Leïla Bekhti to Lead Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury
French actress Leïla Bekhti has been announced as the president of the Un Certain Regard jury at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. She will oversee the selection and awards for the festival's second most important competition.
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Leïla Bekhti to Preside Over Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Jury
French actress Leïla Bekhti is set to preside over the Un Certain Regard jury at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Bekhti — a Cannes regular who broke out in Jacques Audiard’s “A Prophet” and won the Cesar award for most promising actress in 2011 for “All that Glitters” — will be joined on the jury by Senegalese […]
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French actress Leïla Bekhti has been announced as President of the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard Jury. She will be joined by Senegalese producer Angèle Diabang, Lebanon’s composer Khaled Mouzanar, Italy’s director Laura Samani, and France’s director Thomas Cailley. Bekhti follows in the footsteps of UK filmmaker Molly Manning Walker in 2025 whose jury awarded Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes the […]
By Melanie Goodfellow
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