14/07/2022 - The Petite Maman director will lead the jury composed of 27 young people passionate about cinema, coming from each country in Europe, who will hand out the GdA Director’s Award

The president of the Giornate degli Autori jury in Venice will be a woman for the second year in a row. After the duo composed of Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova rewarded the Romanian film Immaculate [+see also:
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The French filmmaker returns to the Giornate after she was among the finalists for the LUX Prize in 2014 as part of the 27 Times Cinema project, organised by Giornate degli Autori, the LUX Audience Award of the European Parliament and Europa Cinemas, in collaboration with Cineuropa. 27 young Europeans will animate the campus of the Giornate and compose the jury, led by Sciamma and coordinated by Karlovy Vary International Film Festival artistic director Karel Och, which will hand out the only official award of the independent section to the film that best reflects the meaning of the award: the courage to see the world through new eyes.

“I feel grateful,” said Sciamma, “that I get to share my thoughts about contemporary films with such a young group, and at such a political moment for independent cinema. I feel close in spirit to Giornate degli Autori and I am excited about experiencing it fully as a member of the team this edition.”

“As a director who has always been interested in questions of identity,” said Artistic Director Gaia Furrer, “Céline Sciamma has with her films turned the established order of things in cinema on its head. She has thoroughly upended the basic structure of our society and masterfully created new images and new memories. With her latest film, Petite Maman, she has provided further proof that the prevailing canon of film production can indeed be challenged. I am absolutely certain that working side by side with an artist of this stature will be an extraordinary experience for the young jurors at Giornate degli Autori this year.”

Giornate Delegate Giorgio Gosetti added: “It isn’t just the films she has directed, all to widespread acclaim, that make Céline Sciamma a true artist. Equally essential, in my view, is her output as a screenwriter. She has brought her unique talent to bear on a range of artistic genres, from animated cartoons to TV series, teaming up with filmmakers from different generations, such as André Téchiné or Jacques Audiard”.

(Translated from Italian)