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FEATURE FILM JURY

Dominik Moll, President of the Jury of the 17th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival

After considering becoming a wildlife filmmaker, Dominik Moll discovered Alfred Hitchcock's films and decided to turn to fiction. He studied film at the City College of New York and IDHEC, where he met his collaborator Gilles Marchand. Together they wrote the screenplays for most of their respective films. Dominik Moll directed his first feature film, Intimacy (1994), while working as an editor and assistant director (notably with Laurent Cantet and Marcel Ophuls).

His second film, Harry, He's Here to Help, was presented in competition at Cannes in 2000 and was a critical and commercial success, winning four César Awards.

In 2023, The Night of the 12th won seven César after being praised by the press and the public. His latest film, Case 137, continues to explore the police institution. Dominik Moll has also worked on two international series, including Eden (for Arte) on the intertwined destinies of migrants across Europe.

Placing the quest for truth at the heart of his filmography, Dominik Moll accurately transcribes, on the big screen, the dilemmas of his characters as they face the moral questions of our society. He will chair the Feature Film Jury at the 17th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival, which will take place from December 13 to 20, 2025, in Les Arcs.

Damien Bonnard

Damien Bonnard studied at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 2016, he landed his first leading role with Alain Guiraudie in Rester Vertical, for which he was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actor and won the Prix Lumière for Male Revelation. In 2019, he starred in Ladj Ly's Les Misérables (Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes and France's representative at the Oscars).

Since then, Damien Bonnard has been nominated for several César Awards. In 2023, he starred in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City and Yòrgos Lànthimos' Poor Things. In 2025, he will appear in La Pampa by Antoine Chevrollier, Reine Mère by Manele Labidi, and Le Système Victoria by Sylvain Desclous, as well as in the series Malditos by Jean-Charles Hue and Traqués by Cédric Anger. He will soon appear in Grand Ciel by Akihiro Hata.

Monia Chokri

Monia Chokri trained at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, graduating in the mid-2000s. In 2010, she came to the attention of the general public with her role in Xavier Dolan's Les Amours imaginaires, a filmmaker she would work with again two years later on Laurence Anyways.

Alongside her acting career, she also moved behind the camera and made her first short film, Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire, which was selected for numerous festivals and won several awards. Her first feature film, La Femme de mon frère, presented at Cannes in 2019 in the Un Certain Regard section, received the Jury's Special Prize and drew attention to her work as a filmmaker. Three years later, she returned with Babysitter.

In 2023, she directed Simple comme Sylvain, which was again presented at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section and won the César Award for Best Foreign Film the following year, confirming her status as one of the leading directors of her generation.

Nevertheless, she continues her acting career and shoots for emerging filmmakers. She can be seen in Falcon Lake, Charlotte Le Bon's first feature film. 
This year, she appeared in Tristan Séguéla's Mercato and will soon be seen in Alice Douard's Des preuves d'amour, Anna Cazenave Cambet's Love Me Tender, and Nathan Ambrosioni's Les Enfants vont bien, alongside Camille Cottin, all due for release at the end of this year.

Dom La Nena

Dom La Nena, Brazilian composer, cellist and singer, has released four solo albums acclaimed by the international press, including The New Yorker, The Guardian and the BBC.She also composes for cinema, most recently for the films On Ira (Enya Baroux), La Vie de Ma Mère (Julien Carpentier), L’Étoile Filante (Abel & Gordon) and Le Chant des Forêts (Vincent Munier).

She has performed at prestigious venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris and the Barbican Centre, and collaborates with artists such as Jane Birkin, Piers Faccini, Agnès Jaoui and the Maîtrise de Radio France.

Together with Rosemary Standley, she forms the duo Birds on a Wire, currently touring throughout France.

Nadia Tereszkiewicz

After starting out in theatre, Nadia Tereszkiewicz played the lead role in Sauvages (Denny Berry) in 2017. She made a name for herself in Persona non grata (Roschdy Zem), Seules les bêtes (Dominik Moll) and the series Possessions (Thomas Vincent). She then appeared in Les Amandiers (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), in competition at the Festival de Cannes, for which she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress. In 2023, she starred in Mon Crime by François Ozon and then made her debut as a voice actress in La Jeune Fille et les Paysans. Since then, she has appeared in Rosalie by Stéphanie Di Giusto, Testa o croce by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis, selected in the Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes, and in Deux Pianos by Arnaud Desplechin.

