Caroline Champetier

Cinematographer

Over her 40-year career, she has filmed a hundred or so works. After her early days working with Chantal Akerman (Toute une nuit, 1982), she went on to work alongside Jean-Luc Godard on Soigne ta droite (1985) and Hélas pour moi (1993).

She bridged the transition from French cinema’s New Wave to the new generation of directors who emerged at the end of the eighties with feature films such as La Bande des Quatre (1988), La Fille Seule (1995),  and Ponette (1995), then moved on to accompany Leos Carax, the director of Holy Motors (2012) and Annette (2021). Beyond the borders of France, Caroline has also worked with Wang Bing, Nobushiro Suwa, Naomi Kawase, Amos Gitai, Wang Chao, Tawfik Abu Wael and Irene Dionisio.

The sheen of the skin, its transparency and mystery, is a recurrent source of inspiration in Caroline Champetier’s works, a leitmotif that leads to a virtually physical immersion in the image, technology and art, to better serve the director’s vision and showcase the actors. The finesse of contrasts is a hallmark of her work. She won the César award for best photography and the Gianno di Venanzo award for Des Hommes et des Dieux, directed by Xavier Beauvois in 2011; she also won the Silver Frog at Camérimage for her work on Leos Carax’s Holy Motors and was nominated for the César for best photography for Les Innocentes by Anne Fontaine, Les Gardiennes by Xavier Beauvois and Annette by Leos Carax. In 2014, the Cinémathèque in Paris devoted a retrospective to her career. Her contribution to cinema was honoured in 2023 when she was presented with the Berlinale Kamera award at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Nowadays, Caroline gives the benefit of her experience and curiosity to young, overseas film-makers who are working on their first films, in particular Fyzal Boulifa’s Les Damnés ne Pleurent pas (2023) and Zhannat Alshanova’s A Winner is Seen at the Start (2025), as well as sensitive documentaries such as Une Famille (2024) by Christine Angot.

2025 is the year of another film with Leos Carax.

Nadine Muse

Sound Editor

Following several years as assistant editor in the early 1970s, Nadine Muse moved on to work as head editor but more often as head sound editor, working alongside directors such as Gérard Oury and Alain Resnais, Claude Miller, Yves Boisset, Patrice Chéreau, Roman Polanski, Michael Haneke and Michel Hazanavicius. She was nominated for the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award  for best sound for her work on The Artist in 2012 and for the César award for her work on Claude Miller’s Mortelle Randonnée, Jean Becker’s Les Enfants du Marais, Roman Polanski’s La Vénus à la Fourrure, Michael Haneke’s Amour and Patrice Chéreau’s Ceux qui m’aiment Prendront le Train. She also received a European Film Award for Caché by Michael Haneke.