PROGRAM 2025

Feature Competition

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EMILIA PÉREZ

(EMILIA PÉREZ)
Out of Competition
Director: Jacques Audiard
18+
Duration:132 min
Year: 2024
Country: France / Belgium / Mexico
Genre: Musical / Thriller

AWARDS
Jury Prize / Cannes Film Festival
Best Actress (Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz)  Best Soundtrack, Best Composer / Cannes Film Festival
AFI Award, Movie of the Year / American Film Institute Awards
Best European Director, Best Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón) / European Film Awards
Audience Award / Cartagena International Film Festival
Best Comedy or Musical, Best Non-English Language Film, Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldana), Best Song (“El Mal”)  / Golden Globes 2025

NOMINATIONS
Palme d'Or / Cannes Film Festival
Queer Palm / Cannes Film Festival
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldana), Best Soundtrack, Best Song / Critics' Choice Awards
Best Picture / San Sebastian Film Festival
Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Performance by a Female Actor (Karla Sofía Gascón) / Golden Globes 2025

SYNOPSIS
Overqualified and undervalued, Rita (Zoe Zaldana) is a lawyer at a large firm that is more interested in getting criminals out of trouble than in bringing them to justice. One day, an unexpected opportunity arises when the leader of the cartel, Manitas (Karla Sofía Gascón), hires her to help him retire from his business and make a long-secret plan he’s been working on for years come true: to become the woman he has always dreamed of being.

JACQUES AUDIARD

BIOGRAPHY
Son of French director and dialogue writer Michel Audiard, Jacques Audiard is a French film-maker, screenwriter and former editor.
In 1994, he made his first film, See How They Fall (César for Best First Film) and A Self-Made Hero (Best Screenplay at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival). He went on to win several César awards, including three Césars for Best Director – in 2006 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped, in 2010 for A Prophet and in 2019 for The Sisters Brothers – and numerous prizes, including the Palme d’or at the 2015 Cannes Festival for Dheepan. He is a member of the 50/50 collective, which aims to promote gender equality and diversity in the film and audiovisual sector.