The international jury 2010
The five members of the international jury of the 24th Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) have been announced. They are actress Hanna Schygulla (Germany), filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (Iran) and her colleague Igor Minaev (Ukraine), as well as film critics and journalists Michel Ciment (France) and Patrick Ferla (Switzerland).
Film and stage actress, singer and director Hanna Schygulla was born in Germany in 1943. In the late Sixties, she met Rainer Werner Fassbinder during her studies at the Munich Acting School. Hanna Schygulla shot her first films with him, and rapidly became one of the most sought-after German actresses. This year, the 60th Berlin Film Festival will award Hanna Schygulla the Honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement.
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad was born in Teheran in 1954, and is considered one of today's leading Iranian filmmakers. Her films often deal with taboos, and were awarded numerous international distinctions.
Born in France in 1938, Michel Ciment is a writer, journalist, president emeritus of the International Association of Film Journalists FIPRESCI and a key contributor to the film magazine Positif. A prominent film critic, Ciment is also recognised as a leading authority on American culture and has written books on Stanley Kubrick, Kazan, Rosi, Losey and Fritz Lang.
Since many years, Patrick Ferla has enjoyed the reputation of a cult figure of French-speaking Switzerland's cultural and media landscape. This status was partly attained due to his role as producer and presenter of the program Presque rien sur presque tout on Radio Suisse Romande La Première. A great cinema aficionado, Ferla's work has widely contributed to the visibility of films such as those supported by the FIFF.
Filmmaker Igor Minaev, was born in the Ukraine in 1954. Following his film studies in Kiev, he worked at the Odessa studios. During the Perestroika, he left his country to settle down in Paris, where he now works as a professor for film, a stage director and a filmmaker. However, the majority of his films - amongst which Navodneniye (The Flood starring Isabelle Huppert) and Dalecko ot Sanset Bulvara (Far From Sunset Boulevard - are still shot in Russia.
