The Venice Film Competition has unveiled the official juries for its 82nd version operating from August 27 to September 6.
On the primary competitors jury, beforehand introduced jury president Alexander Payne, will probably be joined by French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé; Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero; Romanian director, author and producer Cristian Mungiu; Iranian director and author Mohammad Rasoulof; Brazilian actress, author and screenwriter Fernanda Torres and Chinese language actress Zhao Tao.
They’ll determine the Golden Lion for Greatest Film; Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize; Silver Lion for Greatest Director; Coppa Volpi for Greatest Actress; Coppa Volpi for Greatest Actor; Award for Greatest Screenplay; Particular Jury Prize, and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Greatest New Younger Actor or Actress.
Numerous the jury members have Venice connections.
Brizé’s One other World (2021) and Out of Season(2023) premiered in Venice competitors; Delpero world premiered her second movie Vermiglio on the competition final 12 months, profitable the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize. Torres additionally made waves at Venice in 2024 for her efficiency in Walter Salles’ political drama I’m Nonetheless Right here, which premiered in Competition profitable the Greatest Screenplay award earlier than occurring to win the Oscar for Greatest Worldwide Function.
Tao has made common journeys to Venice, together with together with her breakout debut position Platform (2000) by Jia Zhang-Ke after which his Golden Lion profitable 2006 movie Nonetheless Life, returning in 2012 with Andrea Segre’s Shun Li and the Poet which was introduced at Giornate degli Autori.
Cannes common and Palme d’Or winner Mungiu (4 month, 3 weeks and a couple of days, Past the Hills and Commencement) touches down on the competition for the primary time, as does Rasoulof, whose most up-to-date movie The Seed of the Sacred Fig, premiered at Cannes in 2024, the place it gained the Particular Jury Prize.
The Horizons (Orizzonti) jury will probably be chaired by French director and screenwriter Julia Ducournau, who will probably be joined by Italian director and videoartist Yuri Ancarani; Argentine movie critic Fernando Enrique Juan Lima; Australian director Shannon Murphy; American artist and filmmaker RaMell Ross.
They’ll award the Orizzonti Award for Greatest Film; Orizzonti Award for Greatest Director; Particular Orizzonti Jury Prize; Orizzonti Award for Greatest Actress; Orizzonti Award for Greatest Actor, Orizzonti Award for Greatest Screenplay and Orizzonti Award for Greatest Brief Film.
Julia Ducournau, who gained the Cannes Palme d’Or for Titane and was just lately again on the competition with third function Alpha, makes her Venice debut within the position.
Ancarani is a Venice common. After making his Lido debut with brief movie The Chief in 2010, his documentary Atlantide was introduced in Venice within the Orizzonti part in 2021, whereas his most up-to-date documentary, Il Popolo delle Donne (2023) performed in Giornate degli Autori.
Argentinian movie Lima can be an everyday Venice attendee, whereas Murphy touched down in Competition in Venice in 2019 with debut movie Babyteeth, for which its lead Toby Wallace was awarded the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Greatest Younger Actor. Nickel Boys director Ross will make his first look on the competition.
The jury for the Luigi De Laurentiis Venice Award for a greatest first function will probably be chaired by UK movie Charlotte Wells, who will probably be joined by French-Tunisian director and producer Erige Sehiri and Italian director and screenwriter Silvio Soldini.
