The Locarno Festival is pleased to present the twenty-one international film personalities who will make up Locarno70’s five juries. The newcomer is the jury for Signs of Life, a sidebar which from this year features one of the Festival’s official competitions: its films will no longer just be discovered by our audience, but also judged by a three-member jury.

The Jury of the Concorso internazionale

President: Olivier Assayas, Filmmaker (France)
Miguel Gomes, Filmmaker (Portugal)
Christos Konstantakopoulus, Producer (Greece)
Jean-Stéphane Bron, Filmmaker (Switzerland)
Birgit Minichmayr, Actress (Austria)

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The Jury of the Concorso Cineasti del presente 

President: Yousry Nasrallah, Filmmaker (Egypt)
Matías Piñeiro, Filmmaker (Argentina)
Paola Turci, Singer (Italy)
Katrin Pors, Producer (Denmark)
Johanna ter Steege, Actrice (Netherlands)

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The Jury of the Pardi di domani 

President: Sabine Azéma, Actress (France)
John Canciani, Artistic director (Switzerland)
Yuri Ancarani, Filmmaker (Italy)
Verónica Echegui, Actress (Spain)
Kristijonas Vildžiūnas, Filmmaker  (Lithuania)

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The Jury of Signs of Life 

Chris Fujiwara, Film critic and Programmer (Japan)
Jordan Cronk, Film critic and Programmer (Stati Uniti)
Maria Bonsanti, Programmer (Italy)

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The Jury of the First Feature 

Clarence Tsui, Film critic and Programmer (Hong Kong)
Birgit Kohler, Programmer (Germany)
Diego Batlle, Journalist (Argentina)

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