Leos Carax (Suresnes, France. 1960) made his debut with Boy Meets Girl (1984), winner of the Youth Award at Cannes. Next came Mauvais sang (1986), which gave him the Alfred Bauer Prize in Berlin, The Lovers on the Bridge (1991), Pola X (1999), Official Selection at Cannes, and one of the segments of the film Tokyo! (2008). In 2012 he once again competed in Cannes with Holy Motors, winning the Youth Award. His feature Annette (2021) garnered Best Director at Cannes and the César in the same category. The medium length It’s Not Me screened in the Cannes Premiere section. Special Guests 2024 Francis Ford Coppola Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Ava DuVernay Special Guests in Other Editions Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Barry Jenkins Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda J. M. Coetzee Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
Leos Carax (Suresnes, France. 1960) made his debut with Boy Meets Girl (1984), winner of the Youth Award at Cannes. Next came Mauvais sang (1986), which gave him the Alfred Bauer Prize in Berlin, The Lovers on the Bridge (1991), Pola X (1999), Official Selection at Cannes, and one of the segments of the film Tokyo! (2008). In 2012 he once again competed in Cannes with Holy Motors, winning the Youth Award. His feature Annette (2021) garnered Best Director at Cannes and the César in the same category. The medium length It’s Not Me screened in the Cannes Premiere section.
