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French character Leïla Bekhti has been announced arsenic President of nan Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard Jury.
She will beryllium joined by Senegalese producer Angèle Diabang, Lebanon’s composer Khaled Mouzanar, Italy’s director Laura Samani, and France’s director Thomas Cailley.
Bekhti follows successful nan footsteps of UK filmmaker Molly Manning Walker successful 2025 whose assemblage awarded Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes nan Un Certain Regard Prize for his debut filmThe Mysterious Gaze of nan Flamingo.
“For my first clip arsenic Jury President, I will find myself successful nan unsocial position of watching, listening, sharing, and celebrating. Working successful cinema has taught maine that movies are places of brushwood pinch others, pinch oneself, pinch nan world,” said Bekhti.
“Discovering them alongside a jury, surviving this timeless experience, is some a work and a joy. I look guardant to nan exchanged perspectives, nan dialogues, and nan doubts arsenic well, which dress up nan richness of this surviving art. And, ultimately, I will beryllium location successful nan astir precious spot of all: that of nan audience.”
Bekhti first came to nan public’s attraction successful Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (2009), pinch much caller credits including Gilles Lellouche’s Sink aliases Swim (2018), Joachim Lafosse’s The Restless (2021), Kheiron’s All Three of Us (2015), Perfect Nanny (2019), Jeanne Herry’s All Your Faces (2023), and Ken Scott’s Once Upon My Mother (2025). She will soon look successful Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Changer l’eau des fleurs.
Cannes Un Certain Regard opens pinch Teenage Sex and Death astatine Camp Miasma. The 79th Cannes Film Festival runds from May 12 to May 23.
