Selection committee

 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.

Fantine Bliek

Born in the Cantal, Fantine has been surrounded by festivals since a little girl. She joined the Film Department this year as a programming intern. 

As she grew up with Out of Africa and A River Runs Through It, her favourite genres are dramas and dramedy. She likes beautiful stories, with big and long contemplation scenes : she is a sensitive person.

Her guilty pleasure : old French musicals orchestrated by Michel Legrand, such as Donkey Skin or The Young Girls of Rochefort. The cult 70s/80s French rom-coms are not that far behind in her heart : Peppermint Soda and The Party, it doesn’t age !

As a music lover, the film she will never be tired of is La La Land by Damien Chazelle (and Justin Hurwitz had a role to play for that!). In Europe that would be Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for all its colours and mostly its gazpacho that make our mouth water !

If she had to pick just one sequence from a film, that would undoubtedly be the opening of Nadine Labaki’s movie, Where Do We Go Now ? capable of bringing tears to your eyes at the mere sight of a majestic procession of women marching towards their village cemetery…

Finally, her favourite mountain scene is in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. She would opt for the whole movie if she could, but since she has to choose, it'll have to be the one where Jack catches Ennis in the hoop against a breathtaking mountain backdrop!

Olga Maufoy-Mollaret

Passionate about both film and flowers, Olga decided to go all-in on both. She earned a cinema degree between Paris and Bologna, as well as a diploma in floristry. With experience from various film festivals, mostly in Europe, she is now lending a hand at the Film Department as Hospitality assistant.

Her favorite genre? Modern, realistic romances that steer clear of those sugary clichés. She also has a soft spot for animation — a guilty pleasure that's unfortunately way too often seen as kid's stuff, but absolutely delightful for her.

The Harry Potter saga was on repeat during her childhood, playing endlessly on her DVD player. Her sister, fed up with the same old tunes, nudged her to check out new films, sparking a lifelong cinematic adventure.

When it comes to villains, Olga's got a thing for the White Witch, portrayed by the incredible Tilda Swinton in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This role marked the beginning of her admiration for the spectacular actress. 

As for fictional animals, Michael Dudok de Wit's Red Turtle holds a special place in her heart.

And snowy mountain scenes? The first thing that pops into her head is the avalanche in Force Majeure. Maybe not the cheeriest, but it definitely had her glued to her seat!

Meya Beziau

After studying intellectual property law at Sorbonne University and graduating with a Master's degree in cultural management, Meya joined Les Arcs, where she assists both the Film Department and the Audience Development.

Her favourite genre is psychological drama, such as Festen by Thomas Vinterberg, absolutely perfect for boosting the mood… if you like emotional rollercoasters. 

Her guilty pleasure? Zany comedies like Quo Vado? by Gennaro Nunziante, which crudely mocks stereotypes.

Her favourite villain is the Witch of the Waste in Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki. She had some sleepless nights when she was a child, and she can still shudder with horror thinking of it…

When it comes to fictional animals, she loves Rex in Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, voiced by Edward Norton.

Her favourite film sequence is the explosive Fight Club’s finale, with the famous line "you met me at a very strange time in my life". But her favourite mountain scene is the one deep in the Arctic in Compartment Number 6, directed by Juho Kuosmanen, which marks the end of a wonderful journey.