Born in Beirut in 1980, Ibrahim Maalouf is a multi-award-winning trumpeter and composer of film music (Victoires de la musique, Césars, Lumières, etc.).
In the space of seventeen albums, he has gone from winner of the world’s greatest international classical trumpet competitions to the most popular jazzman on the French music scene.
Spotted by living legend Quincy Jones, Ibrahim has collaborated in recent years with Wynton Marsalis, Angélique Kidjo, Melody Gardot, the Chronos Quartet, Trilok Gurtu, Josh Groban, Sting, Marcus Miller, Salif Keita and many others.
Ibrahim has composed some twenty soundtracks for the cinema (feature films, documentaries, shorts), including that of the documentary film 9 jours à Raqqa directed by Xavier de Lauzanne and selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, as well as the music for the Polish feature film Leave no traces by Jan P. Matuzsynski.
He will soon be releasing his eighteenth album.
6th Prize for Best Sound Creation
Composition of the Jury
Ibrahim MAALOUF
Elsa ZYLBERSTEIN
First noticed in Maurice Pialat’s Van Gogh, Elsa Zylberstein won the Prix Michel-Simon in 1992 and was nominated for a César for Best Emerging Actress.
Winner of the Prix Romy Schneider in 1993 for Martine Dugowson’s Mina Tannenbaum, she went on to star in numerous films with international casts.
In 2009, she won the César for Best Supporting Actress for Il y a longtemps que je t’aime by Philippe Claudel.
She has worked with Claude Lelouch on a number of occasions, and has also starred in comedies for cinema and Netflix.
A member of the “Un certain regard” jury at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, she then shot Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero, in official competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, and Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance, presented at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
With projects close to her heart, she plays Simone Veil in Olivier Dahan’s Simone – Le voyage du siècle, the biggest box-office success of 2022 with 2.4 million admissions.
In 2023, she reunited with Claude Lelouch for Finalement.
She has just completed John Jencks’ next film, Promenade, and is about to shoot Noémie Saglio’s next film, Natacha Hôtesse de l’air.
An eclectic actress, Cyrielle Clair’s career has spanned both the silver screen and the stage.
Her first film role came in 1980 with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Tusk, followed by Georges Lautner’s Le Professionnel, alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo.
She explored various film genres, from drama to comedy, and played a wide range of roles in international productions, while also trying her hand at television in several series.
In the theater, she excelled in a variety of genres, performing works by authors such as Jean Giraudoux, René de Obaldia and Oscar Wilde.
She was named Chevalier, then Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Cyrielle CLAIR
David GUIRAUD
Born in 1984 in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France, David Guiraud co-founded Cannes-based production company Adastra Films in 2008.
As Artistic Director, he oversees and guides the artistic vision of the company’s projects, from writing to editing.
He has produced a diverse range of feature films, including LaRoy, which won three awards at Deauville 2023, The Strange Ones (SXSW) and four short films selected at Sundance.
David has also directed three short films, including L’Assistante (broadcast on Netflix) and En Proie (France 2).
As an editor, he has taken part in several short and feature films, including Patardzlebi by Tinatin Kajrishvili, which won an award at the Berlinale in 2014.
David is an alumnus of Groupe Ouest, G.R.E.C and the Maison du Film’s DUO residency.
He is currently developing his first feature film.
A leading figure in French broadcasting, Janine Langlois Glandier has headed some of the industry’s most prestigious institutions: Société Française de Production (SFP), France 3, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and Pathé.
A keen innovator, she has enthusiastically followed the convergence of television and new technologies.
Since 2004, she has been President of the Mobile Media Forum, which brings together some thirty companies (publishers, operators, manufacturers, content creators, authors’ societies, etc.) concerned by the evolution and development of audiovisual media broadcasting.
Janine LANGLOIS GLANDIER
Christian HUGONNET
An engineering graduate of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Christian Hugonnet founded the association “La Semaine du Son” in 1998, to educate the general public and raise awareness of the importance of the quality of our sound environment.
A Court of Cassation-approved expert, he has also run a consulting firm in acoustics for auditoriums and recording studios since 1993, and teaches sound recording at various international film schools.
Partner of the 6th edition
THE CITY OF CANNES, OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION
“The City of Cannes is honored and proud to sponsor the 6th edition of the Best Sound Creation Award of the official "Un Certain Regard" selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2024.
David Lisnardmaire de Cannes
After acquiring the MIDEM brand in 2022 and relaunching MIDƐM+, an international event dedicated to music professionals, in 2023, Cannes City Council's sponsorship of this essential prize, which gives its due value to the sound component of film and in particular its music, is totally in line with its "Cannes On air" territorial strategy.
Cannes is considered today as the crossroads of creation, imagination, distribution, dissemination, promotion and enhancement of artistic expression, of which cinema is the beating heart and music its universal vibration. ”
2024 prize list
Jury statement
“ARMAND” by HALFDAN ULLMANN TØNDEL AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION 2024 “Un Certain Regard” Under the official patronage of the City of Cannes
Under the aegis of its president, trumpeter and composer Ibrahim MAALOUF, and its co-president, actress Elsa ZYLBERSTEIN, the jury for the 6th edition of the Best Sound Creation Award, made up of actress Cyrielle CLAIR, director and co-founder of Adastra Films David GUIRAUD, and Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER and Christian HUGONNET, founders of the award, unanimously chose Norwegian director Halfdan ULLMANN TØNDEL for his film “Armand”.
“The film’s sound design not only accompanies and supports the image, but also manages to broaden it, making it more accessible.
and also to precede it.
Totally in harmony with the film’s subject, music and composition
and spiritual interiority of the characters and the imperatives of a constraining outside world.world.
The jury also decided to award a special mention to Latvian director Gints ZILBALODIS for his film “Flow”.
“For the beauty, the original music and the extreme accuracy of the sound atmosphere that characterizes
his film “Flow”.
This skilful combination contributes to the credibility of the proposed universe and
succeeds in drawing us into this exciting, sensitive and forward-looking adventure.
