, the actor, writer, director, producer and regular Coen Brothers collaborator, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia ( ), ( ), and Belgian producer Diana Elbaum ( , ) will join Austrian director on the jury of the main competition section of the . They will decide the winner of the Pardo d’Oro — the Golden Leopard — in the Concorso Internazionale ( Competition) at of the Swiss film festival, which takes place Aug 7-17. Locarno organizers touted the lineup of jurors as including “some of the most distinctive voices of contemporary cinema.

” Nelson also stars in Vincent Grashaw’s , which premieres in the Fuori Concorso (Out of Competition) section of Locarno77. The jury deciding the winner of the Pardo d’Oro — Concorso Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present), the section for emerging directors with their first or second features, will be Nigerian filmmaker C.J.

“Fiery” Obasi, whose (2021) screened at Locarno74, French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actor Lina Soualem ( ) and former editor, scholar and artistic director of the Cannes Critics’ Week Charles Tesson. The jury tasked with honoring the best short films at Locarno are Italian scriptwriter, director and programmer Licia Eminenti, Malagasy curator, filmmaker, fashion designer and Madagascourt Film Festival founder Laza Razanajatovo, and French producer Juliette Schrameck ( , , ) Meanwhile, the winner of the Swatch First Feature Award at Locarno will be decided by Moroccan producer-director Kh.