Mézières, who will award the Palmera de Oro to the best film and the rest of the official awards of the Official Selection, maintained a long professional relationship with Alain Tanner throughout five films, including Una llama en mi corazón (1987), El Diary of Lady M (1993) and Flowers of Blood (2002), which she signed as co-editor. In addition, she is the author of the book The sun has a date with the moon (2018). Coinciding with his presence at the Mostra, he will attend a special screening of Flowers of Blood, which turns 20 and was partially filmed in the town of l’Alcúdia. She will also present Tinta, her latest short film as a director.
The Palestinian director and screenwriter Najwa Najjar, a member of the Hollywood Academy, made her feature film debut with Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009), awarded in San Sebastián, followed by Eyes of a Thief (2014), chosen as a Palestinian candidate for the Oscar. His third film, Between Heaven and Earth (2019), won the Best Screenplay award in Cairo and was selected for the 2020 European Film Academy Awards.
The independent producer born in Cox Marina Perales Marhuenda has developed a long international career, which culminated in the creation of La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma in Paris, with which it has produced films by Ruben Östlund, Jessica Hausner, Chema García Ibarra or Michelangelo Frammartino, selected and awarded at the Cannes, Berlin, Locarno or Rotterdam festivals, among others.
“In the vein of previous editions, the people who make up the Mostra jury, all of them of proven international prestige, embody the geographical and artistic diversity of Mediterranean cinema”, declared Gloria Tello, president of Mostra de València i Iniciatives Audiovisuals.
The jury is completed with the already announced Tarek Ben Chaabane, director of the Tunis Film Library and author of the book «The Tunisian cinema of yesterday and today», which has been translated into Spanish and Valencian this year by Mostra de València, in co-publishing with the IVC. And with the French composer Jean-Michel Bernard, author of soundtracks for films like The Science of Sleep or Rewind, Please, both by Michel Gondry.
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