Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer Rodrigo Sorogoyen to be Jury President of the 63rd edition of La Semaine de la Critique.
Politically committed film director Rodrigo Sorogoyen sheds a harsh light on society, questions human nature, successfully bringing critics and the general public together around his work.
After his studying at Madrid’s ECAM film school, Rodrigo Sorogoyen wrote screenplays for TV series and co-directed his first film, 8 Dates, with Peris Romano. In 2011, he founded Caballo Films and directed his first solo feature film, Stockholm, co-writing the script with screenwriter Isabel Peña, who was to become his closest collaborator.
Together, they wrote staggeringly intense films: May God Save Us, The Realm, and Mother (the short film of the same name competed at the Oscars in 2017), The Madrilenian filmmaker made his début in Cannes with The Beasts, with Marina Foïs and Denis Ménochet, in the 2022 official selection. The film won 9 Goya Awards the next year, including that for Best Film and Best Director, as well as the César for Best Foreign Film.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen will give the Semaine de la Critique Grand Prize for best feature film, the French Touch Prize of the Jury, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for best actor or actress, and the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for best short film.
Accompanying him in his duties, Rwandan actress Eliane Umuhire (Augure by Baloji, My New Friends by André Téchiné, Haven of Grace by Vincent Maël Cardonna), French Producer Sylvie Pialat (Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako, Staying Vertical by Alain Guiraudie, The Whistlers by Corneliu Porumboiu), Belgian cinematographer Virginie Surdej (The Blue Caftan by Maryam Touzani, Our Mothers by César Díaz - 2019 Semaine de la Critique and Caméra d’Or, Casablanca Beats by Nabil Ayouch), as well as Canadian film critic and journalist Ben Croll.
The films selection of the 63rd edition will be unveiled on Monday 15, April.
La Semaine de la Critique will take place in Cannes
from the 15th to the 23rd of May.
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Rodrigo Sorogoyen's picture © RICCARDO GHILARDI