The Venice Film Festival (August 28 – September 7) has appointed The Headless Woman and Zama director Lucrecia Martel as president of the international jury for its 76th edition. Martel and h…
Martel and her jury will assign the Golden Lion for best film, as well as other awards. The choice was approved by board of directors of the festival, chaired by Paolo Baratta, at the recommendation of festival artistic director Alberto Barbera. “It’s an honor, a responsibility, and a pleasure to be a part of this celebration of cinema, of humanity’s immense desire to understand itself.”
Barbera commented that, “Four feature films and a handful of shorts, in just under two decades, have been enough to make Lucrecia Martel Latin America’s most important female director, and one of the top worldwide. In her films, the originality of her stylistic research and her meticulous mise-en-scène are at the service of a worldview free of compromises, dedicated to exploring the mysteries of female sexuality and the dynamics of groups and classes.
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