for his intimate, sensitive and respectful approach to reality, Nicolas Philibert made his mark in 1978 with the documentary La Voix de son maître , co-directed with Gérard Mordillat, which explores the roots of capitalism through the discourses of a dozen major bosses of French industry. He subsequently directed several landmark films, including La Ville Louvre (1990), Le pays des sourds (1993), Un animal, des animaux (1995), La moindre des choses (1997) before Being and Having (2002), which, with nearly 2 million spectators in France, remains one of the biggest hits in theaters for a documentary. Over the years, these include Retour en Normandie (2007), Nenette (2010), La Maison de la radio (2013), De chaque instant (2018) and Sur L’Adamant, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2023. Her trilogy on psychiatry (Sur L’Adamant, Averroes & Rosa Parks, La Machine à écrire) is still to be discovered in cinemas.