Andrey Zvyagintsev to head SIFF jury, Ishu Patel to lead animation jury

NEW DELHI: Russian film-maker Andrey Zvyganitsev will be the president of this year’s Golden Goblet Awards jury at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF).

The Festival is being held from 13 to 21 June.

Zvyagintsev won Best Screenplay at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Leviathan. The film was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards. The drama, about one man’s crusade against his small town’s corrupt mayor, will screen at the festival this year.

The festival has also announced that this year’s Golden Goblet competition will have a Best Documentary and a Best Animation category. Malcolm Clarke and Ishu Patel will head the documentary and the animation jury, respectively.

This year’s SIFF edition will also include a Takakura Ken retrospective held in association with the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan Inc and the Tokyo International Film Festival.