Selection committee

 diverse, collegial committee

All our films are selected by a collegial committee. We are committed to diversity, mixing men and women, experience and youth. In the end, it's Frédéric Boyer, our artistic director, who decides on the final cut after listening carrefully and respectfully to all the different opinions.

Frédéric Boyer

Frédéric is our feature films commitee's artistic director. You could say he’s the Big Boss of the selection committee. Roadie, record dealer, video-club employee, prop master, boom operator… What job hasn't he done throughout his long career in music and film?

He also ran the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and is the current artistic director of the famous Tribeca Film Festival. The Cinémathèque française is his second home (some might even say his first).

His tender heart's favourite genre is melodrama.

In the team, he always listens to his coworkers and sometimes changes his mind about films (Editor's note: this is an understatement) to trick the committee into believing that the selection process is democratic. At the end of the day, he's the one responsible for the final programme and answering our audience’s eternal question: "Why don’t you show more comedies?".

His guilty pleasure is I am Sam by Jessie Nelson but his cult favourite is Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino.

His favourite film sequence is the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho — and 78/52, the documentary about it. Too predictable? Ok, let's dig a little deeper: he also loves all the celebrity impressions scenes in The Trip by Michael Winterbottom.

His favourite villain is Malcolm Mc Dowell in A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick and his favourite animal is the crow in The Hawks and the Sparrows by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Finally, his favourite mountain scenes are those in Fred Zinnemann’s Five Days One Summer.

Pascale Faure

Pascale selects our short films. Immersed in the world of artistic and cinematographic creation for some thirty years, she has led numerous projects in the world of media and cinema. She is currently a cinema consultant for short and feature films, and a film programmer for cinema platforms and cultural events.

Her favorite genre is the musical, from Hollywood to Bollywood, she loves it when it swings! In European cinema, at the two extremes, she favors Nobody Will Speak of Us When We’re Dead by Augustin Diaz Yannes, with Victoria Abril at the top of her game, and Ruben Öslund's Triangle of Sadness, a jubilant piece of cinema!

Her guilty (and total) pleasure would be all Mike Leigh's films (short and long), but films she has seen the most are Blood Orange by Jean-Christophe Meurisse and Parasite by Bong Joon-ho.

Her favorite scene: Virginie Efira in Victoria by Justine Triet, when she pleads in court still stoned, and the wedding dress fitting scene in Bridesmaids by screenwriters Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo.

Her favorite villain is Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men by the Coen brothers, a complete weirdo! But she makes up for it by telling that her favorite good character is Frances Mcdormand in Nomadland by Chloé Zhao. 

As for fictional animals, she loves Babe, the adorable pig turned shepherd.

Her favorite soundtrack? Michel Magne's soundtrack in Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautifull by Jean Yanne.

Her favorite mountain films are Valley of Love by Guillaume Nicloux and The Summit of the Gods by Patrick Imbert. Two very different ways of feeling the rock.

Guillaume Calop

Guillaume is one of the co-founders of the Festival and its General Manager. He also runs a creative label (Chalet Pointu) that releases little-known and rare films, such as animated shorts, on DVD. He's a film lover with broad taste, which ranges from Judd Apatow comedies to “BBB” (Beautiful But Boring) films. He's one of the gang’s short film champions.

His guilty pleasure is The Sound of Music by Robert Wise. You can sometimes catch him singing "Do-Re-Mi" (only in private).

His cult favourite is Dimensions of Dialogue by Jan Svankmajer and his favourite film scene is in Victoria by Sebastian Schipper (it’s easy, the entire film is one shot!).

His favourite animal is Totoro (what do you mean it's not a real animal?).

His favourite mountain film scene? James Brown in Ski Party, arriving at a party on skis before launching into a rendition of “I Feel Good”.

Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin

Pierre-Emmanuel is one of the co-founders and the CEO of the Festival. After finishing a dual Master's degree in Art, Cinema and Economics, and a DESS in Audiovisual Communications Law at La Sorbonne, he's been spending his long workdays producing films and TV series for over 15 years.

A child at heart, his favourite genre is and will always be the Western.

Within the committee, he is known as a master at pulling off complexe strategies (nope, having good taste and authority aren’t enough for our little gang...).

His guilty pleasures are Tropic Thunder by Ben Stiller and Francis the First with Fernandel. But when asked publicly, he’ll proudly answer that his all-time favourite is Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurozawa. A true knockout.

His favourite scene is the tuna fishing in Stromboli and the villain who still sends shivers down his spine is Madame Medusa from The Rescuers.

Finally, his favourite mountain scene is when the gang are introduced to "la Fougne" in French Fried Vacation 2. It probably reminds him of his own childhood in the Alps...

Lise Perottet

Lise is the general coordinator of the think tank the Lab Femmes de Cinéma and has also worked for the Festival since 2021. She joined the feature film selection committee in 2024.

Her favourite genre is the coming of age, she loves to see the evolution of characters at key moments in their lives. How to Have Sex by Molly Manning is one of the films that has made a particularly strong impression on her recently, but her favourite to date is American Honey by Andrea Arnold.

Her guilty pleasure is watching films over and over again that are bound to bring her strong emotions (tears, no doubt!) and that deal with love relationships, such as Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Michel Gondry. Her favourite sequence is in The Handmaiden by Park Chan Wook: without spoilers, it's a scene in a library about ink, discovery and escape, set to a masterful soundtrack.

While the villain in The Handmaiden is particularly terrifying, her favourite villains are to be found in the animated films of Studio Ghibli, precisely because they are all about subtlety. Lady Eboshi, the Witch of the Waste, Yubaba: there's no real villain in all of them.

It's in the animated film Alice in Wonderland that we find her favourite fictional animal: the Cheshire Cat, for his smile, his freedom and above all his madness! Decidedly team cats. But there's a dog, Snoop, in her favourite mountains scenes: those in Anatomy of a Fall, where Justine Triet sublimates our snowy Savoie region, providing the perfect backdrop for this dissection of the couple's inner workings.

Pascaline Meunier

After studying film and multimedia at the New Sorbonne University, Pascaline is now Head of Audience Development at Les Arcs Film Festival.

Her favourite genre is the docu-drama, and her guilty pleasure is Mamma Mia, the ultimate feel-good musical (here we go again!).

Her cult films are Faces and Husbands — but honestly any film by John Cassavetes will do. On the European cinema side, she loves Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello.

Her favourite villain is Ben (Benoît Poelvoorde), the Belgian serial killer in Man bites dog! She has plenty of favourite movie animals, but if she had to adopt just one, it would be Belle, Belle and Sebastien's Pyrenean Mountain Dog!

If she could only save one film scene, it would be the one where the exceptional cast of Mommy sing the Celine Dion song "On ne change pas" in the Xavier Dolan film!

Finally, her favourite on-screen mountains are the splendid peaks in A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick, a beautiful film shot in the Austrian Alps.

Sophie Pewinski

After completing a Master’s degree in Contemporary History, specialising in post-Soviet history, Sophie continued her studies in cultural management. She is now working at the Les Arcs Film Festival office as a programming assistant.

Her favourite film is Mulholland Drive by David Lynch, because it was this film that made her want to work in cinema. If you ask her, she might even tell you how her soul left her body during the screening…

Her favourite genre? She has two. Obsessed with Eastern European, she will probably recommend Getting to Know the Big Wide World by Kira Muratova or encourage you to discover the films of Leida Laius. She is also fascinated by fantastical cinema: how the monstrous allows us to look at our societies in a new way, through filmmakers such as Guillermo del Toro, Satoshi Kon and Dario Argento.

