The Revelation Jury

The Rev­e­la­tion Jury of the 51^st Deauville Film Festival

To the Rev­e­la­tion Jury, we entrust the mis­sion of award­ing the prize of all pos­si­bil­i­ties and mak­ing a bet on the future. The Rev­e­la­tion Prize is a space of free­dom where the future of the world and that of cin­e­ma is dreamt. At the Rev­e­la­tion, there’s no such thing as the best, only the val­ues of youth, choice and discovery.

To meet this chal­lenge, we’ve brought togeth­er four artists around actor, direc­tor and pro­duc­er Jean-Pas­cal Zadi, who, after direct­ing numer­ous music videos, TV series, films and doc­u­men­taries, is mak­ing a splash on the young French cin­e­ma scene with his first fea­ture film, Sim­ply Black, in which he also stars, and for which he was award­ed the César Award for Most Promis­ing Actor in 2021. Michel Haz­anavi­cius, Ludovic and Zoran Boukher­ma, Quentin Dupieux, Laeti­tia Dosch, Gilles Lel­louche… all call on his act­ing tal­ents. But his all-round cre­ativ­i­ty takes him from tele­vi­sion, with his series Rep­re­sent, to cin­e­ma, with his lat­est African-futur­is­tic pro­duc­tion, Le Grand Déplace­ment.

At her side is the actress Suzy Bem­ba, dis­cov­ered in the series L’Opéra, where she played a young dancer along­side Ari­ane Labed. But it was her roles in Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos’ Poor Things and Antho­ny Chen’s Drift that pro­pelled her onto the inter­na­tion­al scene in 2023. The fol­low­ing year, she was one of the César Acad­e­my’s Rev­e­la­tions and rep­re­sent­ed France at the Shoot­ing Stars in Berlin. She will soon be seen in Cliffhang­er, the reboot of the epony­mous Amer­i­can thriller direct­ed by Jaume Col­let-Ser­ra and filmed in the Alps.

Julien Colon­na, film­mak­er, screen­writer and pho­tog­ra­ph­er, who, after hav­ing cut his teeth in short films and screen­writ­ing, estab­lished him­self as a lead­ing direc­tor with his first fea­ture film, The King­dom, select­ed at the Fes­ti­val de Cannes in 2024, and shot entire­ly in Cor­si­ca with most­ly non-pro­fes­sion­al actors. Julien Colon­na is cur­rent­ly work­ing on sev­er­al projects between France and the Unit­ed States.

They’ll be joined by Bilal Has­sani, singer-song­writer, actor, chore­o­g­ra­ph­er and pro­duc­er, sym­bol of a new gen­er­a­tion that holds high the val­ues of tol­er­ance, accep­tance, self-love and respect for all. In 2019, after rep­re­sent­ing France at Euro­vi­sion with his song “Roi”, he released his debut album, “King­dom”, and won the NRJ Music Award for Fran­coph­o­ne Rev­e­la­tion of the Year. In 2020, his video clip for the sin­gle “Fais le vide” won the MTV France Music Video of the Year. He made his film debut in 2024 in the fea­ture film Queens of Dra­ma direct­ed by Alex­is Lan­glois. In ear­ly 2026, he will star in Lau­rent Miche­li’s Nino dans la nuit.

Last but not least, Anaïde Rozam, anoth­er young artist of her time, revealed on Insta­gram thanks to her quirky video pastilles, was seen in Jacques Audi­ard’s Paris, 13^th Dis­trict, then noticed in the “Culte”, “Iris” and “Trash” series. She sings, acts and impos­es her unique ener­gy in every reg­is­ter, whether as the hero­ine of Thomas Ngi­jol’s short for­mat Pour 1 euro, j’é­coute vos prob­lèmes, in Carine May and Hakim Zouhani’s La Cour des mir­a­cles or in Mar­tin Jau­vat’s lat­est film Baise-en-Ville, pre­sent­ed at this year’s Fes­ti­val de Cannes.

The five mem­bers of the Rev­e­la­tion Jury will award the Rev­e­la­tion Prize at the clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny on Sep­tem­ber 13. The selec­tion of films in Com­pe­ti­tion will be announced in August.