Selection Committees

Chloé Caye founded and became editor-in-chief of the media Culture aux Trousses, which now counts ten editors. In 2022, she gratuited with a Master's degree in cinema and audiovisual from the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. Then, she began writing for Positif and became a commentor for the TV programme Le Cercle on Canal +. In 2024, she has been awarded with the Young Critics Prize from the French Union of Film Critics. Chloé Caye programmes and runs several movie club in Paris.

Marilou Duponchel is a film critic for Les Inrockuptibles and Trois Couleurs. She has served on the short and feature film committees of La Semaine de la Critique and was a member of the Queer Palm jury in 2022. In the past, she programmed and presented a film club dedicated to short films, Ciné-Court des Inrocks. She now writes for the magazine Bref, which is dedicated to this format.

A cinephile from an early age and raised on Starfix magazine, Laurent Hérin first worked in communications in Paris before moving to Bastia in 2004 as a graphic designer and layout artist. He quickly began freelancing for the island's press (CorseNetInfos, Settimana, Corse Matin) and writing radio columns for Ici-RCFM. After serving as coordinator and then programmer for the Lama Film Festival for four years, he went on to programme Nuits Med, advise Cinetica, and participate in the reading committee for the Casell'arte writing residency, all while continuing to devour films in theatres.

A film journalist (Arte Magazine, Trois Couleurs, CitizenK, etc.) for some fifteen years and a member of the selection committees of several festivals, Laura Pertuy also runs film education workshops and translates for the press, academia and publishing. As administrator of Collectif 50/50, she has worked to promote French-language films made by women and has launched a project to reflect on the challenges of programming in the post-#MeToo era.

A graduate of CELSA, Gautier Roos worked for Ciné+ and France Télévisions before joining INA in 2017, first as a video content manager, then as an editor for the Madelen streaming platform. There, he unearths gems from our audiovisual heritage. A film journalist who has worked for various media outlets (Chaos Reign, Gonzaï, So Film, Trois Couleurs), he is a member of the jury for the French Film Critics' Union every year and regularly attends screenings at the Saint-André des Arts, the Reflet Médicis, the Étrange Festival and the Maison Gainsbourg (Paris). In 2024, he will participate in the reboot of Starfix magazine for a special issue, and will appear in various documentaries devoted to figures from cinema and television (François Chalais, Pierre Koralnik, etc.).

Esther Brejon is a journalist and film critic. A freelancer for the programme "Forever cinéma" on Ciné+, she writes regularly for Rockyrama and Sorociné. She created and hosted the podcast "Silence elles tournent" on female directors in the history of cinema.

Journalist and film critic for TroisCouleurs and Sofilm magazines, Tristan Brossat was editor-in-chief and programmer for the film media outlet mk2 Curiosity, after writing for Le Monde and producing features for the Canal+ programme "Viva Cinéma". He is currently writing a series of investigative articles on important French films that have fallen into obscurity. He also hosts film clubs, debates and contemporary and heritage film screenings throughout France.

After working for La Maison du Film, Écran Total magazine, and Canal+'s dubbing department, Grégory Coutaut started out as a film critic for FilmDeCulte. In 2017, he co-founded the online magazine LePolyester with Nicolas Bardot, of which he is co-editor-in-chief. Until 2021, he chaired Aloha Distribution, which enables international documentaries to be released in French theaters. In 2022, he became the artistic advisor of the Director's Fortnight's short film selection committee.

Raphaëlle Pireyre is a film critic for the magazines AOC, Trois couleurs, and Bref. Since September 2024, she has been a contributor to Midis on France Culture. From 2020 to 2022, she wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma. She is also a member of the Arte Cinéma reading committee and the short film committee of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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