Jury des fictions

Barbara Hendricks

President of the jury | Opera singer

After receiving a bachelor of science, Barbara Hendricks made her debut in 1974. Since then, she has performed on the world’s biggest stages and has been directed by the most prestigious conductors of our time. Her vast repertoire spans from baroque to contemporary opera, concert, chamber music and jazz. She is one of today’s best-selling artists and has made more than 100 recordings. In 2006, she created Arte Verum, her own label. A devoted human rights activist, she is the UNHCR’s Honorary Ambassador for Life. She played for Luigi Comencini in La Bohême, and for Amos Gitaï in Disengagement. She was a member of jury at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1999. Barbara Hendricks has patronned the FIFDH since its very first edition.

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Plantu

Press cartoonist

His first published cartoon, on the Vietnam war, appears in Le Monde in 1972, for which he eventually became a daily illustrator in 1985. Since 1991, he has published a weekly page in L’Express. That same year, he received the “Rare document prize” from the Festival du Scoop d’Angers, for having succeeded in obtaining the signatures of Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres on the same drawing, a year prior to the Oslo Agreements. In 2006, Plantu and Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, founded Cartooning for Peace, an association currently made of 130 illustrators, which defends freedom of expression for cartoonists worldwide.

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Philippe Djian

Novelist

Philippe Djian is a French novelist many of his books have been adapted for the screen, such as 37,2 le matin (Betty Blue), directed by Jean-Jacques Beinex. He won the Interallié Prize in 2012 for his novel Oh..., currently adapted on screen by Paul Verhoven. As a lyricist for Swiss artist Stéphane Eicher, he associated himself with him during literary concerts. Audacious and nomadic, he also signed a report on the army and the guerilla in Colombia and set up long-term residences in both New York and Martha’s Vineyard. His new novel, Dispersez-vous, ralliez-vous ! will be published in March 2016.

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Eme Temelkuran

Novelist and journalist

Ece Temelkuran is one of the most famous Turkish journalists. She has regularly contributed to the very popular national daily newspapers Cumhuriyet and Milliyet. She also collaborates regularly with CNN Türk. Her writing and opinion pieces in favour of women, political prisoners as well as kurdish and Armenian people garnered numerous prizes including the Pen Peace Awards 2001.

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Daniel Schweizer

Film director

Daniel Schweizer graduated at the Beaux-Arts Genève and the École Supérieure d’Études Cinématographiques of Paris. After working as assistant director for Swiss TV, he became an freelance director in 1993. His documentaries on right-wing groups and the skinhead movement, such Skinhead Attitude or White Terror, won international acclaim. He received the FIFDH’s Grand Prize in 2010 for Dirty Paradise, the first film of an ongoing series on Amazonian people. He is a lecturer in film at HEAD – Genève since 2005.

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Nabil Ayouch

Film director

Nabil Ayouch is one if the foremost Moroccan directors. Following Mektoub (1997), Ali Zaoua, Prince de la rue (2000, selected to represent Morocco at the Oscars), and after the outstanding international success of Whatever Lola Wants (2008) and Les Chevaux de Dieu (2012), he presented his latest film Much Loved (2015) at this year’s Cannes Festival. The film was censored in Morocco and Nabil Ayouch became the target of a vast smear campaign and death threats. He is also a founder of both the Moroccan coalition for cultural diversity (2003) and Media Films Développement (2006), which helps producers and scriptwriters from the south of the Mediterranea. Much Loved will screen at the FIFDH on March 7th.

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Marcela Zamora Chamorro

Film director

Marcela Zamora Chamorro is a Nicaraguan and Salvadoran filmmaker. After studying journalism in Costa Rica, she graduated from San Antonio de los Baños, a prestigious film school in Cuba. For over 12 years, she has directed many films, both fiction and documentary, that have been shown the world over, most notably Maria en la tierra de nadie (Maria in Nobody’s land) about migrants, and El Cuarto de los Huesos (Nobody’s Bones) on the disappeared people of Central America. She has also worked for Al Jazeera and Tele Sur. She heads the documentary section of Salvadorian digital newspaper El Faro.

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Aude Py

Scriptwriter

Holding both Swiss and French passports, Aude Py studied philosophy at the Sorbonne before becoming a scriptwriter. She notably collaborated on the writing of Christian Caron’s Joyeux Noël (2004) and Bertrand Bonello’s Tiresia, before earning a co-writer credit for Erick Zonca’s Julia, with Tilda Swinton in the title role. She has just co-signed the script for the upcoming adaptation of Jacques Chessex’s Un Juif pour l’exemple (A Jew must die), directed by Jacob Berger. She is currently completing the fiction short-film Splendid, codirected with Bruno Ulmer, which tackles the issue of undocumented migrants in Geneva.

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Philippe Cottier

Lawyer

Philippe Cottier is a swiss lawyer, member of the Hélène and Victor Barbour Foundation since 1995 and Secretary of the Foundation’s Council since 2005. He represents the foundation in the different cultural activities it is involved in. He has always held a strong interest in cinema and his participation in the Barbour Jury Prize for the FIFDH’s 2016 edition is proof of his continued artistic engagement.

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