Photo by Roch Armando, source: Cannes Film Festival
Argentine actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart has been announced as one of the five jury members for this year’s Un Certain Regard competition at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The jury will be presided over by British director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, joined by French-Swiss director and screenwriter Louise Courvoisier, Vanja Kaludjercic, director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Italian director, producer, and screenwriter Roberto Minervini.
Un Certain Regard (French for “A Certain Glance”) is part of the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival and takes place in the Salle Debussy, parallel to the main competition for the Palme d’Or. Created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, the section showcases around 20 films each year, known for their distinctive style and unconventional narratives, often by emerging voices seeking international recognition.
Since 1998, the Prix Un Certain Regard has been awarded to support innovative and daring cinema. The prize includes a grant for French distribution, and since 2005, has been endowed with €30,000 by the Groupama GAN Foundation.
Pérez Biscayart first made a powerful impression at the Festival de Cannes in 2017 with his electrifying performance as an Act Up-Paris activist in Robin Campillo’s BPM (Beats per Minute), which won the Grand Prix. That same year, he also starred in Albert Dupontel’s See You Up There, based on Pierre Lemaitre’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel The Great Swindle.
An international presence on screen and stage, he has appeared in Persian Lessons by Vadim Perelman (2020), The Employer and the Employee by Manolo Nieto (2021), One Year, One Night by Isaki Lacuesta (2022), No Love Lost by Erwan Le Duc (2023), and My New Friends by André Téchiné (2024). In theater, he has collaborated with New York’s Wooster Group, Willem Dafoe’s experimental company, and starred in Ivo van Hove’s 2020 production of The Glass Menagerie. Most recently, he appeared in Luis Ortega’s Kill the Jockey.
The Un Certain Regard section will open on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, with Promised Sky by Tunisian director Erige Sehiri. The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will run May 13-24.
