May 8, 2026 8:50am PT

Monia Chokri to Preside Over Cannes Caméra d’Or Jury

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Courtesy Cannes Film Festival

Québécois actress, director, and screenwriter Monia Chokri will preside over the jury for the Cannes Film Festival‘s Caméra d’Or prize. The award is given to a first work across the official selection as well as in the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections.

Chokri, who broke out as an actress in Canadian auteur Denys Arcand’s “The Age of Darkness” and Xavier Dolan’s “Heartbeats,” made her directorial debut in in 2019 with “A Brother’s Love,” which won Un Certain Regard’s Jury Cup de Coeur prize. That film was followed by “Babysitter” and “The Nature of Love” that was presented in Un Certain Regard in 2023 and won France’s César Award for best foreign film the following year.