Venice Film Festival just announced their jury, TIFF’s Platform section trio should happen any day now, and we now have Locarno eyeballs on the different comps and le president for the Concorso Internazionale section at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival will be Belgium’s enfant terrible auteur filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz. Du Welz is best known for his Ardennes Trilogy of Calvaire (2004), Alleluia (2014) and Adoration (2019). He most recently directed the crime thriller Maldoror (read review).
Du Welz’s peer jury members will be producer Marco Alessi, actress Lolita Chammah, actress Paulina García and Olivier Père – Executive Director of ARTE France Cinéma. In the Concorso Cineasti del Presente section we find Afef Ben Mahmoud, Radovan Síbrt and filmmaker Margherita Spampinato, while the Pardi di Domani section will be judged by Mounia Akl (we interviewed her late last year), Steven Markovitz and Antonio Piazza. Locarnon dates are from the 5 to 15th of August.
