Andrea Arnold is one of the regulars at the Croisette.
Triple awarded the jury prize for her feature films
Red Road
(2006),
Fish Tank
(2099) and
American Honey
(2016), member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, head of the jury for the Semaine de la critic, in 2014, the British director returns, for this 74th edition which will be held from July 6 to 17, once again in the role of decision maker.
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She will chair the Un certain regard selection, accompanied by filmmakers Mounia Meddour, Daniel Burman, Michael Covino and actress Elsa Zylberstein, to determine the winner among the twenty works in competition.
She succeeds Nadine Labaki, head of the jury in 2019.
Recognized worldwide for her realistic films with a social dimension, Andrea Arnold made a remarkable debut in the short film, notably with
Wasp,
who won an Oscar in 2005. It stars Zoë, a young single woman mother of four children in trouble.
After her first two feature films
Red Road
and
Fish Tank
, in 2011 she presented
Les Hauts de Hurlevent
, adapted from the novel by Emily Brontë, in preview at the Venice Film Festival. She will wait five years before resuming the camera with American Honey. She has filmed for the small screen, filming several episodes of the hit series
Big Little Lies
.
At his side, the filmmakers Michael Covino and Mounia Meddour both presented their first films at Un Certain Regard in 2019.
The
American director's
The Climb
then won the jury's
crush
and
the Franco-Algerian director's
Papicha
,
acclaimed by the criticism was awarded by the César for best first film, in 2020.
Director, producer and screenwriter Daniel Burman is considered one of Argentina's most important filmmakers.
More closely linked to the Berlin Film Festival, his drama
The Son of Elias
won the Silver Bear in 2004.
A veteran of French cinema, Elsa Zylberstein began her career in 1992 with
Van Gogh
by Maurice Pialat, a role for which she won the Michel-Simon Prize and a César nomination for best female hope.
She recently starred in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's futuristic comedy, Big Bug, produced and soon to be broadcast on Netflix before playing Simone Veil in
Simone,
Olivier Dahan's
Journey of the Century
, scheduled for 2022.
The opening ceremony of the Un Certain Regard section will take place on Wednesday July 7, and the winners will be revealed on Friday July 16.
