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The Oscar-winning Danish director chairs the jury for the 21st edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival, which will be held from November 29 to December 7, 2024.
The jury will award the gold star to one of the 14 feature films, considered as the first or second film by its directors, which participate in the international competition dedicated to the discovery of world filmmakers.
For me, chairing the jury of the Marrakech International Film Festival is a great privilege and an honor. In today’s ever-changing and increasingly divided world, festivals such as the Marrakech Festival provide an important window into a wide range of cultures. Films can depict the unexplainable and, in doing so, make us aware of the unacceptable. “In this day and age, there are many things that we urgently need to understand. »Thomas Vinterberg declares this in a press release.
Since his notable entry onto the international cinema scene with the film “Celebration” (1998), for which he won the Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival when he was only twenty-eight years old, Thomas Vinterberg became one of the most famous men in international cinema. famous and successful European directors of our time. Vinterberg signs a work full of audacity which does not hesitate to question the dark aspects of human life and to bring them to light. He excelled at reinventing himself and creating surprises in each of his films.
Thomas Vinterberg was born on May 19, 1969 and lives in Copenhagen, the Danish capital. He is the first Danish filmmaker to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for his film “Another Round” (2020). He went on to win an Oscar, a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA), a César and four European films. Awards for this highly successful drama, in which he participated. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, before being selected in the competitions of the Toronto Film Festival and the San Sebastian Festival.
Thomas Vinterberg studied cinema at the National Film Institute of Denmark. In 1993, his graduation film “The Last Round” won numerous awards and was nominated for a student Oscar. Then his short film “The Child Who Walked Backwards” (1995) won several public prizes, notably during its participation in the Clermont-Ferrand Festival. A year later, he directed his first feature film, “Heroes” (1996).
In 1995, Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier wrote the Dogma 95 petition. In 1998, Vinterberg directed “Celebration”, the first film of this movement, which earned him, in addition to being crowned at the Cannes Film Festival, the Fassbinder Prize of European cinema awarded by the European Cinema Academy and the prize for best foreign language film. Awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle and the New York Film Critics Circle, in addition to numerous other awards around the world. In 2008, Vinterberg and von Trier, along with fellow Dogma Christian Levering and Søren Krage Jacobsen, received the European Cinema Prize at the European Film Awards for their outstanding European contributions to world cinema.
After that, Vinterberg directed two critically acclaimed English-language films: All About Love (2003), starring Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Sean Penn, and Dear Wendy (2005), written by Lars von Trier and in which he starred. : Jamie Bell. In 2007, he returned to directing in his original language with the film “When the Man Comes Home”, followed by the film “Submarino” (2010), selected to participate in the Berlin Film Festival and for which he won the prize. Nordic Film Council Best Film Award.
In 2012, Vinterberg directed the film “The Hunt,” starring Mads Mikkelsen, which was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It also won Best Foreign Film at the British Independent Film Awards. including Mads Mikkelsen received the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2015, Vinterberg directed Far from the Madding Crowd with Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts and Michael Sheen. In 2016, he wrote and directed the film “Local Community”, which won the European Cinema Prize and the Vilnius International Film Festival Prize. For her role in this film, Trine Dyrholm also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. Festival.
Thomas Vinterberg also wrote and directed several plays for the Burg National Theater in Vienna, which received great critical acclaim and were performed to record audiences in closed-door theaters across Europe. He has also directed music videos for international groups such as “Blur” and “Metallica”.
