Leïla Bekhti first came to the public’s attention in Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (2009), winner of the Festival de Cannes’ Grand Prix, and quickly established herself as an actress of rare intensity. Winner of the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2011 for All That Glitters by Hervé Mimran and Géraldine Nakache (2010), she has since pursued a free-spirited and daring career, moving across genres with talent. A regular at the Festival de Cannes, she has appeared in notable films such as Paris, je t’aime (2006), Radu Mihaileanu’s The Source (2011), Gilles Lellouche’s Sink or Swim (2018), and Joachim Lafosse’s The Restless (2021). Spanning comedy, drama, and thriller, she embodies deeply human characters, as in Kheiron’s All Three of Us (2015), Lucie Borleteau’s Perfect Nanny (2019), Jeanne Herry’s All Your Faces (2023), and Ken Scott’s Once Upon My Mother (2025). She will soon appear in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Changer l’eau des fleurs.
Jury attendance
- President Un Certain Regard, 2026
- Member Un Certain Regard, 2012
