Just three weeks away from the kick-off of the 74^th Cannes Film Festival (6-17 July), the identity of the person set to chair the Un Certain Regard jury has now been unveiled. The task will be entrusted to British director Andrea Arnold (honoured with the Cannes Official Competition’s Jury Prize for the three films that she has presented there: Red Road [+leggi anche:
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She will be supported in her duties as the Un Certain Regard jury chair by French-Algerian filmmaker Mounia Meddour (who took part in this section in 2019 with Papicha [+leggi anche:
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The Un Certain Regard competition will bring together 20 features, 18 of which were announced initially (see the article). These have been bulked up by fresh additions La Traviata, My Brothers and I [+leggi anche:
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