Cannes Critics Week Names ‘Happening’ Director Audrey Diwan as Jury President
variety.comManori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Audrey Diwan, director of the 2021 Venice Golden Lion winner “Happening,” has been named jury president of the 62nd annual Cannes’ Critics Week.
Other jury members include 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, a former journalist, made her debut with “Losing It” in 2019. The filmmaker took home the Venice Film Festival’s top prize for her sophomore feature, the searing abortion drama “Happening.” She became only the second woman (after 2020’s Chloe Zhao) to win the Golden Lion since Agnès Varda, who won in 1985 for “Vagabond.” Critics Week described Diwan in press materials 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.” Critics Week runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival, and focuses on first and second films.
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania (“The Man who Sold his Skin”) served as last year’s jury president. The program runs from May 17-25.
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