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Julia ducournau bio1/19/2024 ![]() ![]() Murina, which played in Directors' Fortnight, expands on the filmmaker's short film Into the Blue. India's Mira Nair ( Salaam Bombay!, 1988) and Hungary's Ildiko Enyedi ( My 20th Century, 1989) are among several other women who have had their names stamped on the trophy. ![]() The Camera d'or is one Cannes award (it was instituted in 1978) that has not blanked out female directors. The Croatian director's Murina won the Camera d'or, the Cannes Film Festival's award for the best debut film. Murina director Antoneta Alamat Kusijaanovic and her 18-year-old star Gracia Filipovic. She fights to unshackle herself from her father's hold even as the past casts a shadow. Unclenching the Fists tells the story of a young woman whose family has shifted to a nondescript mining town following traumatic events. Kovalenko, whose first film was Sofichka (2016), is a product of a workshop that Russian auteur Alexander Sokurov conducted in her remote hometown in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. Salvadoran-Mexican filmmaker earned a Special Mention from English director Andrea Arnold's jury for Prayers For The Stolen. French-Tunisian actress-director Hafsia Herzi took the Ensemble Prize for Bonne Mere ( Good Mother) and Romanian-Belgian director Teodora Ana Mihai snagged the Courage Prize for La Civil. However, this singular year, the 31-year-old rising star of Russian cinema wasn't the only woman in the section who won. Unbelievably, she is the first-ever female winner in the 24-year history of the prize. Kira Kovalenko's sophomore effort, Unclenching the Fists, was adjudged the best among the 20 titles that competed for the Un Certain Regard Prize. Kira Kovalenko during the making of Unclenching The Fists. The other two members were filmmaker Daniel Burman and director-producer-actor Michael Covino. The five-member Un Certain Regard Jury, too, had three women: president Andrea Arnold, director-screenwriter Mounia Meddour and actress Elsa Zylberstein. ![]() There is no way of knowing if the five women on the jury tilted the scales in favour of Julia Ducournau. Apart from the three other men on the panel - Kleber Mendonca Filho, Tahar Rahim and Song Kang-ho - the jury had Mati Diop, Mylene Farmer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hausner and Melanie Laurent. In Spike Lee's main International Feature Films Competition Jury, women constituted the majority - five out of nine - for the first time in the festival's history. When the curtains fell on the 12-day event, women made history, winning five of the major prizes handed out across the festival's sections. The festival's 74th edition, held in the shadow of a pandemic and returning after a gap year, made a concerted effort to address the issue. The Cannes Film Festival has for long, and not without reason, faced flak for the gender skew in its official selection and jury composition. This year, women won 5 of the major prizes handed at the film festival.However, the festival's 74th edition made an effort to address the issue.Cannes Film Festival has for long faced flak for the gender skew. ![]()
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