15/01/2026
Presenting the 10 to Watch 2026 by Unifrance
They made waves at major international festivals in 2025 — and in 2026, their work will reach screens around the world.�Meet the new faces shaping French cinema. ✨
• Ugo Bienvenu�
• Valentine Cadic
• Anna Cazenave Cambet
• Salif Cissé
• Alice Douard
• Guillaume Marbeck
• Thomas Ngijol
• Park Ji-Min
• Théodore Pellerin
• Ella Rumpf
The 2026 10 to Watch were relected for the excellence of their work by an international jury of journalists: Rebecca Leffler (Screen International), Fabien Lemercier (Cineuropa), Jordan Mintzer (The Hollywood Reporter), Christine Masson (France Inter), and Mariam Schaghaghi (independent journalist for the German press).
Through the freedom and singularity of their artistic choices, their ambition, boldness, and openness to the world, they reflect a cinema in constant renewal.
Unifrance is proud to spotlight this new generation of directors and actors, whose work, on the big screen and, for some, in television, fuels the vitality of contemporary French storytelling and travels far beyond France’s borders.