Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been introduced as president of the jury on the twenty first Marrakech Worldwide Movie Pageant, operating from November 29 to December 7.
The jury awards the Étoile d’Or to one of many 14 first and second movies within the worldwide competitors, current winners of which have included Asmae El Moudir’s Mom of all of the Lies (2023) and Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi’s A Story Of Shemroon (2022),
“On this quickly altering and more and more divided world, festivals reminiscent of Marrakech present a much-needed window into all kinds of cultures,” mentioned Vinterberg. “Movies can describe what can’t be defined. Make us perceive the unacceptable. And there’s certainly rather a lot to grasp proper now.”
Marrakech has sturdy connections with the Danish cinema world. Final yr it celebrated longtime Vinterberg collaborator Mads Mikkelsen with an honorary profession achievement award. He spoke fondly of his reference to the director in his masterclass.
Vinterberg beforehand served as a member of the Marrakech jury in 2015 below the presidency of Francis Ford Coppola, alongside Anton Corbijn and Naomi Kawase amongst others.
His work was additionally feted by the competition as a part of a tribute to Scandinavian cinema in 2013, which featured his 2012 movie The Hunt amongst 43 options from the area.
The director has since gone on to make the Oscar-winning drama One other Spherical (2020), which additionally gained a BAFTA, French César, and 4 European Movie Awards. He was additionally nominated for greatest director within the Academy Awards, which was a primary for Danish director.
He’ll arrive in Marrakech having simply launched his first ever mini-series Households Like Ours, which world premiered in Venice forward of its launch in Denmark in October.
A co-founder with Lars von Trier of the Danish Dogme 95 motion within the mid Nineteen Nineties, Vinterberg’s different celebrated credit embody The Celebration (1998), It’s All About Love (2003), Expensive Wendy (2005),When a Man Comes Dwelling (2007) and Submarino (2010), Removed from the Madding Crown (2015) and The Commune (2016).
Vinterberg has additionally written and directed critically acclaimed performs for the nationwide stage at Austria’s Burgtheater Wien, which have performed to sold-out audiences round Europe. He has additionally directed music movies for bands together with Blur and Metallica.
