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Jihane Bougrine is a film critic and journalist for Le Desk (Morocco) and Vogue Arabia. Closely connected to the Moroccan and African film scenes, she is a member of the selection committee of the Marrakech International Film Festival, where she has moderated numerous conversations with international filmmakers and actors such as Luca Guadagnino, Monica Bellucci, Nabil Ayouch and Viggo Mortensen. She began her career in 2012 by launching the Cahiers Week-end cultural supplement for Les ÉCO, later becoming editor-in-chief of VH Magazine, before contributing to the creation of Box Office Maroc. A member of FIPRESCI, she has been attending film festivals around the world for twenty years, with a critical approach attuned to cinema’s cultural and social impact.

Quebec-born Josée Deshaies studied Art History in Italy. 

Her passion for cinema led her to become a camera assistant. She met director Bertrand Bonello who entrusted her with the cinematography of his first feature SOMETHING ORGANIC, and later The PORNOGRAPHER, presented in Cannes in 2001. 

She has since worked as a cinematographer on around forty feature films - both narrative and documentary - in France and abroad. Across all sections, fifteen of her films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. 

In France, she was nominated for a César for HOUSE OF TOLERANCE and SAINT LAURENT, and for the Prix Lumières for SAINT LAURENT and THE BEAST. In Canada, she was nominated for Best Cinematography for Monia Chokri’s A BROTHER’S LOVE and BABYSITTER. 

In recent years, we saw her work in Ira Sachs’ PASSAGES, Bertrand Bonnello’s THE BEAST, and Thierry de Peretti’s IN HIS OWN IMAGE. She has just completed Harris Dickinson’s first feature URCHIN, and is currently working in Italy on her own long-term project.

Yulia Evina Bhara is a producer and the founder of KawanKawan Media, a production company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.  She has produced among others: SOLO, SOLITUDE (Locarno FF 2016) by Yosep Anggi Noen, THE SCIENCE OF FICTIONS (Locarno FF 2019) by Yosep Anggi Noen, YOU AND I by Fanny Chotimah (CPH: DOX  FF 2020), WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE by Carlo Francisco Manatad (Toronto FF 2021), STONE TURTLE by Woo Ming Jin ( Locarno FF 2022), AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Makbul Mubarak (Venice FF 2022), TIGER STRIPES by Amanda Nell Eu (Cannes Critics Week 2023), DREAMING AND DYING by Nelson Yeo (Locarno FF 2023), LAST SHADOW AT THE FIRST LIGHT by Nicole Midori Woodford (San Sebastian FF 2023), 24 HOURS WITH GASPAR by Yosep Anggi Noen (Busan FF 2023), DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY by Duong Dieu Linh (Venice Critics Week 2024), TALE OF THE LAND by Loeloe Hendra (Busan FF 2024) and most recently ‘RENOIR’ by Chie Hayakawa. She was chosen as one of Variety Internationals’s Impactful Women in 2023.

Daniel Kaluuya is an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning actor, writer, producer and director. His credits include THE KITCHEN which Kaluuya co-directed, co-wrote and produced for Netflix, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, Jordan Peele’s GET OUT and NOPE, WIDOWS, SICARIO, QUEEN & SLIM, BLACK PANTHER and SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER VERSE. Next up, he is producing is a live-action BARNEY movie under his 59% Productions banner, in partnership with Mattel.