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Rithy Panh to Serve as Jury President at Locarno Film Festival
Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh will serve as jury president of the international competition at the 78th Locarno Film Festival in August.
His gaze has reinvented the forms of contemporary filmmaking, creating a historiography in images that has exerted an incalculable influence on countless film directors. “As an authoritative witness of our time, his passionate search for truth, his anti-dogmatic approach, and his genuine commitment, as well as his capacity to move freely between the numerous forms of present-day filmmaking were the crucial elements that prompted us, spontaneously and enthusiastically, to offer him the task of president of the jury of the Concorso Internazionale at the 78th Locarno Film Festival. “His artistic freedom and prolific, inexhaustible creativity make Mr. Rithy Panh the ideal figure to whom we can entrust those films, thus preparing them for the encounter with audiences from all over the world.”
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