‘Occurring’ Director Audrey Diwan President Cannes Critics’ Week Jury – The Hollywood Reporter

Occurring director Audrey Diwan will head up this yr’s jury for the Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar, organizers unveiled on Wednesday.

The French filmmaker gained the Golden Lion in Venice for Occurring, an abortion drama set in early Nineteen Sixties France, which was her second function. She’s going to take over duties as jury president for the Critics’ Week, a parallel Cannes pageant sidebar that focuses on first and second options from rising abilities.

Becoming a member of Diwan on this yr’s Critics’ Week jury are German actor Franz Rogowski (A Hidden Life, Disco Boy), Portuguese cinematographer Rui Poças (Frankie, Tabu), Sundance pageant programming director Kim Yutani, and Indian journalist and Berlinale pageant programmer Meenakshi Shedde.

Initially arrange by an affiliation of French movie critics in 1962, Critics’ Week is the oldest non-official Cannes sidebar. The part is credited with discovering a few of the greatest names in impartial and arthouse cinema, lots of whom have gone on to success on the official pageant. Two-time Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach introduced his function debut Kes to Critics’ Week in 1970. Julia Ducournau’s first movie, Uncooked, was a 2016 Critics’ Week choice. Her follow-up, Titane, gained the Palme d’Or in 2021. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s debut Amores Perros screened there in 2000. His 2006 function Babel, and 2010’s Bitiful had been in official competitors, the previous profitable finest director. Andrea Arnold’s first brief movies — Milk (1998) and Canine (2001) — had been additionally Critics’ Week premieres. The British director has since had three options — Pink Highway (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016) — in competitors, the latter two profitable finest director. Arnold’s final movie, the documentary Cow, screened within the official choice out of competitors.

The Critics’ Week jury awards prizes for finest movie, the French Contact Prize of the Jury, the Louis Roederer Basis Rising Star Award for finest actor or actress, and the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for finest brief movie within the choice.

The 2023 Critics’ Week runs Could 17-25.