Script readings 2026

Born to a French-American father and an English mother, India Hair landed her first role in Raphaël Jacoulot’s Avant l'aube. In 2012, she won the Prix Lumière for Most Promising Actress and was nominated for a César for Most Promising Actress for Noémie Lvovsky’s Camille redouble. She went on to appear in Alain Guiraudie’s Rester vertical, Hubert Charuel’s Petit paysan, Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibules and Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry. In 2021, she was again nominated for the César for Most Promising Actress for her role in Olivier Babinet’s Poissonsexe. She subsequently appeared in the series Polar Park and Les Enfants sont rois, followed by Aude Léa Rapin’s Planète B, Julie Delpy’s Les Barbares and Emmanuel Mouret’s Trois amies, which was presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival. In 2025, she starred in Valentine Cadic’s Le Rendez-vous de l'été, presented at the Berlinale, and Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Jeunes mères, selected at Cannes. She will soon be appearing in Danielle Arbid and Lucie Borleteau’s series Singapura, and in the films Les Matins merveilleux by Avril Besson and Histoires parallèles by Asghar Farhadi.

Georgia Scalliet was a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 2017 to 2020. She won the Molière for Best Young Female Talent in The Three Sisters. On the big screen, she played the lead role in Gilles Legrand’s L’Odeur de la mandarine alongside Olivier Gourmet. She appeared in the series Les Sauvages by Rebecca Zlotowski, Parlement by Noé Debré and Le Monde n'existe pas by Erwan Le Duc. She also starred in Chronique d’une liaison passagère by Emmanuel Mouret and L'Accident de piano by Quentin Dupieux.

Harpo Guit co-directed with his brother Lenny Guit the short film La Brigade du kiff and the feature films Fils de plouc and Aimer perdre, released in 2025. He also appeared in Benoît Délépine’s Animal Totem with Samir Guesmi and, this year, in Graham Guit’s Plus Forts que le Diable with Melvil Poupaud, which premieres at Premiers Plans, and in Emmanuel Marre’s Notre salut.

Megan Northam is a French-British actress. She made her debut in Constance Meyer’s Robuste, before going on to appear in Mikhaël Hers’ Les Passagers de la nuit, Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan’s Fifi, Jérémy Clapin’s Pendant ce temps sur terre, Lucie Prost’s Fario and Mareike Engelhardt’s Rabia. She was nominated for the César for Most Promising Actress for this film. On television, she appeared alongside Aliocha Schneider in Cédric Klapisch’s Salade grecque and most recently in Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s Des vivants. This year, she will appear in Harris Dickinson’s Urchin, which will preview at Premiers Plans, Gaya Jiji's L’Étrangère and Fred Cavayé’s Les Misérables.

Genevan actor Arcadi Radeff starred in Ira Sachs’ Passages before playing the young man who discovers a painting by Egon Schiele in Pascal Bonitzer’s Le Tableau volé alongside Léa Drucker. That same year, he appeared in Jérémy Clapin’s Pendant ce temps sur la terre, Pablo Cotten and Joseph Rozé’s La Récréation de juillet, and Valentine Cadec’s Les Rendez-vous de l'été, winner of the 2025 Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film. He will soon be appearing in Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s film Les Yeux verts.

Clémence Poésy rose to international fame playing the French witch Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2. She also starred in Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe’s Le Grand Meaulnes, Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, Éric Forestier’s La Troisième Partie du monde, Philip Ridley’s Heartless, Denys Granier-Deferre's Pièce montée, Benoît Philippon’s Lullaby, Philippe Ramos’s Jeanne captive, Laetitia Masson’s GHB and Un été en hiver, Le Grand Jeu by Nicolas Pariser, Demain tout commence by Hugo Gélin, Alberto Giacometti, The Final Portrait by Stanley Tucci, 7 minuti by Michele Placido, and Je ne suis pas un héros by Rudy Milstein. She starred alongside Jesse Eisenberg in Resistance by Jonathan Jakubowicz and played a scientist in Tenet by Christopher Nolan. On television, she has appeared in Tunnel, En thérapie, Sambre and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Since 2016, she has directed several short films, including Le Coup des larmes, which was presented at the Venice Film Festival, and Concerto for Arte’s H24 collection. She is currently working on her first feature film, an adaptation of Anna Hope’s book Nos espérances.

Clara Bretheau trained at the Théâtre National de Bretagne drama school. On the big screen, she was in Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi’s Les Amandiers, in official competition at Cannes in 2022. She then played alongside Denis Podalydès and Salif Cissé in Fabienne Godet’s Le Répondeur and, last December, in Mehdi d’Amine Adjina’s La Petite Cuisine with Hiam Habbas and Younès Boucif. She has also appeared in several series such as Les Éloignés, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, and will soon be seen on Arte in Isabel Coixet's Quelqu'un devrait interdire les dimanches après-midi, alongside Théo Christine, Jeanne Balibar, and Tim Robbins.