Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh will function jury president of the worldwide competitors on the 78th Locarno Film Festival in August.
“Cinema gives the chance to find new views, cultures and tales,” Panh mentioned. “If we have now endurance, cinema rewards us with its grace. Cinema may protect historical past, affect mindsets, and supply an area for reflection and escape. I’m satisfied that the range of viewpoints and narrative experiences enriches our understanding of the world. Because the president of the jury, I want to spotlight movies that remember this variety and provide distinctive views.”
Giona A. Nazzaro, Locarno’s inventive director, mentioned: “Rithy Panh is broadly considered a key determine in Twentieth-century cinema. His gaze has reinvented the types of modern filmmaking, making a historiography in pictures that has exerted an incalculable affect on numerous movie administrators.
“As an authoritative witness of our time, his passionate seek for fact, his anti-dogmatic strategy, and his real dedication, in addition to his capability to maneuver freely between the quite a few types of present-day filmmaking have been the essential components that prompted us, spontaneously and enthusiastically, to supply him the duty of president of the jury of the Concorso Internazionale on the 78th Locarno Movie Competition.
“His inventive freedom and prolific, inexhaustible creativity make Mr. Rithy Panh the perfect determine to whom we are able to entrust these movies, thus getting ready them for the encounter with audiences from all around the world.”
Panh gained the Silver Berlin Bear in 2022 for excellent inventive contribution for “All the things Will Be OK” and gained the Berlinale documentary award for “Irradiés” in 2020. He was nominated for a BAFTA for greatest movie not within the English language for “First They Killed My Father” in 2018, and gained the Un Sure Regard Award in Cannes for “The Lacking Image” in 2013.
Panh’s most up-to-date movie, “Assembly With Pol Pot” (2024), starring Irène Jacob and Grégoire Colin, debuted final 12 months on the Cannes Movie Competition.
The 78th version of the Locarno Movie Competition takes place from Aug. 6-16.
