Monia CHOKRI

Director, Actress, Script Writer

Canada

Photo de juré © François Berthier

Quebec native Monia Chokri is a trained actress who graduated from the Conservatoire d'art dramatique in Montreal. She began her career as a stage actress before meeting Xavier Dolan, with whom she filmed Heartbeats (selected for Un Certain Regard 2010) and Laurence Anyways (selected for Un Certain Regard 2012). Alongside her work as an actress, she shot her first short in 2013 with An Extraordinary Person, winning the Junior Jury Award for best international short at the 66th edition of the Locarno Film Festival. In 2019, she was back in Cannes with her first feature film, A Brother's Love, which scooped the Un Certain Regard Jury’s Coup de cœur Award. In 2022, she is presenting her second feature film as a director with Babysitter, which was selected in the Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight category.

Jury attendance

  • Member La Cinef & Short Films, 2022

Feature films

SIMPLE COMME SYLVAIN

Un Certain Regard, 2023Director, Actress, Screenplay

CHAMBRE 999

Cannes Classics, 2023Actress

LA FEMME DE MON FRÈRE

Un Certain Regard, 2019Director, Director

LAURENCE ANYWAYS

Un Certain Regard, 2012Actress

LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES

Un Certain Regard, 2010Actress

Awards

LA FEMME DE MON FRÈRE

(A BROTHER'S LOVE) Un Certain Regard, 2019
2019 Un Certain Regard Jury's "Coup de Coeur" (Ex-Aequo)
Director, Director