French director Anna Cazenave Cambet first came to Cannes in 2016 as a student with a short film called Gabber Lover, which won the Queer Palm award. With two feature films under her belt, she returned to the Croisette in 2026 as one of the "10 to Watch" rising French stars. RFI spoke to her about finding her place as a young woman in the industry, and her hopes for the future of cinema.
A year before she graduated from Paris's prestigious La Fémis film school in 2017, Cambet showed her first short film, Gabber Lover, at Cannes in the student filmmakers' section La Cinef. She made a second short film Iemanja – Cœur océan a year later, and in 2020 directed her first full-length feature, De l’or pour les chiens ("Gold for Dogs"), which earned the Cannes Critics' Week Label. She returned to the Croisette in 2025 with Love me Tender, in the Un Certain Regard section, adapted from the novel of the same name by Constance Debré – in which Vicky Krieps starred as Clémence, a married woman who loses custody of her son when she reveals that she is a lesbian. This year, Cambet was back in Cannes alongside nine other young directors, actors and screenwriters chosen by Unifrance as ambassadors to promote French film and TV content worldwide.
