Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner will function jury president on the upcoming Locarno Movie Competition, operating August 7-17.
Hausner and her jury will hand out the competition’s high honor – the Golden Leopard.
Born in Vienna in 1972, Hausner has a historical past on the Swiss Competition. She picked up the primary prize in Locarno’s Pardi di Domani for the brief Flora in 1997. Following Flora, she screened Inter-View, her 45-minute commencement movie, at Cannes in 1999. She has gone on to display screen a number of function movies in competitors at Cannes, together with Beautiful Rita (2001) and Lodge (2004).
Hausner’s different credit embody Lourdes (2009), Amour Fou (2014), her English-language debut Little Joe (2019), and final yr’s Membership Zero (2023).
“It’s a nice honor and in addition an amazing pleasure for me to preside over the primary jury of this yr’s Locarno Movie Competition”, stated Hausner.
“The duty I really feel is to respectfully hear the assorted opinions of my fellow jury members, as I actually imagine that each individual sees a distinct movie and that each perspective is attention-grabbing to debate. For me, Locarno is a competition that values creative and authentic approaches in filmmaking and thus reinforces the avant-garde of world cinema. I’m blissful to contribute to this agenda as a result of filmmaking is, for my part, about difficult our views and discovering new and weird methods to take a look at issues”.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Locarno Inventive Director added: “An important and stressed filmmaker, Jessica Hausner has created a various physique of labor reflecting essentially the most hidden facets of up to date society with extraordinary depth. With readability, steadfastness, and impeccable development, she has imagined each non secular and fantastical worlds that mirror the cogent richness of a posh and contradictory human expertise. To have Jessica Hausner as jury president of the Locarno Movie Competition’s Concorso Internazionale is a rare honor and a assure that the movies will probably be mentioned by a jury led by some of the extraordinary filmmakers working at present”.