The names of the 32 contenders have been announced. Among them are the successors to Ella Rumpf and Raphaël Quenard, who will be honored in 2024.
All the names have been revealed. For its evening event on February 28, which will mark the 50th anniversary of thee edition of the ceremony, the Académie des César announced on Wednesday November 13 the list of 32 female and male revelations in the running. Chaired by Catherine Deneuve and directed by Cédric Klapisch, the evening will reward the new faces of the French film panorama.
This year, the César Academy’s Revelations committee, made up of 14 casting directors, nominated a total of 32 young people: 16 actresses and 16 actors for the official Revelations 2025 selection, formerly known as the “Espoirs” until the 2024 César Awards. For the occasion, filmmaker Vanessa Filho will showcase these new faces of French cinema in a short film to be unveiled on January 20 at the Soirée des Révélations.
Revelations 2025 – Actresses :
Selma Alaoui in Leaving at night
Louiza Aura in Drama Queens
Delphine Baril in Plastic guns
Maïwène Barthelemy in Twenty Gods
Lucie Charles-Alfred in Small hands
Médina Diarra in HLM Pussy
Lilith Grasmug in Foreign language
Josefa Heinsius in Foreign language
Malou Khebizi in Diamond in the rough
Nina Mélo in Black Tea(New Window)
Megan Northam in Rabia
Aloïse Sauvage in On a wire
Mélodie Simina in 37: the shadow and the prey
Anna Diakhere Thiandoum in Neither chains nor masters
Mallory Wanecque in Crazy Love
Souheila Yacoub in Planet B
Revelations 2025 – Actors :
Tawfeek Barhom in The Ghosts
Adam Bessa in The Ghosts
Theo Christine in To live, to die, to be reborn
Stefan Crepon in Making Of – The wonderful world of cinema
Malik Frikah in Crazy Love
Erwan Kepoa Falé in Eat the Night(New Window)
Félix Kysyl in Mercy
Pierre Lottin in En fanfare(New Window)
Ibrahima Mbaye in Neither chains nor masters
Louis Memmi in Borgo
Hamza Meziani in Six feet on the ground(New Window)
Diego Murgia in The Fantastic Three(New Window)
Charles Peccia Galletto in My inseparable
Guillaume Pottier in 37: the shadow and the prey
Abou Sangare in Souleymane’s Story
Michael Zindel in The Last of the Jews
The program also includes an honorary César for American actress Julia Roberts and director Costa-Gavras.
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