Cannes 2024: Xavier Dolan named Un Certain Regard Jury President

Xavier Dolan will preside over the section of the 2024 Cannes Festival taking place this summer

Xavier Dolan a self-taught artist-writer, and Director, who made his debut at the age of 19 with ‘I Killed My Mother’ is officially the Jury President of Un Certain Regard segment of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

According to a press statement by Cannes Film Festival, Dolan, a self-taught filmmaker, made his feature directorial debut at 19 with I Killed My Mother, an adaptation of his own short story, which was chosen to represent Canada at the Academy Awards. He followed up that film with the 2010 romantic drama Heartbeats, which brought him into the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes at the age of 21. Two years after that, he returned with Laurence Anyways, which won Suzanne Clément the award for Best Actress.

Dolan returned to Cannes in 2014 with Mommy, his first film in Competition which won him the jury prize.

“I am humbled and delighted to return to Cannes as President of the Un Certain Regard Jury, even more than making films myself, discovering the work of talented filmmakers has always been at the very heart of both my personal and professional journeys. I see this as a responsibility, I’m assigned, the opportunity to focus with the members of the Un Certain Regard Jury on an essential aspect of the art of film: stories told truthfully,” says Xavier Dolan.