FIPRESCI Prize for Best Actress: Zoe Saldaña
Join us January 4th for an extended post-screening Talking Pictures discussion with expected guests, director Jacques Audiard and actors Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Edgar Ramírez.
Film Festival 2025
A resourceful lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) helps a notorious Mexican cartel boss undergo gender-affirming surgery and start anew as Emilia Pérez (Karla Sofía Gascón). Complications arise when Emilia attempts to reconnect with the wife (Selena Gomez) and children she left behind in this exhilarating, genre-defying musical.
Congratulations to the Emilia Pérez team on making the shortlist for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards!
Congratulations to the Emilia Pérez team on making the shortlist for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards!
film details
| Director: | Jacques Audiard |
| Producers: | Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard, Valérie Schermann, Anthony Vaccarello |
| Screenwriter: | Jacques Audiard |
| Cinematographers: | Paul Guilhaume |
| Editor: | Juliette Welfling |
| Music: | Clément and Camille Ducol |
| Cast: | Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, Mark Ivanir |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Running Time: | 132 minutes |
| Director Filmography: | The Sisters Brothers (2018), Dheepan (PSIFF 2016), Rust and Bone (PSIFF 2013), A Prophet (2009), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) |
| Awards: | Best Actress Award, Cannes Film Festival; Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival; Chairman’s Vanguard Award, Palm Springs International Film Festival; Audience Award, Mill Valley Film Festival |
| Primary Company: | Netflix |
| Contact Email: | kdalton@netflix.com |