Jury & aWARDS
International
Radu Jude
Born in 1977 in Bucharest (Romania), Radu Jude started out as an assistant director mostly for foreign films shot in Romania, then directed several short films before moving on to feature films with The Happiest Girl in the World. He then made other feature films including Aferim!, Scarred Hearts, Uppercase Print etc. His latest feature film, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2021.Currently in post-production with the feature film Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.
Mariama Gueye
Mariama Gueye is a French actress. She took acting classes at the Court Florent and then went to the Laboratoire de lâActeur. She played in series such as La Smala sâen mĂȘle, Gloria and DrĂŽle, as well as in feature films, including Sous X and The Climb. She starred in two feature films that will be released in 2023, Les Meilleures and Le Marchand de sable.
Evgueni Galperine
Evgueni Galperine is a French composer of Russian and Ukrainian descent. He has lived in France since 1990. He has gained international fame thanks to the film music he wrote with his brother Sacha Galperine. He collaborated on some of the most remarkable film projects of recent years, including Faute d'Amour by Andrey Zviaguintsev, Scenes from a Marriage by Hagai Levy, L'ĂvĂ©nement by Audrey Diwan, GrĂące Ă Dieu by François Ozon, Baron Noir by Ziad Doueri, Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa, The Undoing by Susanne Bier, Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and JĂ©rĂ©my Trouilh, etc. Moreover, his compositions are regularly used in films, including Jacques Audiard's De Rouille et d'Os, Night Shyamalan's Split and Gary Ross' The Hunger Games, among others. In 2022, Evgueni released his first album of contemporary music with ECM and composed the music for Antoine Chevrolier's acclaimed series Oussekine, as well as for Damien Ounouri's French-Algerian film La DerniĂšre Reine, selected for the Venice Film Festival.
Déborah François
Déborah François was chosen to play Sonia in L'Enfant by the Dardenne brothers, which won the Palme d'Or in 2005, when she was just 17. She continued her career with Belgian and French directors, returning to Cannes in 2006 with La Tourneuse de Pages. In 2009, she won the César for Best New Actress for her role in Le Premier jour du reste de ta vie by Rémi Bezançon. She then went international, performing in English, Dutch and Spanish, and taking on a series of very different roles: renowned typist in Populaire, Hortense Cézanne in Cézanne et moi and poisoner in Fleur de Tonnerre. In 2022, she directed a short film, Mouton Noir, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2023, she co-wrote the screenplay for Mi Soledad Tiene Alas, a feature film to be released this summer in Spain.
Matthieu Donck
Passionate about the art of storytelling in all its forms, Matthieu Donck has made his mark on the Brussels art scene as a director, scriptwriter and comic strip co-author. He began his career as a director in 2004 with a short film, Rustine, and in 2012 he directed his first feature film, Torpedo, starring François Damiens. He then went on to direct two flagship series: La TrĂȘve and Des Gens Biens. He also helped write the screenplays for Parasol in 2016 and Mon Ket in 2018. His comic strip, Shrimp, was published in 2012 and tells the very funny story of a shrimp croquette cook. He also writes for the theatre Je te promets, which will be performed in Brussels theatres in 2022.
Directors' Week
Dinara Drukarova
Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Dinara Drukarova made her film debut at the age of 12 with Vitali Kanevski's film Bouge pas, meurs, ressuscite. The film won the âCamĂ©ra d'Orâ at the Cannes Festival in 1990.
She then went on to star in Alexei Balabanov's Des Monstres et Des Hommes, for which she was nominated for âBest Actressâ at the European Film Awards. Alongside acting, Dinara Drukarova began studying social sciences at St Petersburg University. In 2000, she decided to leave Russia and settle in France, where she continued her acting career. In 2003, her leading role in Julie Bertuccelli's film, Depuis qu'Otar est parti earned her a CĂ©sar nomination for Best Emerging Actress. In 2018 she moved into directing with the short film Ma branche toute fine. In 2020, she won a prize from the Fondation Gan pour le CinĂ©ma, and in 2021 she directed her first feature film, Grand Marin.
Bruno Nuytten
Born in 1945, Bruno Nuytten first experimented with underground cinema. Between 1969 and 1985, he was director of photography on more than 30 feature films with Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Berri and others.
From 1987 to 2001, he directed 3 feature films (Camille Claudel, Albert souffre, Passionnément) and a film for Arte (Jim, la nuit). For more than ten years he ran the Emergence actors' workshop with Tatiana Vialle. An image lecturer at lNSAS, director of the image department at FEMIS, and a joint lecturer at CNSAD-FEMIS, he accompanied 6 students from the Studio national des arts contemporains in 2017 and exhibited "Mille images pour Le Fresnoy", an installation that inaugurated his work as a photographer, which he has since exhibited in France and abroad.