Her guilty pleasure, vampire movies (pronounced with a rolled R). From the Twilight saga to A Vampire Humanist Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person by Ariane Louis-Seize, not forgetting Daughters of Darkness by Harry Kümel. She is fascinated by the figure of the vampire (probably in the hope of being bitten and becoming immortal).

Her favourite sequence? The entire dance and love-at-first-sight scene in the gym, in the first act of West Side Story by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

Her favourite villain? You’ll mostly find them in animation: Hal and Humanity in WALL-E, Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke, or Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas. And in live-action, it’s the State in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

Her favourite fictional animal is Kevin (What? Kevin is a girl!), the bird from Up! A magnificent, colourful bird, Kevin is funny, adorable, and above all a great mom.

Finally, her favourite mountain scene? The majesty and danger of the Chilean Andes in Society of the Snow by Juan Antonio Bayona.

Théo Chesnais

A Breton far from his homeland, after completing a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Performing Arts at Rennes 2 University, Théo heads to the capital to pursue a research Master’s degree in cinema. He joins Les Arcs Film Festival office, where he assists the cultural and educational outreach team.

His favourite film, Perfect Days by Wim Wenders, for the subtlety of Koji Yakusho’s performance and the philosophy of life, Komorebi, simplicity instead of a thousand words.

His favourite genre: thrillers (Korean, if possible), Burning, Oldboy, The Chaser!!!

His guilty pleasure? The Spider-Man movies. Théo is still a big kid at heart (who dreams of having the same superpowers). He also has a Lego DeLorean at home, so perhaps more than one guilty pleasure?

His favourite sequence, the moment when Kevin McCarthy discovers that he is surrounded by aliens and runs away in Don Siegel’s film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

His favourite villain is Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds. After all, only madmen drink milk…

His favourite animal? Puss in Boots, because he reminds her of her adorable and fiercely feisty little ginger cat!

Finally, his favourite mountain scene: the Ardèche plateaus, poetically captured by Raymond Depardon in his Profils Paysans trilogy.

Eléa Almy

After studying philosophy and gaining some experience at film festivals, Eléa joins Les Arcs Film Festival office to contribute to programming and guest reception.

Her favourite film? Probably The Green Ray by Éric Rohmer, both for Marie Rivière (her favourite actress!) and for this bittersweet wandering that always leaves her feeling nostalgic.

Her favourite genre is documentary films that blur the line between fiction and reality. And in particular, those that give her hope because they try to change life by bringing it to life on screen, as the films of the Medvedkine Groups and Dominique Cabrera do.

Her guilty pleasure? Sun-drenched summer films that cure the winter blues. Especially Treasure Island by Guillaume Brac, with its lively Cergy leisure centre; the three summers of Dying in Ibiza by Léo Couture, Anton Balekdjian and Mattéo Eustachon; and the chaotic holiday of The Aventura by Sophie Letourneur.

Her favourite sequence is the otherworldly singing during the funeral that opens Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s The Temple Woods Gang. She considers that not shedding a little tear during this scene means you have no heart.

Her favourite fictional animal? The mischievous cats that Chris Marker sprinkles throughout his films.

Finally, her favourite mountain film is The Drowned by Louise Hémon, with its dazzlingly white snow.

Jérémy Zelnik

An eternal teenager, he joined the team just 17 years ago as director of professional events for the festival. After a stint as CEO of the Naïve music label, he returned to launch the Music Village and joined the selection committee a few years ago, while producing films and documentaries in his spare time.

On the selection committee, he is the ally of circumstance that everyone believes they can rally to their cause, but who knows how to wait for the right moment to reveal himself and tip the balance. His favorite genres are westerns and film noir, and his favorite film is undoubtedly Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep, starring the legendary couple Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

Her favorite mountain scene: the spectacular opening scene of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore 

His favorite soundtrack: he's torn between his guilty pleasure for musicals, such as Alain Resnais' On connaît la chanson, and, in a completely different style, the cult soundtrack of Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides by the duo Air.