Payal Kapadia, the Indian filmmaker whose All We Imagine as Light won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2024, will serve as president of the jury for the 65th Cannes Critics’ Week, running May 13-21 alongside the main festival.
Kapadia will be joined on the jury by Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin (Lurker), French singer-songwriter Oklou, Ghanaian-British producer Ama Ampadu (My Father’s Shadow) and journalist and Bangkok World Film Festival director Donsaron Kovitvanitcha.
Kapadia’s short films Afternoon Clouds and And What is the Summer Saying were selected at the Cinéfondation and the Berlinale, before her debut feature documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing went to Cannes in 2021, and won the L’Oeil d’Or for Best Documentary.
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