French actress Leila Bekhti will be jury president for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.
Bekhti will be joined by jurors Angele Diabang, a producer from Senegal; Lebanese composer Khaled Mouzanar; Italian director Laura Samani; and French director Thomas Cailley.
The Un Certain Regard section is part of the Cannes official selection. The jury typically awards prizes including the Un Certain Regard prize, a jury prize, and awards for best director, screenplay, actor and actress.
This year’s Un Certain Regard selection will open with Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, while titles in the section include Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo’s Ben’imana, the first ever film by a Rwandan director in Cannes official selection, and Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid starring Cara Delevingne and Diego Calva.
Bekhti first came to prominence for her role in Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2009. Her subsequent credits include Herve Mimran and Geraldine Nakache’s All That Glitters, for which she won the Cesar Award for most promising actress; Gilles Lellouche’s Sink Or Swim; and Joachim Lafosse’s The Restless.
“Working in cinema has taught me that movies are places of encounter with others, with oneself, with the world,” said Bekhti. “Discovering them alongside a jury, living this timeless experience, is both a responsibility and a joy.”
Last year’s Un Certain Regard jury was headed by UK filmmaker Molly Manning Walker, with Diego Cespedes’ The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo taking the top prize.
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