Elliott Gould will chair this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival international feature competition jury, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Gould will preside over a three-member jury including indie producer and former Karlovy Vary International Film Festival program director Julietta Sichel and filmmaker Lav Diaz, whose latest film, Florentina Hubaldo, CTE will unspool during the EIFF's Philippine New Wave strand.
The international feature competition winner will come from a selection of movies from around the world and also includes, for the first time, documentary films alongside narrative films.
The nominees for the best international feature nod are: Clarissa Campolina and Helvécio Marins Jr’s Girimunho, Mao Mao’s Here, Then, Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal’s It Looks Pretty From A Distance, David Zellner’s Kid-Thing, Yeon Sang-ho’s The King of Pigs, Alexandre O Philippe’s The Life and Times of Paul The Psychic Octopus, Maite Alberdi’s The Lifeguard, Mania Akbari’s One.Two.One, Gastón Solnicki’s Papirosen, Oskar Alegria’s The Search For Emak Bakia, Jang Kun-jae’s Sleepless Night, Miguel Gomes’ Tabu, Dan Sallitt’s The Unspeakable Act and A Woman's Revenge by Rita Azevedo Gomes.
The winner of the award in 2010 was Ryan Piers Williams' The Dry Land.
One of the first and headline grabbing moves made by incoming artistic director Chris Fujiwara was to re-introduce the competitive elements of the long-running Scottish festival for this year's edition.
Oscar winner Jim Broadbent will chair this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Michael Powell award competition jury.
