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Film critic
Country of origin
France

Garance Hayat (*1966) was preparing to become a teacher in German, but that was before pushing the doors of the Cinemathèque. To see even more films, she found nothing better than to become a film critic. Her average: 300 films per year. She shares her passion on Fréquence Protestante, for which she is also an interviewer. She was head of the cinema section at Aime magazine, collaborated with the magazines Chronic'art and Paris Mômes, among others. Juror at the Arras festival (2022), Poitiers (2019), Valenciennes (2019). She also serves as press officer of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes. Passionate about theatre, she even wrote a few plays. In addition, she is a designer-editor and runs a website to tell all this: https://garance-hayat.fr

Festivals

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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