An unmissable event at the Cannes Film Festival since 2015, the “Women In Motion” evening pays tribute each year to female voices in cinema. This year he rewarded the American actress in front of an audience of stars.
After having worthily celebrated its tenth anniversary at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, “Women In Motion” continues its mission: to highlight women in cinema. In addition to its series of talks organized at the Penthouse of the Carlton, the program launched by Kering presented its two annual awards last night: the “Women In Motion” Emerging Talent Prize to Margherita Spampinato and the “Women In Motion Prize” to Julianne Moore.
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The stars present at the festival that evening met on the heights of Cannes, at Suquet, to celebrate these two talents. Isabelle Huppert and Rami Malek posed together on the red carpet, preceded by Charlotte Lebon and Daisy Edgar Jones, visibly accomplices. Also present were Carla Bruni, Pierre Niney and his wife Natasha Andrews, Laure Calamy, Leïla Bekhti, president of the Un Certain Regard jury, Xavier Dolan, actress-director Monia Chokri, president of the Camera d’or Jury, Farida Khelfa, the actress and musician Pomme, Géraldine Pailhas and Demi Moore.
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Bringing women’s voices
After François-Henri Pinault, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kering and founder of “Women In Motion”, opened the evening, Iris Knobloch, President of the Cannes Film Festival spoke: “It is important that visibility transforms into opportunities” she said. underlined before the Italian filmmaker Margherita Spampinato came to receive her prize in front of the assembly for her first film My Joy.
General delegate of the Festival, Thierry Frémaux then presented his distinction to Julianne Moore, “the first American actress to have received acting prizes at the Venice festivals (Far from Paradise2002), from Berlin (The Hours2003), and Cannes (Maps to the stars2014). On stage, the actress declared her love for the actresses, greeting her friend Salma Hayek Pinault, also present, and Isabelle Huppert. “Women’s points of view count (…) We need women’s voices,” she concluded in front of an audience which included several directors from this 2026 edition, including Chloe Zhao, member of the competition jury, and Géraldine Nakache. This year, the Frenchwoman is the guest of a “Women In Motion” talk around her fourth film, If you think wellsélectionné à Cannes Première.
