The Festival
news third guest of honor
November 2, 2026
Léa Drucker, third Guest of Honor of the 18th edition
The Festival is proud to welcome Léa Drucker as one of its Guests of Honour!
Actress Léa Drucker is our Guest of Honour this year at Les Arcs Film Festival. She will lead a special masterclass, offering an opportunity to share her experiences and discuss what shapes her relationship with cinema. ✨
Trained at Véra Gregh and ENSATT, Léa Drucker began her acting career in theatre, performing under the direction of Benno Besson, Roger Hanin, and later Zabou Breitman, Macial Di Fonzo Bo, Édouard Baer, Bernard Murat, Claudia Stavisky, Hans Peter Cloos, Jean-Marie Besset, Didier Long, Michel Fau, Agnès Jaoui, Alain Françon, among others. She has been nominated for the Molières Awards several times.
She made her big-screen debut in Philippe Galland's feature film La Thune. She subsequently appeared in films by Cédric Klapisch, Antoine de Caunes, Julien Rambaldi, Mathieu Amalric and others.
In 2007, she won the Crystal Globe Award for Best Actress for her role in Zabou Breitman's L'homme de sa vie. In 2019, she received the César Award for Best Actress for her performance in Xavier Legrand's Custody (Jusqu'à la garde), a film selected for the Venice Film Festival. The short film on which it was based won the César Award for Best Short Film in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards that same year.
Since then, she has worked with directors including Olivier Ayache-Vidal, Agnès Jaoui, Nadav Lapid (whose film Synonyms won the Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival), Filippo Meneghetti, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Julien Rambaldi, Jérôme Bonnell, Quentin Dupieux, Lukas Dhont (for Close, winner of the Grand Prix at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival), Catherine Breillat (in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival), Pascal Bonitzer, Michel Leclerc, Laura Wandel, Dominik Moll (whose film Case 137 was selected in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and for which she won the 2025 César Award for Best Actress), Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (in competition at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival), Gustave Kervern (winner of the 2026 Jean Vigo Prize and the 2026 Golden Valois), Thomas Lilti, Simon Helloco and Carine Tardieu.
On television, she notably played the heroine's mother in Magaly Richard-Serrano's La Consolation. She also starred alongside Gabriel Byrne in the three-season series The War of the Worlds, directed by Richard Clark, Gilles Coulier and Ben A. Williams, among others. In 2025, she won the Best Actress Award at Séries Mania for her performance in Sous Contrôle, directed by Erwan Le Duc.
