Academy Award-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg chairs the jury of the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival, which takes place from November 29th to December 7th, 2024.
The jury will award the Étoile d’Or to one of the 14 first and second features in the festival’s international competition, which is dedicated to the discovery of filmmakers from around the world.
“It’s a great privilege and an honor to have received the noble invitation from Marrakech International Film Festival to preside over the jury. In this rapidly changing and increasingly divided world, festivals such as Marrakech provide a much-needed window into a wide variety of cultures. Films can describe what cannot be explained. Make us understand the unacceptable. And there is indeed a lot to understand right now,” said Vinterberg when accepting the role as Jury President.
Since his remarkable entry onto the world cinema stage with The Celebration (1998), for which he won the Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes when he was just 28, Thomas Vinterberg has become one of the most celebrated European filmmakers of our time. The author of a daring body of work that questions and exposes the darker side of human nature, Vinterberg reinvents himself and surprises audiences with each of his films.
Born in 1969, Vinterberg is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker based in Copenhagen. He was nominated for the Oscar for Best Director for Another Round (2020), the first Danish filmmaker ever to receive this honor. He went on to win an Oscar, a BAFTA, a César, and four European Film Awards for the blockbuster drama, which had its premiere in Cannes and later screened at the Toronto and San Sebastián International Film Festivals.
