Cannes 2021: Mélanie Thierry is President of the Caméra d’or jury

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The French actress Mélanie Thierry will be the President of the 2021 Caméra d’or that will award a first feature film selected at the Festival de Cannes

French actress Mélanie Thierry has been selected to head the jury for this year’s Caméra d’or of the 74th Cannes Film Festival. She she will be surrounded by representatives of the industry (press, industry, filmmakers associations) as well as a guest artist.

The Caméra d’or, created in 1978, is awarded to the best first feature presented at the Official selection, la Semaine de la Critique or the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. Aiming to support young creatives, this award acts as a career booster for filmmakers, granting them a spotlight and a door to an international exposure. In the past, it was given to Jim Jarmusch, Mira Nair, Jaco Van Dormael, Naomi Kawase, Bahman Ghobadi, Steve McQueen. In 2016, Houda Benyamina won it for Divines, in 2017, Léonor Serraille for Jeune femme, in 2018 Lukas Dhont for Girl and in 2019, César Diaz for Nuestras Madres. The Caméra d’or 2021 is to be awarded by the President of the Jury during the award ceremony on Saturday, July 17th.

Joining Thierry will be:

For the FICAM (Fédération des industries du Cinéma, de l’Audiovisuel et du Multimédia) : Audrey Abiven, CEO of Tri Tracks (post-synchronization for feature films company) and producer.

For the AFC (Association française des directeurs de la photographie cinématographique) : Laurent Dailland, director of photography.

For the SRF (Société des Réalisateurs de Films) : Romain Cogitore, director, screenwriter and photographer

For the SFCC (Syndicat français de la critique de films) : Pierre-Simon Gutman, film critic, deputy chief editor of L’Avant-Seine Cinéma.

Guest: Eric Caravaca, actor and director.

List of the 31 films competing for the Caméra d’or
Sélection officielle
C.B. Yi – Moneyboys
Géssica Généus – Freda
Valdimar Jóhannsson – Lamb
Yohan Manca – Mes frères et moi
Teodora Ana Mihai – La Civil
Na Jiazuo – Gaey Wa’r
Laura Wandel – Un monde
Noémie Merlant – Mi iubita, mon amour
Maxime Roy – Les Héroïques
Wen Shipei – Are You Lonesome Tonight ?

Semaine de la Critique
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed – The Gravedigger’s Wife
Omar El Zohairy – Feathers
Elie Grappe – Olga
Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre – Rien à foutre
Simón Mesa Soto – Amparo
Clara Roquet – Libertad
Laura Samani – Piccolo Corpo
Constance Meyer – Robuste
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet – Les Amours d’Anaïs
Sandrine Kiberlain – Une jeune fille qui va bien
Vincent Le Port – Bruno Reidal

La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović – Murina
Nathalie Alvares Mesen – Clara Sola
Luàna Bajrami – Luaneshat e Kodrës (La colline où rugissent les lionnes)
Vincent Maël Cardona – Les Magnétiques
Ely Dagher – The Sea Ahead
Payal kapadia – A Night of Knowing Nothing
Panah Panahi – Jadde Khaki (Hit the Road)
Yassine Qnia – De bas étage
Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis – Re Granchio
Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman – Neptune Frost

Photo: Sabine Villiard

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