French actress Emmanuelle Béart and Belgian-Congolese director/songwriter Baloji will co-preside over the Caméra d’Or jury of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

The Caméra d’Or is awarded to the best first feature film in Cannes’ Official Selection, or in the parallel Critics Week or Directors’ Fortnight sections.

Béart’s long list of credits include 8 Women (2002), Mission: Impossible (1996), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995), Heart In Winter (1992), La Belle Noiseuse (1991) and Manon Des Sources (1986).

Baloji won the New Voice Prize in Un Certain Regard last year for his debut feature Omen.

This year’s Caméra d’Or jury includes director of photography Gilles Porte,...

French actress Emmanuelle Béart has revealed she was a victim of incest as a child, according to a new documentary she co-directed.

On Tuesday, Agence France Presse reported that the film, titled Such a Resounding Silence, was screened at a press conference. In the documentary, Béart reveals details of the abuse but does not reveal the name of her abuser, and says she was saved by her grandmother.

Béart was not present at the press conference, but co-director Anastasia Mikova said the alleged attacker was not Béart’s father. Mikova added that the incest started when Béart was 10 and continued until she was 14.

Afp reports that in the film, Béart’s voice was heard off-screen, addressing her alleged abuser: “Since my father, my mother and my friends didn’t notice anything, you could do this again, and you did, over four years.”

Such a Resounding Silence tells the story of four victims of incest,...