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6th INTERNATIONAL THRILLER FILM FESTIVAL

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Emmanuelle Devos © Florent Brannens

Emmanuelle Devos

President of the Jury
Actress

Emmanuelle Devos trained at the Cours Florent under François Florent, Pierre Roman and Francis Huster, who directed her on stage in Corneille’s Le Cid in 1985. During an internship at La Fémis, she met Noémie Lvovsky, who cast her in her first short film, and Arnaud Desplechin, who would become one of her most frequent collaborators, with seven films to their credit. She went on to work with many other filmmakers, including Sophie Fillières, Jérôme Bonnell, Alain Resnais, Marco Bellocchio, Tonie Marshall, Philippe Faucon, Nicolas Bedos and Anne Fontaine. Over the course of her career, Emmanuelle Devos has received two César Awards. She won Best Actress for Jacques Audiard’s Read My Lips in 2002, followed by Best Supporting Actress for Xavier Giannoli’s In the Beginning in 2010. She has also distinguished herself in television, notably playing Commissioner Ferracci in the series BRI, and continues her work in the theater, having won the 2015 Best Actress Molière Award for her performance in Anton Chekhov’s Platonov, directed by the Les Possédées collective. She recently performed in Franck Dubosc’s crime caper How to Make a Killing, Jérôme Bonnell’s period drama The Condition, and Joachim Lafosse’s dramedy Six Days in Spring. She will soon appear in Martin Provost’s Tomorrow I Fall in Love and Aurélien Peilloux’s Chemical Bond.

Ophélie Bau

Actress & director

Originally from Besançon and having trained at the Cours Florent drama school in Montpellier, Ophélie Bau made her film debut in the Mektoub, My Love triptych directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. Her performance in Canto Uno, the trilogy’s first installment, earned her a 2019 César nomination as well as a 2019 Lumière Award for Most Promising Actress. She went on to confirm her talent in Peter Dourountzis’s Rascal (2020), Dominique Lienhard’s Fires in the Dark (2020), and Steve Achiepo’s Slumlord (2022). Alongside her film career, she has appeared on television. She has played a lead role since 2023 in BRI, a cop show created by Jérémie Guez and broadcast on Canal+, and has appeared in Christopher Thompson period-drama series Fortune de France on France 2 (2024) as well as Nicolas Maury’s melodramatic mini-series Les Saisons on Arte (2025). In 2020, she co-directed her first short film, Grace, a finalist at the Nikon Film Festival.

Ophélie Bau © Gyslain Yarhi
Mathieu Demy © DR

Mathieu Demy

Actor, screenwriter, director & producer

Born into a filmmaking family, Mathieu Demy made his screen debut in the films of Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda, before breaking out with Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau’s 1998 musical comedy Jeanne and the Perfect Guy. The next year, he founded his production company, Les Films de l’Autre, through which he developed his first short films. In 2011, he wrote, directed and produced his debut feature, Americano, in which he also played the lead role. His film credits include collaborations with directors Claude Zidi, Michel Hazanavicius, Pierre Salvadori, Pascal Bonitzer, Orso Miret, Jessica Hausner and Céline Sciamma. He has appeared in the television series Mythomaniac, They Were Ten and Oussekine, as well as in The Bureau and On the Verge, for which he also directed several episodes. He has appeared most recently in Delphine Deloget’s All to Play For, Antoine Chevrollier’s Block Pass, Laetitia Dosch’s Dog on Trial, Julie Delpy’s Meet the Barbarians, Cyprien Vial’s Magma and Thierry Klifa’s The Richest Woman in the World.

