Consultants & experts

Didar Domehri founded Maneki Films in 2009, recipient of the IFCIC Award for Best Young Independent Production Company in 2017, and later launched Maneki Stories, dedicated to television series Former Head of International Sales at Films Distribution/Playtime, Domehri currently serves as President of the CNC Short Film Development Programme, Vice-President of Unifrance’s Feature Film Commission, a member of the SPI, and a group leader at EAVE.

She has produced and co-produced more than 25 feature films by directors including Eva Husson, Erige Sehiri, Laurent Cantet, Alex Lutz, Santiago Mitre, Hlynur Pálmason, and Karim Aïnouz. Many of these films have premiered at major international festivals, including Cannes, Venice, and TIFF. Domehri regularly serves on major festival juries and expert committees, including La Semaine de la Critique, the CNC’s Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, La Cinéfondation, and Qumra. In 2026, she produced A Girl Unknown by ZOU Jing, awarded with the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution as well as the FIPRESCI Prize at Semaine de la Critique.

Léa Mysius graduated from La Fémis screenwriting department in 2014. She directed three award-winning short films selected for a number of festivals: Cadavre exquis, Les Oiseaux-tonnerre, selected in 2014 for the Cannes Cinéfondation award, and L’Ile jaune co-directed with Paul Guilhaume. Ava, her first feature film was in competition at the 2017 Semaine de la Critique in Cannes where it won the SACD prize. She has also written with other directors; she wrote Les Fantômes d’Ismaël with Arnaud Desplechin, the film opened the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. In 2018, she worked with André Téchiné and co-wrote Les Ennemis, then she joined again Arnaud Desplechin for Roubaix – Une lumière and she is currently working with Claire Denis on her new screenplay. Meanwhile, Léa is writing her second feature film.

Zsuzsi started to work as head of acquisition and programming for an independent cinema and distribution company (Cirko Film) in Budapest in 2000. In 2009 together with Kornel Mundruczo and Viktoria Petranyi they opened Szuez Film (and Kino theatre) where she also become head of acquisition. After 10 years she become the president of the board at Cirko Film but also worked as an advisor for many Hungarian independent productions about worldwide festival and distribution strategy. In the beginning of 2012 she moved to Cologne to start as head of acquisition at The Match Factory.