The Venice Film Festival has set the international jury for its 83rd version.
Becoming a member of jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal to select this 12 months’s Golden Lion winner are Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To, French director Xavier Giannoli, Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, British composer Daniel Blumberg and movie scholar Francesco Casetti.
Gyllenhaal was introduced as jury president in April. The actress-turned-director made her characteristic debut in Venice with The Lost Daughter in 2021, successful the pageant’s greatest screenplay award.
Ben Hania returns to Venice after successful the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize final 12 months for The Voice of Hind Rajab, which was additionally nominated for an Oscar.
Blumberg, gained the Oscar and BAFTA for his rating for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which premiered on the Lido in 2024, successful greatest director en path to 10 Oscar nominations and three wins. Blumberg has additionally composed music for Pompei: Under The Clouds and The Testomony of Ann Lee.
Sadat, who has lived in Hamburg since leaving Afghanistan following the autumn of Kabul in 2021, opened this 12 months’s Berlin Movie Competition along with her characteristic No Good Men. She is at the moment creating a five-film cycle primarily based on the writings of longtime collaborator Anwar Hashimi.
To returns to the Lido almost twenty years after serving on the Venice jury in 2008. 4 of his movies — Throw Down, Exiled, Mad Detective and Life With out Precept — have premiered in Venice.
Giannoli has had three options in competitors in Venice: Famous person (2012), Marguerite (2015), and Misplaced Illusions (2021). His newest characteristic, Les Rayons et les ombres, premiered earlier 12 months.
Casetti is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Movie and Media Research at Yale College and the creator of a number of books on cinema and media principle, together with The Lumière Galaxy and Screening Fears: On Protecting Media.
The 2026 jury will award the pageant’s most important competitors prizes, together with the Golden Lion for greatest movie, the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize, the Silver Lion for greatest director, the Coppa Volpi awards for greatest actress and actor, the Particular Jury Prize, greatest screenplay and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for a breakthrough performer.
