Winner of the 2020 César Award for Best Actress in Nicolas Pariser’s critical and box office hit Alice and the Mayor, Anaïs Demoustier has a rich and varied filmography including Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf, screened Out of Competition at the Festival de Cannes in 2003, Christophe Honoré’s The Beautiful Person (2008), Rebecca Zlotowski’s Dear Prudence (2010), Robert Guédiguian’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro, selected for Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes (2011), Małgorzata Szumo’s Elles and Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueyroux, for which she returned to the Festival de Cannes Out of Competition in 2012. She performed in Bertrand Tavernier’s The French Minister (2013), Pascale Ferran’s Bird People, selected for Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes in 2014, and Valérie Donzelli’s Marguerite & Julien, selected for the international Competition in 2015. In 2022, she starred in two films Out of Competition at the Festival de Cannes: Cédric Jimenez’s November and Quentin Dupieux’s Smoking Causes Coughing. We will see her soon in Katell Quillévéré’s Le temps d’aimer and again under the direction of Quentin Dupieux for his latest film Daaaaaali!.
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- President Caméra d'Or, 2023