The members of the Venice 82 competition jury are all present and correct
- Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero, Cristian Mungiu, Mohammad Rasoulof, Fernanda Torres and Zhao Tao will be flanking jury chair Alexander Payne, who was announced back in April
The Venice Film Festival (27 August-6 September) has disclosed the names of the members of the jury for the Venice 82 International Competition. They will be backing up jury chair Alexander Payne, whose appointment was previously announced on 28 April (see the news).
A clutch of renowned personalities will be handing out the Golden Lion and the other official awards to the features in competition alongside the US writer-director-producer. First up is Stéphane Brizé, a French writer-director with 11 features under his belt, including Not Here to Be Loved [+see also:
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film profile] (César Award for Best Adaptation in 2010), A Few Hours of Spring [+see also:
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film profile] and The Measure of a Man [+see also:
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
film profile]. The latter was in competition at Cannes in 2015, where Vincent Lindon picked up the Best Actor Award. His next movie was A Woman’s Life [+see also:
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Q&A: Stéphane Brizé
film profile], in competition at Venice in 2016 and the winner of the Louis Delluc Prize. With At War [+see also:
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
film profile] (2018), he took part in the Cannes competition. Another World [+see also:
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
film profile] (2023) were both presented in competition at Venice. Brizé has just wrapped the shoot for his next film, A Good Little Soldier, starring Lindon and Alba Rohrwacher (see the news).
Maura Delpero, an Italian writer-director, won more than 30 awards at over 100 international festivals with her first fiction feature, Maternal [+see also:
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interview: Maura Delpero
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film profile], she snagged the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize at Venice and bagged a place on the shortlist for the Oscar for Best International Film in 2025. Delpero is the first woman to have won the David di Donatello for Best Director.
Romanian writer-director-producer Cristian Mungiu has been at Cannes with his films and achieved significant success there: his feature debut, Occident, screened in the Directors’ Fortnight in 2002, with his subsequent works being 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [+see also:
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interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Oleg Mutu
film profile] (2007, winner of the Palme d'Or), Beyond the Hills [+see also:
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interview: Cosmina Stratan
interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Cristian Mungiu
film profile] (2012, the Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress at Cannes), Graduation [+see also:
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Q&A: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Cristian Mungiu
film profile] (2016, Best Director Award at Cannes) and R.M.N. [+see also:
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interview: Judith State
film profile] (2022).
Mohammad Rasoulof is one of the most prominent independent directors in modern Iranian cinema. He has received more than 80 international awards, including the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2020 for There Is No Evil [+see also:
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film profile], was unveiled at Cannes in 2024, where it scooped the Special Jury Prize, and was put forward as Germany’s entry for the Oscar for Best International Film.
Fernanda Torres, a Brazilian actress, author and screenwriter, has worked with directors of the likes of Bruno Barreto, Andrucha Waddington and Walter Salles, among others, and won the Palme d'Or for Best Actress for Love Me Forever or Never by Arnaldo Jabor in 1986. In 2024, Salles’ I’m Still Here [+see also:
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film profile] won the Best Screenplay Award at Venice, followed by the Oscar for Best International Film. For her performance, Torres garnered an Oscar nod and won a Golden Globe. In October 2025, she will take part in the shoot for The Brokers, based on her own screenplay and directed by Andrucha Waddington.
Finally, Zhao Tao is a Chinese actress known primarily for her collaborations with her husband, director Jia Zhang-Ke, right from his feature debut with Platform (2000), which was presented at Venice, through Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), Still Life (2006, Golden Lion at Venice), A Touch of Sin (2013) and Mountains May Depart [+see also:
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interview: Andrea Segre
interview: Andrea Segre
film profile] (2012) by Andrea Segre, which premiered in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori.
(Translated from Italian)
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