Audrey Diwan named as jury president for Cannes Critics’ Week

Cannes Critics’ Week has named director Audrey Diwan as jury president for its 62nd edition this year, which runs from May 17 – 25.

Diwan won the Golden Lion at Venice for her second feature Happening in 2021. Born in 1980, Critics’ Week described the French director as belonging to a new generation of female filmmakers “whose sharpness and formal freedom are reinventing the codes and redefining the boundaries of international cinema.”

She will be accompanied on the jury by Portuguese director of photography Rui Poças, German actor, choreograph and dancer Franz Rogowski, Indian journalist, curator and advisor to the programming of the Berlin Film Festival Meenakshi Shedde as well as Sundance’s Film Festival programming director Kim Yutani.

Critics’ Week, a parallel selection of the Festival de Cannes, is dedicated to first and second films.

The Jury will award the Grand Prize of Critics’ Week to the best feature film, the French Touch Prize of the Jury, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award to the best actor/actress and the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for best short film. 

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