Italian director Ellis Rohrvakar, whose work “The Wonders,” “Happy Az Lazaro” and “La Chimera” competed in Cannes, will preside over the jury for the Camra D’Or Award of Cannes Film Festival. The award is given for the first work in the weeks of critics along with official selection.
Rohrvakar said in a statement, “The first time is always important and they live with us for the rest of our life.” “Like entering an unfamiliar room, reaching someone’s beloved for the first kissing, or landing on a foreign edge. Something golden that solves these moments in our memory. Is that the most prestigious award for the first films is called Camra D’Or?”
Rohrvakar’s prolonged coordination with Cannes made its first feature, which began with age play “Late Body” (“Corporate Celeste”), which launched in 2011 in a fortnight of directors and went to play many major festivals such as Sunandan and New York.
Her second feature, “The Wonders”, a look at a young girl growing in a bee farm, won the Grand Jury Award in the competition in Cannes in 2014. “Happy Az Lazaro,” the best about the infection of Italy for modernity from a rural society was tied for the award for the best script in 2018.
“La Chimera”, in which “The Crown” star Josh O’Coner plays the role of a young British archaeologist, who joins an international network of stolen atrous artifacts during the 1980s, is considered the third film in a trilogy formed with his two previous characteristics.
As announced earlier, Juliet Binoche will preside over the main jury, while Robert de Niro will receive this year’s honorary Palme D’Or. The festival will be held from 13 to 24 May.
