Edition 2025
Selection 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 CAREFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY TO ALL THE DIFFERENT OPINIONS.
diverse, collegial committee
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.
Solenn Durmord
After three years at the festival's Communications Department, Solenn took over as Head of the Films Department in 2022, where she has since been responsible for coordinating the short and feature film programme and its guests.
Although her favourite film of all time is Lars von Trier's deeply moving Melancholia, her favourite genre is black comedies like What We Do in the Shadows and Shaun of the Dead (which is way more fun!).
Her — barely — guilty pleasure is to overanalyze teen movies (this is a no-judgement zone), to uncover their unrivaled feminist subtext and ensure that films such as Jennifer's Body by Karyn Kusama or Clueless by Amy Heckerling get the respect and admiration they deserve..
The film she rewatches the most is a draw between Agnès Varda's feminist musical One Sings, the Other Doesn’t and Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, a superb alien film about transmission and language. In Europe, she favours A Blonde in Love by Miloš Forman.
Her favourite villain is the antagonist in High Tension. Those coveralls and that face gave her nightmares for a long time...
When it comes to animals on the silver screen, she loves all the Fantastic Mr Fox gang, but she has a soft spot for Ash, the atypical son because "he is so... different"!
The Hoovers' frenzied dance to “Superfreak” in Little Miss Sunshine is her favourite film scene (I can already see her on the dancefloor), and her favourite mountain scenes are those from Ex Machina — because peaks are just as stunning in the summer!
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...
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”.
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.
