Guests of Honour 2025

isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani, born in Paris to an Algerian father and German mother, is one of the most award-winning French actresses of her generation. She was the youngest member of the Comédie-Française, then made her mark in cinema at an early age with François Truffaut's The Story of Adèle H., which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Camille Claudel also earned her an Oscar nomination.

Winner of five César Awards for Best Actress (Possession, L'Été meurtrier, Camille Claudel, La Reine Margot, La Journée de la jupe), she also received the Best Actress Award at the Festival de Cannes for Possession and Quartet.

Her later years saw her return to the stage on several occasions, and above all to the screen. She appeared in the films Peter von Kant (François Ozon) and Mascarade (Nicolas Bedos), and for streaming platforms in Les voleuses (Mélanie Laurent, Netflix), The Perfect Couple (Netflix USA) and Soleil noir (Netflix France).

DANIEL BRÜHL

Award-winning actor Daniel Brühl has been involved in several critically acclaimed film and television projects, such as Quentin Tarantino’ Inglourious Basterds, Ron Howard's Rush, The First Avenger: Civil War, Wolfgang Beckers Good Bye, Lenin!, the series The Alienist, Marvels The Falcon & the Winter Soldier, the French Disney+ series Becoming Karl Lagerfeld and The Franchise directed by Sam Mendes. Recently he was shooting The Entertainment System is down, the latest feature Ruben Östlund has set to direct after his Palme d’Or-winning Triangle of Sadness. 

With his production company Amusement Park and his production partner Malte Grunert he produced the Netflix movie All Quiet on the Western Front, which was a huge success around the world, winning lots of awards, among them 4 Oscars, 7 BAFTAs and 9 German LOLAs.

tarik saleh

Born in Stockholm in 1972 of a Swedish mother and Egyptian father, Tarik Saleh first made a name for himself in the 1980s as one of the Swedish capital's most famous graffiti artists. He went on to direct several documentaries, including Sacrificio: Who betrayed Che Guevara? and Gitmo: The New Rules of War. He made his fiction debut with the animated film Metropia. 

In 2017, The Nile Hilton Incident won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. In France, after receiving the Grand Prize at the Beaune International Thriller Film Festival, it attracted more than 400,000 viewers. It was nominated for a César Award for Best Foreign Film and won eight Guldbaggen Awards (the Swedish BAFTA Awards), including Best Film and Best Actor for Fares Fares. In 2022, Boy From Heaven, which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Festival de Cannes, attracted more than 500,000 viewers.

His next film, Eagles of the Republic, presented in competition at the Festival de Cannes, will be released on November 12, 2025. The film tells the story of George Fahmy, Egypt's most beloved actor, who is forced by the authorities to play President Sissi in a film glorifying the leader. He finds himself immersed in the inner circle of power and begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general supervising the film...