Saed News: Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter Monia Chokri has been selected as the president of the Golden Camera (Caméra d’Or) jury at the 79th Cannes Film Festival.
According to SAEDNEWS, Monia Chokri will lead the Caméra d’Or jury at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. She and four other jury members will select the best debut feature film from works presented in the Official Selection, Critics’ Week, and Directors’ Fortnight. The winning film will be announced at the closing ceremony on Saturday, May 23.
Speaking about her appointment as jury president of the Caméra d’Or award, Monia Chokri said: “The first film is a dizzying experience, a decisive moment in which the soul seeks its form in images. It is a rebirth; the awakening of the artist within, and the more the film reveals itself to the world, the more power it gains. It is that rare freedom of being completely oneself.”
Monia Chokri made her first short film in 2013 titled An Extraordinary Person, starring Anne Dorval, which won several awards worldwide. After two feature films—A Brother’s Love, which was critically acclaimed in the Un Certain Regard section in 2019 and explores family ties and pressures on women, and Babysitter in 2022 about domination and contemporary misogyny—her third feature film The Nature of Love established Monia Chokri as a leading director of her generation.
This film, screened in the Un Certain Regard section in 2023, went on the following year to win the César Award for Best Foreign Film.
Monia Chokri will be joined by four members selected from organizations that form the Caméra d’Or jury each year: the French Society of Cinematographers, the French Film Critics’ Union, the Directors’ Guild, and the Federation of Film, Audiovisual and Multimedia Industries.
