Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and US producer and writer Joslyn Barnes of Louveture Films are among the among the jurors for the 2025 Locarno Film Festival (August 6-16).
Reygadas’ films include Cannes competition titles Silent Life and Battle In Heaven, while Barnes’ work as a producer includes Oscar-nominated documentaries Strong Island and Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, and she also co-wrote 2024 awards contender Nickel Boys.
Joining them on the festival’s international competition jury are Swiss actor Ursina Lardi, best known for Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon; and the Netherlands’ Renée Soutendijk, who won Locarno’s best actress prize in 2023 for Ena Sendijarević’s Sweet Dreams.
As previously announced, filmmaker Rithy Panh will serve as president of the main jury that awards the Golden Leopard to the filmmakers in the international competition.
Deciding the winner of the Filmmakers of the Present section for emerging directors in their first or second feature will be Indonesian actress Asmara Abigail; curator of film at MoMA Frances Hui; and All We Imagine As Light actor Kani Kusruti.
The jury for the Leopards of Tomorrow short films strand includes French-Egyptian director Jihan El Tahri; Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Mosese whose films include This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection and Ancestral Visions Of The Future; and Italian actress Sara Serraiocco, who appeared in 2024 Venice premiere Vermiglio.
The first feature award will be decided by The Man In The High Castle cinematographer James Hawkinson; producer Judith Lou Lévy, who has worked with Mati Diop and Nadav Lapid; and France’s Patricia Mazuy, director of 2022 Locarno title Saturn Bowling.
The Pardo Verde jury, honouring films contributing to environmental awareness, is composed of American filmmaker Michael Almereyda; Italy’s Martina Parenti, known for her documentaries co-directed with Massimo D’Anolfi; and Seta Thakur, from environmental foundation Wyss Academy for Nature.
The Locarno lineup was unveiled last week, featuring new films from Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche, Kamal Aljafari and Ben Rivers.
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