En 2007, Sandrine Bonnaire fait ses premiers pas en tant que réalisatrice avec un documentaire Elle s’appelle Sabine, sur sa sœur cadette autiste, qui fait l’événement à Cannes dans la sélection de la Quinzaine des réalisateurs (Prix Fipresci Cannes 2007 et Prix du Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma et des films de télévisions 2008). En 2015, elle donne suite à la forme documentaire en livrant Ce que le temps a donné à l’homme, qui brosse le portrait intimiste du chanteur Jacques Higelin.

Remarquée par Maurice Pialat, Sandrine Bonnaire fait ses débuts d'actrice à l'âge de seize ans en incarnant Suzanne, l'héroïne d'A nos amours. Cette collaboration se poursuit en 1985 avec Police et en 1987 avec Sous le soleil de Satan, Palme d'Or à Cannes. Entre temps, elle a obtenu un César pour le rôle de Mona dans Sans toit ni loi d'Agnès Varda. Elle inspire la plupart des grands metteurs en scène français : Téchiné (Les Innocents, 1987), Sautet (Quelques jours avec moi, 1988), Leconte (Monsieur Hire, 1989 et Confidences trop intimes, 2004), Depardon (La Captive du désert, 1990), Rivette (Jeanne la Pucelle, 1994 et Secret Défense, 1998), Chabrol (La Cérémonie, 1995, Prix d'interprétation féminine au festival de Venise). En 2012, Sandrine Bonnaire revient sur la Croisette avec une fiction cette fois, J’enrage de son absence, présentée dans le cadre de la Semaine de la critique.

Deputy Director of the Cineteca del Friuli, historian and archivist, he is also in charge of the selection of the Cannes Film Festival in Italy.

He regularly takes part in international festivals and writes for Positif (Paris) and The International Film Guide (London). Lecturer at the Louvre Museum and the Pompidou Centre, he has written extensively about filmmakers.

A specialist in Asian cinema, as a screenwriter he regularly collaborates on documentary films for French television with Hubert Niogret.

Irène’s first cinematic role was in Louis Malle’s “Au Revoir les Enfants”.

She was then selected by Krzystzsof Kieslowski for “La Double Vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Véronique)” (Best Actress Award at the 1991 Cannes Festival). She also starred in Kieslowski’s “Trois Couleur Rouge (Three Colors: Red)” (’93 Official Selection). She has worked with talented directors throughout her international career, including: Michelangelo Antonioni (“Beyond the Clouds”), Hugh Hudson (“My Life So Far”), Oliver Parker (“Othello”), Paul Auster (“The Inner Life”), Stuart Beird (“U.S. Marshals”) and Jonathan Nossiter (“Rio Sex Comedy”).

She returned to Cannes with the Serges Lepeyron film “Marcorelle n’est pas Coupable (L’Affaire Marcorelle)” and reunited with Claude Lelouch for “Salaud on t’aime”, before appearing in Theo Angelopoulos’ last film “Dust of Time”. This year she has worked with Paul Schrader, Ernesto Contreras, Arnaud Viard and Tran Anh Hung.

She has also had a long career in theatre and has pursued challenging projects in France and London. Currently: “La Métamorphose Version Androide” (by Oriza Hirata), a Franco-Japanese co-production.

He is the co-creative director and programmer for the True/False Film Fest (Columbia, Missouri, USA) which seeks to re-imagine reality through creative nonfiction.
He is also the former programmer for Ragtag Cinema, an independent arthouse. Sturtz co-founded the Ragtag Film Society in 1998 andTrue/False in 2004.
He co-directed the short film Dear Valued Guests with Jarred Alterman about the last days of the Regency Downtown Hotel. Additionally he’s made forays into non-film related ventures: helping to start the Wild Folk learning community and serving on the Columbia City Council. In 2014, Paul Sturtz was named as one of 40 people or companies in the inaugural “Indiewire Influencers” list, described as “visionaries that are changing the course of film”.

Iryna Tsilyk is Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and screenwriter. She has directed several fiction and documentary films. Her last film The Earth Is Blue as an Orange won the “Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary” at Sundance Film Festival 2020, as well as numerous other honors. The film has been officially selected to Berlinale film festival, IDFA “Best of Fest”, MoMA Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs and more than 100 other International film festivals. It will be released in France on June 8, 2022. At the moment, Tsilyk’s finishing her feature-length fiction film Rock. Paper. Grenade and is working on developing two new film projects. Moreover, Tsilyk is the author of 8 books published in Ukraine (poetry, prose, children books), some of her works were translated in several languages. During the years of Russo-Ukrainian war, Iryna has taken part in many different activities like literary readings, documentary shootings, tutoring for children etc. in the war zone in Donbas. Her recent poetry and films reflect this experience.