SHORT FILM JURY

Jessica Palud, President of the Short Film Jury at the 17th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival

Jessica Palud was born in Paris. She began working on film sets at an early age, first in production, then as an assistant director (on films by Sofia Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Eric Lartigau, Philippe Lioret, etc.). In 2017, she directed a short film, Marlon, which was selected for more than 150 festivals around the world (Cannes, Toronto, Clermont-Ferrand), won 40 international awards, and was nominated for a César Award.

Revenir, her first feature film starring Niels Schneider and Adèle Exarchopoulos, was released in 2020 and won the Best Screenplay Award at the Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti).

Maria, her second feature film starring Anamaria Vartolomei and Matt Dillon, was presented in the official selection (Cannes Première) at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. In 2025, she will release her first series: Merteuil, an adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons (HBO Max).

Guilhem Caillard

Specialising in cultural event organisation, French-Canadian Guilhem Caillard is the Managing and Artistic Director of the CINEMANIA Film Festival, based in Quebec, the leading French-language film event in America. His knowledge of film history and contemporary production informs the festival's artistic and strategic choices. A critic for Séquences and Cineuropa, he has also contributed to the magazines Panorama-cinéma, 24 Images and the Cinémathèque québécoise. Founder of the La Concorde francophone network, he sits on the boards of directors of the Partenariat du Quartier des Spectacles and Kino Montréal. In 2023, he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite du Luxembourg.

Salif Cissé

Salif Cissé is an actor, screenwriter, and director, and a rising star among a new generation of artists. Born in La Courneuve, he discovered theater in high school and trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique after a career marked by theater in Seine-Saint-Denis. He made his film debut in Guillaume Brac's À l'abordage (Berlinale 2020), a role that earned him a César nomination in the Best Male Newcomer category. Since then, he has alternated between arthouse cinema and popular comedy: Spectateurs ! by Arnaud Desplechin (special screening at Cannes 2024), Le Répondeur (Alpe d'Huez Audience Award 2025). He also stars in the Netflix series Lupin. At the same time, he is developing his own auteur projects: the short film Alliés (2023), the mini-series Couronnes, and is working on his first feature film.

In 2025, Salif Cissé starred in Le Répondeur (a comedy by Fabienne Godet) and in Météors by Hubert Charuel (Un Certain Regard Cannes 2025). Committed and curious, he co-hosted Moins de 10k sur Mouv’, a program dedicated to emerging talent, until June 2025

Jeanne Goursaud

Jeanne Goursaud, a French-German actress, began her career at the age of 10 and trained in theatre for eight years. Since 2012, she has appeared regularly on television and, since 2015, in films. She was part of the cast of the film The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood) and the crime web series Wishlist, then in Chemistry of Death.

She gained international recognition in the Netflix series Barbarians and made her mark in France with Olivier Marchal in Pax Massilia (Netflix), in which she played Alice Vidal, a success ranked in the top 10 in 70 countries. In 2025, she played the lead role in the action thriller Exterritorial (Netflix), which was number one in the United States and in the top 10 in 80 countries, and followed up with Kabul, a series that won awards at several festivals. A member of the European Film Academy since 2024, she will play the lead role in the American movie Heartless (Camille Delamare) in 2026.

Sabrina Ouazani

Discovered and nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2005 for L’Esquive by director Abdellatif Kechiche, Sabrina Ouazani entered the world of cinema with Le Passé by Asghar Farhadi and Paris by Cédric Klapisch. In 2013, she accompanied Abd Al Malik in his first feature film Qu'Allah bénisse la France, and they reunited on stage in Albert Camus' Les Justes. She directed her first short film On va manquer ! and then enjoyed great success with the series Plan Cœur. She starred in Édouard Baer's Ouvert la nuit, Mohamed Hamidi's Jusqu'ici tout va bien and Ismaël Ferroukhi's Mica. In 2025, she appeared in Houda Benyamina's Toutes pour une, Bruno Merle's series Extra-lucide and in the theatre revival of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Louis Peres

Louis Peres quickly made a name for himself by landing the role of Simon, one of the main characters in the drama Mental. The following year, he shared the screen with Swann Arlaud in Douglas Attal's Comment je suis devenu un super-héros (How I Became a Superhero). In 2021, he appeared in the hit series Germinal, adapted from the novel by Emile Zola. That same year, he landed one of the lead roles in Sentinelles, an OCS Originals series. Louis Peres currently plays the lead role in the series Les Sentinelles. On the big screen, he will soon appear in L’Île de la demoiselle, then in Les Misérables alongside Camille Cottin, as well as in Peau d’Homme, where he will share the screen with Catherine Deneuve.