19/04/2022 - The jury of the parallel section, which will be presided over by the Tunisian filmmaker, also includes Ariane Labed, Benedikt Erlingsson, Benoît Debie and Huh Moon yung

Tasked with handing out the Grand Prize in the 61^st Critics’ Week, which is set to unspool from 18-26 May as an integral part of the 75^th Cannes Film Festival, the jury will be chaired by Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (who previously paid a visit to the Croisette in Un Certain Regard in 2017 with Beauty and the Dogs [+see also:
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film profile], which was nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film). She will thus follow in the footsteps of previous jury heads Joachim Trier, Lee Chang-dong, Bertrand Bonello, Miguel Gomes, Andrea Arnold, Ronit Elkabetz, Valérie Donzelli, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Ciro Guerra and Cristian Mungiu.

Kaouther Ben Hania will be backed up by French-Greek actress Ariane Labed, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, Belgian DoP Benoît Debie and South Korean journalist (and head of the Busan International Film Festival) Huh Moon yung.

The jury will hand out the Critics’ Week Grand Prize and the brand-new French Touch Prize of the Jury to one of the features in competition, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award to the best actor or actress, and the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for Short Film.

The Critics’ Week selection will be unveiled online in the late morning tomorrow, Wednesday 20 April.

(Translated from French)