GUESTS OF HONOR
ROMANE BOHRINGER
Actor and director, Romane Bohringer has been shaping a singular artistic path since the early 1990s. Revealed at a very young age, she trained largely on the stage before receiving the 1992 César Award for Most Promising Actress for Savage Nights by Cyril Collard. From that moment on, she resisted any form of typecasting, moving fluidly between contrasting roles. She appears just as convincingly in Total Eclipse alongside Leonardo DiCaprio as in Maïwenn’s All About Actresses, and on stage where she performs works by Shakespeare and Ionesco as well as texts by Annie Ernaux.
In 2018, Romane Bohringer took a decisive step into directing with L’Amour flou, co-directed with Philippe Rebbot, followed a few years later by Dites-lui que je l’aime.
Veerle Baetens
A leading figure of Belgian cinema, Veerle Baetens has, for more than fifteen years, embodied characters of rare intensity, where fragility meets strength and intimacy becomes a powerful narrative force.
Born in the province of Antwerp, she trained early in music and piano before turning to musical theatre at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound in Brussels. Her career quickly gained international recognition with Alabama Monroe by Felix van Groeningen, in which she delivered a deeply moving performance as Elise. Crowned with the César Award for Best Foreign Film, the film brought her numerous accolades, including Best Actress at the European Film Awards.
In 2023, Veerle Baetens reached a decisive milestone by moving into directing with Débâcle, an adaptation of Lize Spit’s novel of the same name.
STEVEN PRICE
Academy Award-winning British composer Steven Price has developed a deeply narrative approach to music for the screen, where each score emerges from a close dialogue with direction and dramaturgy.
After contributing to major Hollywood productions such as The Lord of the Rings and Batman Begins, Steven Price composed his first widely acclaimed original score for Attack the Block by Joe Cornish. His career gained international recognition with Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón, for which he created a soundtrack woven from electronic textures, organic pulses, and silence.
Conceived as a sensory extension of the film itself, this singular writing earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2014.
The composer then continued fruitful collaborations with filmmakers with distinctive artistic voices, such as David Ayer for Suicide Squad and Edgar Wright for Baby Driver and Last Night in Soho.