The Jury 2022

Agnieszka Holland

Jury President, Filmmaker

Agnieszka Holland began her film career working with Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda. Her first feature film, Provincial Actors (1978), won the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980. She directed Angry Harvest (1985) which was nominated for a foreign-language Oscar. Her film Europa Europa (1990) also received an Academy Award nomination (best screenplay) and ln Darkness (2011) was again nominated as best foreign-language film. She collaborated with her friend Krzysztof Kieslowski on the screenplay of his trilogy Three Colours (1993). Holland's other films include To Kill a Priest (1988), Olivier, Olivier (1992), The Secret Garden (1993), Total Eclipse (1995), Washington Square (1997), The Third Miracle (1999), Copying Beethoven (2006), Spoor (2017), Mr. Jones (2019) and Charlatan (2020). She also directed several episodes of many notable TV series and written or co-written screenplays for films made by other directors. Honorary President of the Federation of European Screen Directors (FERA) since 2019, she was elected President of the European Film Academy (EFA) in 2021.

Pierre Deladonchamps

Actor

Pierre Deladonchamps was noticed in 2013 in L'Inconnu du Lac by Alain Guiraudie, which earned him the César for Most Promising Actor in 2014. After a nomination in 2017 for Best Actor César for Philippe Lioret's Le Fils de Jean, he plays alongside André Téchiné in Nos Années Folles the role of a soldier deserter who cross-dresses. In 2018 he attends Cannes Festival with two feature films: Plaire, aimer et courir vite by Christophe Honoré in the official selection and Les Chatouilles by Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer in the category Un Certain Regard. In 2021, the actor delivers a memorable performance as a serial killer in Vaurien by Peter Dourountzis (Cannes 2020 label) and plays the famous 19th century builder’s precious ally in Eiffel by Martin Bourboulon. He will soon be appearing in Hawaii, a comedy by Mélissa Drigeard, as well as in an adaptation of Antoine Leiris' novel "Vous n'aurez pas ma haine".

Hicham Falah

General Director FIDADOC

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière (Paris) and the Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris), Hicham Falah is a chief operator, author-director, producer and programmer. Since 2008, he has been the artistic director of the Salé International Women's Film Festival (Morocco) and since 2012, the general director of the Agadir International Documentary Film Festival (Morocco) and its training and artistic support programmes for emerging Moroccan and African filmmakers (FIDADOC Documentary BeeHive, its Pan-African writing residency and Produire au sud Agadir coproduction workshop). In 2018, he conceived and implemented Sisters in Film, an empowerment programme for women filmmakers in the MENA region. Since 2019, he is the artistic coordinator of SENTOO, a pan-African programme to support film creation and South-South co-productions, initiated and piloted by the Film Centres of several North and West African countries.

Iryna Tsilyk

Filmmaker

Iryna Tsilyk is Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and screenwriter. She has directed several fiction and documentary films. Her last film The Earth Is Blue as an Orange won the “Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary” at Sundance Film Festival 2020, as well as numerous other honors. The film has been officially selected to Berlinale film festival, IDFA “Best of Fest”, MoMA Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs and more than 100 other International film festivals. It will be released in France on June 8, 2022. At the moment, Tsilyk’s finishing her feature-length fiction film Rock. Paper. Grenade and is working on developing two new film projects. Moreover, Tsilyk is the author of 8 books published in Ukraine (poetry, prose, children books), some of her works were translated in several languages. During the years of Russo-Ukrainian war, Iryna has taken part in many different activities like literary readings, documentary shootings, tutoring for children etc. in the war zone in Donbas. Her recent poetry and films reflect this experience.

Alex Vicente

Film Critic

Alex Vicente is a culture journalist and film critic who works for the Spanish daily El País. He has written for French media such as Le Monde and Les Inrockuptibles, as well as Spanish media such as La Vanguardia, Público and Fotogramas. Since 2005, he has covered the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He was a member of the selection committee of the Semaine de la Critique in 2014 and participated in collective works for the festivals of San Sebastián, Gijón and Sitges, among others.