The Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron, president of the official jury of the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, today called on European countries receiving immigrants arriving in their territories.
a short speech in Italian during the official opening of the “Mostra”, which took place Wednesday night, Cuarón recalled that he resides in Europe.
“I live in Europe, where have been welcome, Europe would give the same welcome to immigrants, “said the director of” Gravity “in times when the Old Continent is facing a serious crisis by the arrival of thousands of refugees.
Earlier, during a press conference in which he was presented the “Mostra” Cuaron said he was very interested in young talent, especially in Mexico.
“There is now a generation that makes more interesting than ours cinema” , he said in relation to the tapes made by him and some of his generation, as Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo del Toro.
“This generation of Alejandro (Gonzalez Inarritu), Guillermo (Del Toro) and I, is an old generation, “he quipped.
It also considered that, as a jury of the festival should be” open to diversity of ideas and proposals “and that the important thing is to keep the” innocence ” and “be surprised”.
On the absence of films from Mexico in the main section of the “Mostra” director Alberto Barbera stressed that two films in other sections of the country are presented as “A thousand-headed monster “by Rodrigo Pla, and” the street of the bitterness “of Artuto Ripstein.
He recalled that Pla, Uruguayan-born, was awarded in 2007 for” The Zone “, the opera premium, and now returns with 75 minutes “very intense”.
Cuarón chairs the jury of the Section “Venezia 72″, which also includes Francesco Munzi filmmakers, Emmanuel Carrère, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Pawel Pawlikowski, along with actresses Elizabeth Banks and Diane Kruger and writer Lynne Ramsay.
The jury of the “Orizzonti” section is headed by director Jonathan Demme and includes Alix filmmakers Delaporte, Fruit Chan and actresses Paz Vega and Anita Caprioli.
Meanwhile, the jury of the “Venezia Opera Prima Luigi De Laurentis Award”, is headed by Italian director Saverio Costanzo.
This section also includes Mexican journalist Daniela Michel, founder and director of the Festival of Morelia; Hong Kong producer Roger Garcia, Natacha Laurent French critics and the American filmmaker Charles Burnett.
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