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Lebanese Filmmaker Audrey Diwan Will Lead Cannes’ Critics Week Jury

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Lebanese-French filmmaker and writer Audrey Diwan who won the Venice Golden Lion in 2021 for her sophomore feature has been announced as the jury president for this year’s edition of Cannes Critics Week.

The 62nd run of the parallel Cannes section will run from May 17 to 25 and is devoted to emerging talents and first and second features. Diwan is joined on the jury by Portuguese director of photography Rui Poças; German actor, choreographer, and dancer Franz Rogowski; Indian journalist, curator, and Berlinale programming advisor Meenakshi Shedde; and Sundance programming director Kim Yutani.

Diwan’s jury is responsible for awarding the Critics Week Grand Prize for best feature film, the French Touch Prize of the Jury, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for best actor and actress, and the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for the best short film. Last year’s jury which was headed by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania awarded the grand prize to Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s La Jauría while Charlotte Wells took the French Touch Prize for Aftersun, which went on to earn its co-lead Paul Mescal his first Oscar nomination.

In a press statement Cannes Critics Week said of Diwan, “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.”

Diwan who is a former journalist has certainly had a rising career since her debut in 2019 with Losing It. Just two years later she was awarded Venice Film Festival’s most coveted prize for her thriller Happening. She made history with that win considering she was the second woman to ever be awarded the Golden Lion since Agnès Varda took the prize home in 1985 for Vagabond.

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