An international jury headed by Shekhar Kapur (Jury Chairman has been set up
for deciding the Peacock awards in the ensuing edition of the International
Film Festival of India. Other members are Julia Jentsch ,Actress, Germany, JEON
Kyu-hwan ,Director, Korea, Michael Radford, Director/Screenwriter, UK, Suha
Arraf, Director- Screenwriter ,Palestinian

Julia
Jentsch began her acting career at Münchner Kammerspiele where she played
Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello and Sophocles' Antigone. In 2004, she had
her breakthrough with the movie The Edukators by Hans Weingartner.. For her
role as Sophie Scholl she won an award as Best European Actress, best actress
at Deutscher Filmpreis and the Silver Bear at Berlinale Film Festival. Julia
Jentsch played in Effie Briest (2009, Hermine Huntgeburth), The Strange Case of
Wilhelm Reich (2012, Antonin Svoboda), Hannah Arendt (2012, Margarethe von
Trotta) and The Have-Nots (2015, Florian Hofmeister).



Suha
Arraf Director, Screenwriter and Producer Suha Arraf was born in the
Palestinian village of Melyia, near Lebanon. She began her film career as a
documentary film-maker. Her docu-film Women of Hamas (2010) received 13 awards
at international film festivals. Suha's first two screenplays, The Syrian Bride
and Lemon Tree both directed by well-known director Eran Riklis, received international
acclaim, with the latter winning the Best Screenplay Award at the Asia Pacific
Screen Awards. Her first feature film Villa Touma (2014) was screened at top
festivals like Venice, Toronto, London, and many others. In 2014 Suha was
listed in Variety Magazine's "Top 10 Screenwriters to Watch".
Filmography Director 2004: Good Morning Jerusalem, Documentary 2007: Hard Ball,
Documentary 2010: Women of Hamas, Documentary 2014: Villa Touma, Feature
Screenwriter 2004: The Syrian Bride 2008: Lemon Tree 2014: Villa Touma.
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