Oscar-winning British actor Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah) has joined the jury for this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar, headed up by Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts).
Completing the five-person jury are Moroccan journalist Jihane Bougrine, French-Canadian cinematographer Josée Deshaies (Passages, The Beast), and Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara (Tiger Stripes, Autobiography).
Together, they will judge the competition titles for the 64th Critics’ Week, Cannes’ sidebar section for first and second features. The Critics’ Week runs May 14–22.
“[Cannes Critics’ Week] unequivocally demonstrates its commitment to supporting and believing in young filmmakers,” Sorogoyen said in a statement, emphasizing the importance of the section’s focus on new voices.
Sorogoyen made his feature debut in 2013 with Stockholm, co-written with Isabel Peña, kicking off a productive collaboration that has included May God Save Us (2016), The Candidate (2018), and Mother (2019), as well as The Beasts in 2022. The slow-burn thriller starring Marina Foïs and Denis Ménochet, marked Sorogoyen’s Cannes debut, going on to sweep Spain’s Goya Awards, winning nine, including best film and best director.
This year’s Critics’ Week jury will award the AMI Paris Grand Prize for best feature film, the French Touch Prize of the Jury, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award, and the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for best short film.
The full Critics’ Week lineup will be revealed on April 14.
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