JURY 2026 - COMPOSERS

Meet the jury responsible for selecting the film score composers for CASA CINE 2026

The panel brings together renowned professionals from various fields, responsible for selecting film music composers for the next CASA CINE residency. From classical and orchestral music to world music, rock, and electronic music, the jury of composers reflects the diversity of today's musical landscape.

Their knowledge, experience, and instincts will be invaluable in recognizing and supporting these emerging artistic voices. A big thank you for their commitment and sharp ears!

Delphine Mantoulet

Delphine Mantoulet is a film music composer and producer.

A classically trained pianist, she is particularly interested in rock and electronic music. She began her career as a producer in London at Swan Island Music, before working at Warner Bros Music Studio in Paris and later at Naïve Records.

It was when she met director Tony Gatlif on the film Exils in 2004 that she began her career as a composer and developed a passion for world music and film music. This collaboration marked the beginning of a fruitful and lasting artistic partnership. She continued to collaborate with Tony Gatlif on the films Transylvania, Freedom, Indignados, and Geronimo. She has been nominated twice for a César in the Best Original Soundtrack category (Exils, 2004; Freedom, 2009) and has received several awards, including the Best Original Soundtrack award for the song Les Bohémiens, performed by Catherine Ringer in the film Freedom.

In 2017, she took on the challenge of composing the continuous music for the 80-minute tribute show to Claude Ponti, Lala Bidoum, in which she recreates the imaginary world of the author's dreamlike and fantastical tales. She reunited with Tony Gatlif and composed the soundtrack for the film Tom Medina, presented in the official selection at the 2021 Festival de Cannes, alongside Karoline Rose Sun, Nicolas Reyes, and Manero, blending flamenco, rock, and gypsy music. That year, she was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

She was invited to compose the soundtrack for Asli Özarslan's film Elbow, which premiered in 2024 at the Berlinale and the Music & Cinema Festival in Marseille, where Delphine Mantoulet won the Grand Prix for Best Original Music. The following year, she collaborated again with director Tony Gatlif on the feature film Ange with Arthur H., which premiered at the Festival de Cannes in 2025.

In addition to her artistic activities, Delphine Mantoulet has participated as a professional in several CNC commissions in the field of original music and diversity. In 2025, she was invited to join the teaching staff of the new international school of music composition for image (EICMI).

Pierre Ruscher

Pierre Ruscher is a French composer, author of several compositions and orchestrations for various ensembles, including the Orchestre National de Cannes, the Opéra de Lausanne, the Opéra de Nice, and the Opéra National du Rhin. He began his musical studies with solfège and guitar before devoting himself to composition, which he studied for four years under the guidance of a disciple of Olivier Messiaen. His first symphony, L'illusoire des sens, was followed by Traversée, a piece for orchestra created as part of the Concours international de Besançon.

His long professional career encompasses several orchestral works, such as Triangle, a piece for percussion, harps, and solo cello, commissioned by the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra; the arrangement and reorchestration of Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel and Gretel; Geyser, a piece for large orchestra at the Opéra de Nice; and L'âme et l'époux, a cantata for choir and orchestra, created as part of the Nice Sacred Music Festival.

Alongside his creations for classical ensembles, Pierre Ruscher has composed several pieces for percussion orchestra, including an adaptation of Maurice Ravel's The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand for a percussion ensemble and piano, and the orchestration of Moussorgsky's Tableaux d'une exposition for the Orchestre National de Cannes and a percussion ensemble. More recently, he has returned to pure composition with the double concerto for piano and percussion Les carillons du temps. This was followed by Citius Altius Fortus, a commission from the Nice Orchestra, and an oratorio that will premiere in 2026.

He also teaches composition and orchestration in the Master's program Creative Music and Sound Design for Visual Media Scoring at the University of Nice Côte d'Azur.

Renaud Barbier

Renaud Barbier is a French composer who has written more than fifty scores for films, TV movies, TV series, and documentaries.

After ten years of training in classical piano, he studied jazz at the Centre Musical Créatif in Nancy. After working as a performing musician in jazz and world music groups, he then enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston to study film music, symphonic composition, big band arrangement, and jazz piano. He has recorded several original works, including the music for the ballet Trois Profils Pour Une Danse, for which he was awarded a grant from the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation. His talent has been recognized with several international awards, including the George Delerue Prize for the music of the short film A Christmas Gift. In 1999, he was commissioned to compose an orchestral work commemorating the 26th centennial of the city of Marseille, "La fabuleuse histoire de Marseille...".

In the years that followed, Renaud Barbier began a fruitful artistic collaboration with his brother, director Éric Barbier: he first composed the soundtrack for the film Toreros in 2000, then for the feature films Le Serpent (2007), Le Dernier Diamant (2014), La Promesse de l'aube (2017) with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Pierre Niney, and the adaptation of Gaël Faye's novel, Petit Pays (2020).

At the same time, he also collaborated as a composer on numerous films, including: Le tueur de Montmartre (animated film, 2007) directed by Borislav Sajtinac, which won several major international awards, the Mexican feature film Mejor es que Gabriela no se muera (black comedy, 2007) by Sergio Umansky Brener, which won the Best First Film award at the Cinequest San Jose International Film Festival, Brassens, la mauvaise réputation (Biopic, 2011) directed by Gérard Marx, and Quand Homo Sapiens faisait son cinéma (Documentary, 2015), which received several awards.

Renaud Barbier has also composed numerous scores for documentary films for Arte and France Télévisions, including: Vauban, la sueur épargne le sang (2010), Hasekura, un samouraï au Vatican (2018), L'invention du luxe à la française (2020), and Tour Eiffel, le rêve d'un visionnaire (2023).