The organisers of the 83rd Venice Film Festival have invited Tunisian writer/director Kaouther Ben Hania to be one of the six jury members.
After studying film at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and La Fémis, Ben Hania directed her first short film, La Brèche, in 2004, alongside several other projects. In 2014 she moved into feature films, making The Challat of Tunis, followed by Zaineb Hates the Snow (2016). Her documentaries and fiction films have won numerous awards and achieved global success. Among her award-winning works, Four Daughters (2024) won the Golden Eye at the Cannes Film Festival, while The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
The jury president for this year’s festival will be American director, actor and script-writer Maggie Gyllenhaal. She will be joined by Johnnie To (director), Xavier Giannoli (director), Daniel Blumberg (composer) and Francesco Casetti (Yale University professor).
The festival line-up will be announced at a press conference on July 23rd and the event will take place this year from September 2nd to 12th.
Sources: Cinéma Tunisien, Euronews
