26/04/2012 - The French filmmaker will head the jury for features at the 2012 Critics’ Week, while the Portuguese filmmaker will lead the jury for its shorts

Like last year, the Grand Prize at the 51st Critics’ Week from May 17 to 25 at the 65th Cannes Film Festival will be handed out by a jury, and not by the press as was previously the case.

The jury will be made up of four international journalists and headed by French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello (photo). Winner of the Grand Prize at the Critics’ Week in 2011 with the The Pornographer, the latter is a well-seasoned Cannes attendee, running in its official competition with Tiresia in 2003 and House of Tolerance [+see also:
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For the short film competition, the jury will be headed by Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues whose two last films also went to Cannes: Two Drifters [+see also:
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(Translated from French)