Respect: Jessica Hausner

Jessica Hausner was born in Vienna in 1972. She studied directing at the Film Academy of Vienna where she made the award-winning short films Flora (1996)
and Interview (1999). Her debut feature film Lovely Rita premiered in Cannes in Un Certain Regard in 2001. She returned to Un Certain Regard in 2004 with her second
feature, Hotel. In 2009, Lourdes was selected in Competition at the Venice Film
Festival where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize. Amour Fou (2014) premiered
in Un Certain Regard and Little Joe (2019), Jessica Hausner’s fifth feature film and her English language debut, in Competition at Cannes where Emily Beecham received the “Prix d’interprétation féminine” for Best Actress. Her latest film Club Zero (2023) world premiered in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.