Charlotte Vandermeersch
Charlotte Vandermeersch (born 1983) is a Belgian actress who performs on screen as well as on stage. She graduated in 2005 from the former Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp.
She writes for film and theatre, sings and directs. She acted in several shorts as well as in feature films and has been omnipresent in the Belgian television and film landscape. She also worked with many different theatre companies. In 2011, she wrote a version of the screenplay of The Broken Circle Breakdown with her partner Felix van Groeningen. Their production company, Rufus Films, was named after their son. In 2022, they presented their co-written and co-directed film The Eight Mountains, in Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Jury Prize.
Laurent Capelluto
Laurent Capelluto has worked in film with, among others, Arnaud Desplechin (Un Conte de Noël, nominated for a César for Best Newcomer), Philippe Blasband, Emmanuel Salinger, Michaël Haneke, JérÎme Bonnell, Kore-Eda and Pierre Salvadori. He was awarded the Magritte for Best Supporting Actor in 2014 and 2016.
For the past 20 years, he has pursued a fascinating collaboration with Dominique Serron and his Infini Théùtre, which has enabled him to tackle Shakespeare, Nabokov, Marivaux, Gozzi, Genet, Chekhov, Corneille and MoliÚre. On other Belgian and French stages, he has acted in or directed contemporary authors such as Marius von Mayenburg, Anja Hilling and Lars Noren.
He is Siriani in the series Zone Blanche, and Mathieu, the pilot, in Into the Night on Netflix.
National
Olivier Pierre
Born in Marseille, Olivier Pierre was assistant programmer at the Cinémas des Musées de Marseille from 1997 to 2000.
From 2001 to 2019, he was artistic director of the JournĂ©es cinĂ©matographiques dionysiennes at L'Ăcran cinema in Saint-Denis. In 2001, he joined the FIDMarseille selection committee. Since 2005, he has also been artistic advisor to the TĂŒbingen-Stuttgart International Francophone Film Festival and, from 2014 to 2021, to the La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival. Since 2019, he has been in charge of pre-selection for the Films en cours section at Entrevues Belfort. He was artistic advisor for France at the IFFR from 2007 to 2020, and was appointed programmer for French-speaking countries in 2021.
Elsa Charbit
After working for 10 years in the Cultural Action Department of the CinémathÚque française, in 2015 Elsa Charbit became director of the Brive Film Festival - Rencontres internationales du moyen métrage, created in 2004 by the Société des réalisatrices et réalisateurs de films (SRF). From 2019 to 2021, she was the artistic director of Entrevues - Festival international du film de Belfort, created in 1986 by Janine Bazin and dedicated to 1st, 2nd and 3rd short and feature films. She is currently a member of the selection committee for the Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes.
Arnaud Gourmelen
Born in Paris, Arnaud Gourmelen studied History before working for film festivals in programming departments (Brest, Biarritz, Pantin). In 2005, he became Head of programming of Angers Film festival -Premiers Plans- where he kept on discovering new filmmakers from all over Europe with the competition dedicated to student films, short films and debut long feature. Besides, he curated of a lot of retrospectives dedicated to KaurismÀki, Pasolini, Schroeder, Moretti, Melville, Varda, Zviaguintsev, Boorman⊠From 2011 to 2018, he worked as a programmer for the Directors Fortnight (Cannes film festival), and developed since 2006 the Angers Workshop. He works also as an international consultant and program delegate for several international festivals (Karlovy Vary, Zurich).
Jury FIPRESCI
Antti Selkokari
Antti Selkokari lives in Helsinki. Selkokari has worked as a film critic for daily newspapers, radio and tv and weekly magazines, for almost 40 years. Now he contributes to an online publication Kulttuuritoimitus.fi. When not in cinema he enjoys tending allotment garden patch with family and friends.
Selkokari used to chair the Finnish branch of Fipresci from the 1990s to 2010s.
Juliette Goudot
Born in Paris in 1978, Juliette Goudot is a journalist and film critic based in Brussels.
