CINE-RENCONTRE with Delphine Mantoulet

The Campus Georges Méliès – Cannes Bastide Rouge, La Napoule Art Foundation, and SERENA Productions are pleased to invite the public to an exceptional MASTERCLASS with Delphine Mantoulet, on Tuesday, May 26th, 2026, at 2:00 p.m at the Campus Georges Méliès.

Translating the Invisible or Listening to the Image

“Creative temporality, sonic material, and the choreography of the image: this approach draws directly on my experience as a film composer, particularly through my collaboration with director Tony Gatlif, where music is never conceived as mere narrative accompaniment, but as an organic force permeating the film. Film music does not comment on the image; it is intrinsic to the image, a full-fledged actor in the film, and its interplay is orchestrated around the viewer’s emotional journey.”

For Delphine Mantoulet, composing is about “translating the invisible.” The score then becomes an emotional architecture, an inner breath that engages in dialogue with bodies, silences, movements, glances, and editing.

In her masterclass, Delphine Mantoulet will explore how certain sonic materials—breath, saturation, grainy texture, broken voices, organic percussion, acoustic or electronic resonances—become narrative elements in their own right. Drawing on her work on films such as Exils, Transylvania, Liberté, Geronimo, and Indignados, the composer will discuss how music acts as a living presence within the narrative.

Delphine Mantoulet is a French film score composer. After beginning her career as a music producer in London and Paris, she turned to film scoring in 2004 with Exils, marking the start of a fruitful collaboration with director Tony Gatlif. She went on to compose the music for several of his films, for which she has been nominated twice for the César for Best Original Soundtrack. Their two most recent collaborations, Tom Medina and Ange, premiered at Festival de Cannes. Beyond their long-lasting partnership, she continues to work with multiple renowned directors; her score for Asli Özarslan’s film Elbow, selected for Berlinale, won the the Grand Prix for Best Original Music at the Music & Cinema Festival in 2024. Delphine Mantoulet has also served on several CNC commissions, and currently teaches at the EICMI, the new international school of music composition for image. She was a jury of the 2025 and 2026 editions of CASA CINE and is mentoring this year’s resident composers throughout the course of the residency.

This initiative is part of the FICCTION project, led by the Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications d’Excellence Industries Culturelles et Créatives Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, and supported under the “Skills and Jobs of the Future” call for proposals of the France 2030 program, administered by the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the Banque des Territoires, and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region.

Don't miss out on this exceptional encounter!