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Getty Images Belgian filmmaker Fabrice du Welz will preside over the jury for the international competition at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, part of a full slate of juries the festival has revealed across its sections.
Du Welz has made nine features that have screened at major festivals; Locarno has shown two of them, “Adoration” on the Piazza Grande in 2019 and “The Passion According to Béatrice,” out of competition in 2024. He is joined on the jury by Italian producer Marco Alessi, founder of Rome-based Dugong Films, whose credits include work with directors Stefano Savona, Yuri Ancarani and Rä di Martino and who produced Bertrand Mandico’s “Roma Elastica,” playing out of competition in Locarno this year. Rounding out the panel are French actor Lolita Chammah, whose career includes collaborations with Claude Chabrol, Werner Schroeter, Claire Denis, Claire Simon and Benoît Jacquot; Chilean actor Paulina García, who won the Silver Bear for “Gloria” in 2013; and Olivier Père, who previously served as artistic director at Locarno and as general delegate of the Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, and who now heads the cinema unit at Arte France Cinéma as executive director, a post he has held since 2012.
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