Swiss filmmaker Ursula Meier is set to preside over the Camera d’Or jury at the Cannes Film Festival, whose mission is to select the best first film presented in Cannes’ Official Selection, Critics’ Week or Directors’ Fortnight.
Meier is best known for directing “Home,” her feature debut, and “Sister,” which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012. “Radical and poetic, the first is a fable shot with pale light and warm photography. The second is a modern tale in the form of a sober and poignant family chronicle,” Cannes said, adding that, “since 1994, Ursula Meier has compiled a bold cinematography that emphasizes the complexity of the world.”
Reacting to her appointment as head of the Camera d’Or jury, Meier said: “A first film is the place of all possibilities, of all audacity, of all risk-taking, of all madness.”
“It is often said that you should...
Meier is best known for directing “Home,” her feature debut, and “Sister,” which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012. “Radical and poetic, the first is a fable shot with pale light and warm photography. The second is a modern tale in the form of a sober and poignant family chronicle,” Cannes said, adding that, “since 1994, Ursula Meier has compiled a bold cinematography that emphasizes the complexity of the world.”
Reacting to her appointment as head of the Camera d’Or jury, Meier said: “A first film is the place of all possibilities, of all audacity, of all risk-taking, of all madness.”
“It is often said that you should...
- 3/27/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety - Film News
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