29/04/2025 - The British filmmaker will be joined by Louise Courvoisier, Roberto Minervini, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Vanja Kaludjercic

l-r: Director Molly Manning Walker (© DR), director Roberto Minervini (© Olga Prudka), IFFR director Vanja Kaludjercic (© Anne Reitsma), director Louise Courvoisier (© Laurent Le Crabe) and actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (© DR) (© Cannes Film Festival)

After Juliette Binoche was announced as the president of the competition jury (see the news) of the 78th Cannes Film Festival (13-24 May), Maren Ade as the chair of the short-film competition jury (see the news) and Alice Rohrwacher as the president of the Caméra d’Or jury (see the news), it is time for the Un Certain Regard jury chair's name to be unveiled - and it is another woman: British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker (the winner of the 2023 Un Certain Regard Prize with How to Have Sex [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Molly Manning Walker
film profile]).

She will be joined by French-Swiss director Louise Courvoisier (Holy Cow [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Louise Courvoisier
film profile]), Italian director and producer Roberto Minervini (selected in Un Certain Regard in 2015 with The Other Side [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Roberto Minervini
film profile] and last year with The Damned [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], winning the Best Directing Award, and in the 2018 Venice competition with What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire? [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Roberto Minervini
film profile]), Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (winner of the César Award for Best New Actor and nominated for the European Film Award with BPM (Beats Per Minute) [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Arnaud Valois
interview: Robin Campillo
film profile], and winner of the Best Actor Award at Karlovy Vary for All Yours [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: David Lambert
film profile], seen recently in My New Friends [+see also:
film review
film profile] and Kill the Jockey [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Luis Ortega
film profile]) and IFFR director Vanja Kaludjercic.

The Un Certain Regard jury will be weighing up the 20 titles selected this year (see the news and the additional article), which will be opened by Erige Sehiri's Promised Sky.

(Translated from French)