Began his career as a D.O.P and became one of Israel leading cinematographers.
During his career, he shot award winning feature films and documentaries.

His works as director includes The Gatekeepers, feature length documentary (best documentary on the 2012 Academy Awards, best nonfiction film of 2012 by the National Society of Film Critics, best documentary by the LA Film Critic, Cinema for Peace Award Berlin 2013…) ; Sharon, feature length documentary (Official program «panorama» at the 58th Berlin Film Festival) ; The Ros; To Be Mayumana ; Under Cover ; Occupational hazard

He is currently working on several feature length documentaries : The Human Factor, Corridors of Power, Dagan (the life story of Mossad head).

Scott Foundas is Chief Film Critic for Variety. Prior to joining Variety, he was Chief Film Critic for The Village Voice, where his writing was syndicated throughout the Village Voice Media network (including the L.A. Weekly).

In addition, he has contributed to the DGA Quarterly, Film Comment and The New York Times among numerous other publications.

As a programmer, Scott Foundas served three years as Associate Program Director for the Film Society of Lincoln Center (where he was also a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee) and has also been a special consultant to the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2010, he was named Critic of the Year at the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Entertainment Journalism Awards.

In 2013, a Spanish-language collection of his writing entitled “Time Stopped” was published by the Mar Del Plata Film Festival in Argentina.

Le Jury de l’Œil d’or, présidé par Yolande Zauberman et composé de Romane Bohringer, Eric Caravaca, Ross McElwee et Ivàn Giroud, a décerné deux prix ex æquo ce samedi 25 mai. « Les deux films que nous avons primés parlent d’amour, d’exil, de résistance et de la joie de désobéir ensemble. »    

D’abord un premier film fort et courageux fait par une jeune femme : un choc. Des images d’une puissance rare. L’histoire d’un grand amour entre un homme et une femme, une lettre ouverte à leur enfant, le quotidien d’un jeune chirurgien héroïque et de son équipe face à l’enfer de la guerre en Syrie,

For Sama de Waad Al Kateab et Edward Watts

Royaume-Uni, Etats-Unis – 1h35 – SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE / SÉANCES SPÉCIALES 
Channel 4 News – ITN Productions – Channel 4 – PBS Frontline
PBS Distribution

Le deuxième Œil d’or ex æquo va à un cinéaste, un homme en exil depuis près de 50 ans. Il n’a eu de cesse à travers son œuvre de célébrer l’élan amoureux des Chiliens pour la liberté et la justice sociale, 

La Cordillera de los sueños de Patricio Guzmán

France, Chili – 1h25 – SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE / SÉANCES SPÉCIALES
Atacama Productions, Arte France, Market Chile, Sampek Productions
Pyramide Distribution

L’Œil d’or – Le Prix du documentaire a été créé en 2015 par la Scam avec la complicité du Festival de Cannes, en partenariat avec l’Ina et avec le soutien d’Audiens. Les prix sont dotés de 5000 euros chacun.

Pour les précédentes éditions, le prix a déjà récompensé : Stefano Savona pour Samouni Road (France, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, 2018) ; Agnès Varda et JR pour Visages, Villages (France, Sélection Officielle, 2017) ; Eryk Rocha pour Cinema Novo (Brésil, Cannes Classics, 2016) ; Marcia Allende Tambutti pour Allende mi abuelo Allende (Chili, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, 2015).


contacts presse

Florence Narozny / Clarisse André́ – florence.narozny@wanadoo.fr  – T:+33(0)6 86 50 24 51

Pierre Deladonchamps was noticed in 2013 in L’Inconnu du Lac by Alain Guiraudie, which earned him the César for Most Promising Actor in 2014. After a nomination in 2017 for Best Actor César for Philippe Lioret’s Le Fils de Jean, he plays alongside André Téchiné in Nos Années Folles the role of a soldier deserter who cross-dresses. In 2018 he attends Cannes Festival with two feature films: Plaire, aimer et courir vite by Christophe Honoré in the official selection and Les Chatouilles by Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer in the category Un Certain Regard. In 2021, the actor delivers a memorable performance as a serial killer in Vaurien by Peter Dourountzis (Cannes 2020 label) and plays the famous 19th century builder’s precious ally in Eiffel by Martin Bourboulon. He will soon be appearing in Hawaii, a comedy by Mélissa Drigeard, as well as in an adaptation of Antoine Leiris’ novel « Vous n’aurez pas ma haine« .