Québécois actress, director, and screenwriter Monia Chokri will preside over the jury for the Cannes Film Festival‘s Caméra d’Or prize. The award is given to a first work across the official selection as well as in the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections.
Chokri, who broke out as an actress in Canadian auteur Denys Arcand’s “The Age of Darkness” and Xavier Dolan’s “Heartbeats,” made her directorial debut in in 2019 with “A Brother’s Love,” which won Un Certain Regard’s Jury Cup de Coeur prize. That film was followed by “Babysitter” and “The Nature of Love” that was presented in Un Certain Regard in 2023 and won France’s César Award for best foreign film the following year.
“A debut film is a dizzying experience, a defining moment when the soul seeks its form in images,” Chokri said in a statement. “It is a second birth — the awakening of the artist within. An act of truth, it exposes our fragility. And the more the film reveals itself to the world, the more power it gains. It is the rare freedom of being fully oneself,” she added.
Monia Chokri will be joined on the Caméra d’Or jury panel by four members selected from the associations that make up the Caméra d’Or jury each year: the French Association of Cinematographers, the French Union of Film Critics, the Society of Film Directors, and the Federation of the Film, Audiovisual, and Multimedia Industries. They are: cinematographer Michel Benjamin, film critic Cédric Coppola, director and screenwriter Marine Francen, and Christophe Massie, deputy CEO of Eclair by Netgem.
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