Italy, Spain, France, USA, Iran, Japan, Algeria. Venice 79 and Orizzonti jurors take their seats in the auditorium.
Julianne Moore | President
Actress (USA)
The first American actress to win the European triple crown of acting: at Berlin, Cannes, and Venice. A rock of modern filmmaking, whose career has been recognized countless times with prestigious awards for her interpretations in over seventy films.
Mariano Cohn
Director, screenwriter, producer (Argentina)
Cohn participated with his films, which include The Man Next Door (2009) and The Distinguished Citizen (2016), to the most important international festivals. They have been awarded a Goya and the Platinum and Ariel prizes for the Best Ibero-American Film. His latest work, Official Competition of 2021, starring Penélope Cruz and co-directed with Gaston Duprat, passed last year at Venice.
Leonardo Di Costanzo
Director, screenwriter (Italy)
A regular of the VFF, he participated in 2003 with A scuola and in 2012 with L’intervallo. In 2013, Di Costanzo is a panelist in the Orizzonti jury and his latest film, Ariaferma of 2021, had been presented last year at Venice, out of competition.
Audrey Diwan
Writer, journalist, screenwriter, director (France)
After her debut as an author, Diwan started an amazing journalistic career that brought her to the editorial direction desk at Stylist. The expressive potential of her writing found a way into filmmaking, especially movies on themes of social relevance, like L’événement of 2021, which won the Golden Lion last year at the Venice Film Festival.
Leila Hatami
Actress (Iran)
Iran, Switzerland, Iran. Electrical engineering, French literature, cinema. There’s so much going on in Leila Hatami’s life as there is diversity in her filmography. Her plastic, multi-faceted personality earned her a Silver Bear at the Berlinale with A Separation (2011) and the Best Actress Award at Karlovy Vary for her interpretation in The Last Step (2012).
Kazuo Ishiguro
Writer (Japan, UK)
Code word: revealing. His novels, starting with A Pale View of Hills (1982) and The Remains of the Day (1989), are the disenchanted, revealing mirror of the exacerbated mix of pain, solitude, utopia, disillusionment that befall human relationships. Ishiguro’s dreamlike, rarefied, yet concrete prose eviscerate the mind’s most obscure doubts.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo
Director, screenwriter, producer (Spain)
A promising career, especially given the surname. His grandfather was a director, and today, Rodrigo is an accomplished producer: an Oscar nomination for short movie Mother (2017) and seven Goya Awards for The Realm (2018). His latest movie, a powerful hybrid of drama and thriller, is Mother (2019), the natural prosecution of the erstwhile short.
Isabel Coixet Castillo | President
Director, screenwriter (Spain)
His cinema is synonymous with a immersive sensorial experience, oscillating between the two extremes of the complexity of the real. Films like My Life Without Me (2002) and The Secret Life of Words (2005) are the representation of a kind of existentialist filmmaking where the individual is seen in the isolation of disease and health, of tragedy and happiness. Underlying all of it, continually, is a persistent feeling of emptiness.
Laura Bispuri
Director (Italy)
Rome has been her home port for over forty years: her hometown, her place of education, and the city that saw her grow up. Berlin is an exciting new step, which brought her at the centre of international cinema with Sworn Virgin (2015), a description of female universes stuck in society’s complicated games. In 2021, her The Peacock’s Paradise was shortlisted at Orizzonti.
Antonio Campos
Director, screenwriter, producer (USA)
Inspecting and translating the evil within the protagonists, never letting humanity through, is his favourite way of filmmaking. Buy It Now (2005) won the first prize at the Cinéfondation in Cannes, and his first feature film, Aferschool, was presented in 2008 – again at Cannes. His latest film, The Devil All the Time was released on Netflix in 2020.
Sofia Djama
Director, writer (Algeria)
The first short movie of this important figure for women’s emancipation in African cinema is Limply, one Saturday morning (2012), an adaptation of one of her short stories. The novelist won the Brian Award and the Lina Mangiacapre Award in 2017 – the same year she presented her first feature film, Les bienheureux.
Edouard Waintrop
Artistic director, film critics (France)
After his stint as art director at the Fribourg Festival and the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival, Venice nominated him as juror this year. Waintrop’s career includes a twenty-plus-year-long collaboration with French daily paper Libération. A cinema critic with across-the-board competence..
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