Delphine Gleize

Director & screenwriter

After studying classic literature and training in screenwriting at La Fémis, Delphine Gleize directed several short films, including Un château en Espagne, which received an award at the Directors’ Fortnight in 1999, and Dirtie Basterdz, winner of the César for Best Short Film in 2000. Two years later, her feature film debut, Carnage, won the Cannes Film Festival Youth Award. Then came the films L’Homme qui rêvait d’un enfant (2007), and The Moon Child (2011), as well as documentaries Cavaliers seuls (2010), co-directed with Jean Rochefort, and Beau joueur (2019). She regularly collaborates on screenplays, notably upcoming films directed by Éric Lartigau and Louis-Julien Petit. She is currently co-writing Le Temps de jouer with Emmanuelle Devos, the actress’s first feature as a director. Delphine Gleize is also preparing to direct S’adapter, an adaptation of Clara Dupont-Monod’s novel of the same name.

Delphine Gleize © Lea Rener
Thierry Klifa © François Dourlen

Thierry Klifa

Director & screenwriter

Beginning with a 12-year career as a film journalist for “Studio Magazine,” Thierry Klifa wrote and directed the 2001 short film Émilie est partie, led by Danielle Darrieux, Sandrine Kiberlain and Michaël Cohen. Three years later, he moved into feature films with I’ve Been Waiting So Long, starring Nathalie Baye, Patrick Bruel, Géraldine Pailhas and Anouk Grinberg. He followed this up with 2006 sophomore feature Family Hero, starring Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Lanvin and Miou Miou, then, in 2011, the melodrama His Mother’s Eyes, with Catherine Deneuve, Géraldine Pailhas, Marina Foïs and Marisa Paredes. In 2017, he directed the thriller All That Divides Us, led by the cast of Catherine Deneuve, Diane Kruger, Nekfeu and Nicolas Duvauchelle, followed by the 2024 police comedy Rachel’s Game, starring Fanny Ardant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Laëtitia Dosch and Michel Vuillermoz. His latest feature, The Richest Woman in the World premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and received six nominations at the 2026 César Awards. Main actor Laurent Lafitte won the César for Best Actor.

Grégory Montel

Actor

Grégory Montel began his career on stage before earning a César Award nomination in 2013 as Most Promising Actor for his role in Grégory Magne’s film, L’Air de rien. In 2015, he broke through as Gabriel, a talent agent in the series Call My Agent! Since then, he has pursued a career across both film and television, having appeared in Cyprien Vial and Océan Michel’s Kiss Me! (2017), Fabien Gorgeart’s Diane Has the Right Shape (2017), Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer’s Little Tickles (2018), Grégory Magne’s Perfumes (2020), Aurélie Saada’s Rose (2021) and Jérôme Bonnell’s The Love Letter (2021). In 2024, he took part in a number of international projects, including John Woo’s The Killer, Carlson Young’s Upgraded and the Netflix series Transatlantic. Last year, he starred in Alex Lutz’s Connemara as well as in the second season of the series Culte 2Be3. He will soon appear in Alain Raoust’s Strawberry Fields Forever and Call My Agent!, a film adaptation of the series directed by Émilie Noblet.

Grégory Montel © Jérôme Dominé
Alix Poisson © Natacha Lamblin

Alix Poisson

Actress & director

A graduate of the Paris National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Alix Poisson began her career in the theater. In 2009, her encounter with director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade kicked off a fruitful collaboration. He directed her in several works for television, including Deadly Path of an Ordinary Mother: The Courjault Case, Vanished, Three Times Manon, The Inside Game and more recently, Sambre. She then made her mark in such series and movies for television as Fabrice Gobert’s The Returned, Charlotte Brandström’s The Disappearance, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Series Mania Festival, Bruno Garcia’s The Unexpected Child, Oliver Goldstick’s The Collection and David Hourrègue’s Germinal. Alix Poisson has also made a name for herself in comedy with Mélissa Drigeard’s series Quadras and the sitcom Parents: A User’s Guide. On the big screen, she has worked with such directors as Bertrand Tavernier, Jan Kounen, Noémie Saglio and Xavier Gens. In 2022, she directed her first short film, 1432, dealing with the fight against sexual violence. She is currently developing a feature film that she is writing.