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 compelled 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 12 months. The drama, starring Hafsia Herzi as a midwife who passes off her finest buddy’s new child youngster as her personal, received the Prix SACD.
Beforehand introduced members of the jury embrace Rwandan actress Eliane Umuhire (Augure by Baloji, My New Mates, 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 characteristic movies below 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.