Joachim Trier appointed jury president in Cannes
The Norwegian director will lead the jury of the Critics’ Week at this year’s film festival, which runs between 9-17 May
Norwegian director Joachim Trier, whose latest feature Thelma just received two top prizes from the Norwegian Film Critics – Best Actress (for Norwegian actress Eili Harboe) and Best Professional Job (for Norwegian composer Ola Fløttum’s musical score) – has been appointed jury president of the 57th Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique) at the Cannes International Film Festival, which takes place between 8-19 May. 9 to 17 May .
“We are delighted to award the jury presidency to a filmmaker whose body of work offers a sensitive, mature exploration of some of the great issues of his generation,” said the Cannes festival management.
Trier’s first selection for Cannes was his second feature, Oslo, August 31 (Oslo, 31. august), which was screening in the Un Certain Regard sidebar 2011. His third, the English-language Louder than Bombs, starring Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert, was in 2015 Norway’s first contender for the Palme d’Or in Cannes for 36 years and won later, ao, the Nordic Council’s Film Prize; it became Norway’s best-selling film of all times, licensed to more than 92 countries.
On the Critics’ Week jury he will be joined by US actress and director Chloë Sevigny, Argentinian award-winning actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, new Italian director of the Viennale Eva Sangiorgi and French culture journalist Augustin Trapenard.
They will award the Nespresso Grand Prize to one of the seven feature films in competition, the Leica Cine Discovery Prize to one of the 10 selected short films, and - for the first time - the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award to an actor or actress from one of the competing features. Committed to supporting emerging talent, the foundation has partnered up with the Critics’ Week to highlight the performer’s work in one of his/her first appearances on the silver screen.