Jury 2024

President of the jury


Didier Farré

Didier Farré has been working in the film industry for fifty years. He produces, co-produces, or distributes more than 500 films in Canada, including the great films: 37.2, Bagdad Café, Le Grand Pardon, etc … An agreement with Gaumont allows Didier Farré to distribute the films of great directors, all the cartoons of Lucky Luke and Asterix as well as all the classics of Marcel Pagnol. In 1995, Didier Farré built, in Gatineau, the cinematographic complex of nine most modern cinemas of Canada. Since 1998, he has founded and directed the Outaouais Film Festival, which attracts more than 25,000 spectators for a hundred films. Didier Farré has served as administrator of several festivals and as president of the Québec Association of Film Owners.

Members of the jury


Corinne Bénichou

In 1984, Corinne Bénichou began her career as a researcher-host, then a cultural journalist. Over the years, she diversified by adding several strings to her professional arc: Editor-in-chief, editor, producer, director, actor agent, communications director, event organizer, creator of projects and concepts, columnist, among others, within the cultural milieu, in traditional media spheres (radio, written press, television) but also on social networks.

In 1999, she created the artistic agency Esther, a beautiful adventure of seven (7) years. That same year, Regards sur la ville was created, a cultural bulletin on paper for four (4) years, which has become a cultural magazine on the Net for eighteen (18) years : www.regardssurlaville.net

In 2005, she founded Rétrospective festival.

In 2015, Corinne Bénichou chose to devote herself to tourism journalism which combines travel, gastronomy, leisure, well-being, discovery and other activities, without forgetting accommodation and services, with category Sortir on Regards sur la ville and Sur la route page on Facebook.


Élie Castiel

Élie Castiel studied French literature, film and translation at Concordia University and received training in library science. He is Editor-in-Chief and film and other visual arts critic at KinoCulture Montréal, and held the same position at Séquences magazine for several years. He holds a Masters Degree from Concordia. He has been teaching Greek cinema at Université de Montréal for over 20 years. Consequently, he was given honorary membership at the Hellenic Film Academy, Greece. He was for some time president of the AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).


Honey Arline Dresher

Honey Arline Dresher has acted as an Executive Producer, Consulting producer, Advisor & Advocate in a lengthy career spanning Broadcasting, Music, Cinema, Performing Arts, Visual arts, Literature, Cultural Diversity & Human Rights. Currently, she is on the Selection Committee and special projects with the Vues d’Afrique International Film Festival, Consulting Producer on a documentary and an operatic cinema project and is the past Delegate General of the Festival du Cinéma Israélien de Montréal.


Ariel Ifergan

In his 20-year career, Ariel Ifergan has performed in more than 20 productions, some of which have been the subject of major tours. In recent seasons, we have included L’Orangeraie (Larry Tremblay, Claude Poissant, TDP and Trident), Richard III (Brigitte Haentjens, TNM and Sibyllines), Oslo (JT Rodgers, Edith Patenaude at Duceppe), Fanny and Alexandre (Sophie Cadieux and Félix Antoine Boutin). In 2017, he collaborated for the first time with Denise Filiatrault who directed What We Did to the Good God? After the premiere at Rideau Vert, this show will be a great success on tour throughout Quebec.

As artistic director of the company Pas de Panique, Ariel produces, writes and directs several shows including You Have No Chance, Georges Perec’s The Increase, Le Petit Arturo. From 2007 to 2017, he played all the characters in Z as Zadig, an adaptation of Voltaire’s tale directed by Anne Millaire.

After a 3-year creative residency at the Segal Centre, he produced J. Garfinkel’s La Maison aux 67 languages at the Theatre La Unicorne, a show in which he performed under the direction of Philippe Lambert.

On television, Ariel Ifergan made his name in Watatow and Virginie. Recently, we saw him in Amber Alert, Cerebrum, Breakup, Another Story. In addition, he plays the mathematics teacher in The Secondary Effect. In the cinema field, he collaborated with Micheline Lanctôt in A Way of Living where he played the philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

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