Another Cannes jury will be led by a woman filmmaker. According to Cineuropa, “M” director Yolande Zauberman has been tapped to chair the Golden Eye Jury, which evaluates the documentaries screening across the fest. The jury also selects the best doc and presents it with the Golden Eye prize.
Zauberman’s jury includes members such as actress-filmmaker Romane Bohringer (“L’amour flou”).
“M,” Zauberman’s most recent film, won the Special Jury Prize and the Junior Jury Award at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival. The documentary tells the story of a man who was sexually abused throughout his childhood in Bneï Brak, the world capital of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Zauberman won Cannes’ Award of the Youth for her 1993 feature “Ivan & Abraham.” Narrative pics “The War in Paris” and “Clubbed to Death (Lola)” and docs “Classified People” and “Paradise now – Journal d’une femme en crise” are among her other credits.
Cannes previously named Claire Denis (“Chocolat”) and Nadine Labaki (“Capernaum”) as the respective presidents of the Short Films and Cinéfondation and Un Certain Regard juries.
Cannes 2019 will take place May 14-25. The official lineup will be announced tomorrow, April 18.
