Cannes Critics’ Week has appointed French producer Sylvie Pialat as president of the jury for its upcoming version after Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who was initially introduced for the function, was pressured to cancel for private causes.
French director Iris Kaltenbäck has additionally been been named as a brand new jury member. Her first movie The Rapture premiered to acclaim in Critics’ Week final yr. The drama, starring Hafsia Herzi as a midwife who passes off her greatest buddy’s new child baby as her personal, gained the Prix SACD.
Beforehand introduced members of the jury embrace Rwandan actress Eliane Umuhire (Augure by Baloji, My New Pals, Haven of Grace), Belgian cinematographer Virginie Surdej (The Blue Caftan, Our Moms, Casablanca Beats), and Canadian movie critic and journalist Ben Croll.
Producer Pialat spent the primary a part of her cinema profession collaborating together with her husband Maurice Pialat, co-writing the screenplays for numerous his movies together with Police and Van Gogh.
Following his loss of life in 2003, she created Les Movies du Worso and since produced greater than 50 function movies beneath that banner, together with works by Guillaume Nicloux, Alain Guiraudie, Joachim Lafosse, Abderrahmane Sissako, Julie Gavras, Franco Lolli, Aude Léa Rapin, Céline Devaux, Cédric Kahn, Xavier Beauvois, Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine and Corneliu Porumboiu.
Cannes Critics’ Week runs from Might 15 to 23.
