The Jury 2025

Julie Gayet

President of the Jury, French actress and producer

Julie Gayet is a French actress, producer, and director. Her career begins in 1992 with an appearance in Blue by Krzysztof Kieślowski. In 1995, Agnès Varda gives her her first major role in One Hundred and One Nights. She goes on to appear in films such as Delphine 1, Yvan 0 by Dominique Farrugia (1996), Shall We Kiss? by Emmanuel Mouret (2007), 8 Times Up by Xabi Molia (2009), The French Minister by Bertrand Tavernier (2013) and TV series like Call My Agent! (2015). In 2021, she launches the Sœurs Jumelles Festival, held in Rochefort every year at the end of June, where a selection of unreleased musical documentaries is presented.

Carmen Castillo

Chilean director

Born in Chile and trained as a historian, Carmen Castillo became a filmmaker in France, where she was granted political asylum. Using the perspective of exile, she has sought to create in books and films an intimate and collective memory, never closed, of the experiences of resistance to dictatorship and the joy of political commitment. Her many documentaries include Rue Santa Fé (2007, Étoile de la Scam 2008) and Chili 1973, une ambassade face au coup d'État (2019).

Juliette Favreul Renaud

French producer

Juliette Favreul Renaud is a film and television producer with 2711 Production / JE Films. After a notable career at StudioCanal, Canal+, and Wild Bunch—where she notably produced City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, Madame Satã by Karim Aïnouz, and Hey Good Looking! (Comme t’y es belle) by Lisa Azuelos—she has continued to support ambitious and socially engaged projects. These include Women Are Heroes by JR, selected for the Critics’ Week at Cannes, Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) by Marion Vernoux, the series Vernon Subutex, adapted from the famous trilogy by Virginie Despentes, as well as collaborations on the theatrical documentary Sale Race by Tania de Montaigne and Stéphane Foenkinos.

Frédéric Maire

Director of the Cinémathèque suisse

Frédéric Maire is a filmmaker, journalist, and programmer, born in 1961 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Starting in 1979, he directed several short and medium-length films for cinema and television, and from 1983 onwards, he worked as a cultural journalist for various Swiss media outlets. In 2005, he was appointed Artistic Director of the Locarno International Film Festival. In 2009, he became director of the Cinémathèque Suisse, a position he will leave this coming September. He also served as President of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) from 2017 to 2023.

Marc Zinga

Belgian-Congolese actor

Marc Zinga is a Belgian-Congolese actor, born in 1984 in Likasi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He gained recognition in 2014 for his role in Scouting for Zebras (Les Rayures du Zèbre) by Benoît Mariage, which earned him the Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor in 2015. Alongside his film career, Marc Zinga has also had a rich stage career, notably through his many collaborations with the Villeurbanne’s TNP. He is deeply committed to questions of cultural transmission and representation within the European audiovisual landscape.