DUBAI: French Lebanese filmmaker and writer Audrey Diwan has been announced as jury president for this year’s edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
Cannes Critics’ Week — devoted to emerging talents and first and second features — will unfold from May 17 to 25 this year.
“Born in 1980, she belongs to this new generation of female filmmakers whose sharpness and formal freedom are reinventing the codes and redefining the boundaries of international cinema,” Cannes Critics’ Week said of the director, according to a report in Deadline.
Diwan will be joined on the jury by Portuguese director of photography Rui Pocas; German actor, choreographer, and dancer Franz Rogowski; Indian journalist, curator and advisor to the programming of the Berlin Film Festival, Meenakshi Shedde; as well as American film programmer Kim Yutani, Sundance’s Film Festival programming director.
Diwan won the Venice Golden Lion in 2021 for her second feature “Happening,” based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Annie Ernaux.