She coordinates the cinema pages of the magazines Moustique and GAEL. On the radio (La PremiĂšre, RTBF) she created the H.E.R.O.Ă.N.E.S series (for the programme Entrez sans frapper) and contributes to the "En toutes lettres" column (for Dans quel monde on vit). She has written a documentary (Un pilote dans l'Histoire, History channel) and a novel (La TraversĂ©e de Tanger, Aden ed). She occasionally collaborates on screenplays (Damien Odoul's La Peur, Prix Jean Vigo 2015; Joachim Lafosse's Les Intranquilles, Official Competition Selection Cannes Festival 2021) and regularly moderates debates on cinema.
Margarita Chapatte
Margarita Chapatte lives in Barcelona and co-leads the veteran weekly radio film programme âLa Claquetaâ, broadcasted nationally by âRadio Marcaâ in Spain. She also is her regular correspondent at all major Spanish film festivals, and often travels abroad for offering her special touch in reporting on diverse international ones for the last 36 years.
Margarita has a long career as a film specialist at the Spanish radio sphere, and as writer and collaborator in diverse film magazines such as âCine y MĂĄsâ or âInterFilmsâ, apart for having been a staff writer member at press agency âFax Pressâ for 4 years and a collaborator for the most popular cinema TV programme in Catalonia, âInformatiu Cinemaâ.
Young European Jury
Carla Spodex
France
Arnaud Huard
Belgium
Siria Falleroni
Italy
Meritxell Blanco
Spain
Ălmos KristĂłf
Hungary
Professional Jury
Philippe Vandendriessche
Sound engineer
Charlotte Marchal
Director of Photography
Julie Naas
Editor
BRIFF AWARDS 2023
INTERNATIONAL
COMPETITION
GRAND PRIX: 11.000âŹ
2.500⏠for the distributor or the person holding the rights for the filmâs distribution offered by Circles Group*
1.500⏠for the film offered by Circles Group
2.000⏠offered by La Libre Belgique & 5.000⏠offered by De Standaard
for the purchase of media advertising space as part of the promotion of the film*
JURY PRIZE: 8.500âŹ
1.500⏠for the film offered by Circles Group
2.000⏠offered by La Libre Belgique & 5.000 offered by De Standaard for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film*
AUDIENCE AWARD: 3.500âŹ
FOR ONE FILM EITHER IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OR IN THE DIRECTORSâ WEEK COMPETITION
1.500⏠for the film production company
2.000⏠offered by La Libre Belgique for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film*
DIRECTORS' WEEK
COMPETITION
GRAND PRIX: 9.500âŹ
2.500⏠for the director offered by Brussels Capital Region
2.000⏠offered by La Libre Belgique & 5.000 offered by De Standaard for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film*
JURY PRIZE: 6.000âŹ
1.000⏠for the director offered by CinéFemme
5.000⏠offered by De Standaard for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film*
AUDIENCE AWARD: 3.500âŹ
FOR ONE FILM EITHER IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OR IN THE DIRECTORSâ WEEK COMPETITION
1.500⏠for the film
2.000⏠offered by La Libre Belgique for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film*
EURPEAN YOUNG JURY AWARD
Honorary Award
NATIONAL
COMPETITION
GRAND PRIX: 10.000âŹ
1.500⏠offered by BCOH for the distributor, or the person holding the rights for the filmâs distribution*
1.500⏠offered by BCOH for the film
2.000⏠offered by La Libre Belgique & 5.000⏠offered by De Standaard
for the purchase of media advertising space as part of the promotion of the film*
AUDIENCE AWARD: 4.000âŹ
1.000⏠for the distributor or the person holding the rights for the filmâs distribution*
2.000⏠offered by La Libre Belgique for the purchase of media advertising space as part of the promotion of the film*
âŹ1.000 for the film the film production company
BEST ACTRESS & BEST ACTOR AWARD: âŹ1.500
each offered by Playright
JURY PRIZE: 6.500âŹ
1.500 offered by the Cultural Department of the City of Brussels
5.000 offered by De Standaard
BEST EDITING AWARD (in collaboration with Bemontage)
One-year license for Media Composer (Avid) & one audio interface MBOX Studio offered by Diginet + âŹ1.000 offered by SLM Media
BEST SOUND AWARD
âŹ1.000 to the sound department
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD (in collaboration with the Belgian Society of Cinematographers)
Services for an amount of âŹ3.000 offered by Eye-Lite
TV BROADCASTING RIGHTS
10.000⏠in TV broadcasting rights by RTBF*
5.000⏠in TV broadcasting rights by BeTV*
FIPRESCI AWARD
FOR ONE FILM EITHER IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OR IN THE DIRECTORSâ WEEK COMPETITION
Honorary award
*For a film which will be distributed in Belgium