Born in Salta, Argentina, in 1966, she garnered widespread acclaim with her first feature film La Ciénaga (The Swamp) in 2001, followed by La niña santa (The Holy Girl) in 2004 and La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman) in 2008. Her fourth feature, Zama, an exploration of colonialism and racism, drew widespread acclaim at its premiere in the Venice International Film Festival in 2017. She has also shown interest as an artist outside the cinematic field. Her latest collaboration was the direction of Björk’s concert Cornucopia at The Shed, acknowledged as the most elaborate show ever given by the Icelandic artist.A traveling retrospective of Martel’s work was launched in 2018 at New York’s Lincoln Center, together with a series of master classes about sound and perception that brought the filmmaker to numerous film festivals and several of the most prestigious arts and cultural institutions of the world. In 2019, Martel was chosen as President of the Venice International Film Festival Jury. Special Guests 2025 Oliver Laxe Robin Campillo Jafar Panahi Juliette Binoche Special Guests in Other Editions Francis Ford Coppola Ira Sachs Liv Tyler Alexander Payne James Ivory Ava DuVernay Leos Carax Kathleen Kennedy Jodie Foster James Ivory Luis Mandoki Jerry Schatzberg Maribel Verdú Laurent Cantet Frank Marshall Claire Denis Barry Jenkins Ciro Guerra en Rosalie Varda J. M. Coetzee Luc Dardenne Robert Redford Alfonso Cuarón Damien Chazelle Paul Weitz Patrice Leconte Julie Bertuccelli Carol Littleton John Bailey Olivier Assayas Lynne Ramsay Al Gore Michel Hazanavicius Bob Rafelson Fred Kelemen Aaron Eckhart Casey Affleck Giada Colagrande Audrey Tautou Isabelle Huppert Tim Roth Rodrigo García Peter Greenaway Pawel Pawlikowski Pierre Rissient Amos Gitai Juliette Binoche Edward James Olmos Robert Rodriguez John Sayles Alejandro Jodorowsky Danny Trejo Bruno Dumont Quentin Tarantino Pablo Larraín José María Prado Whit Stillman Dieter Kosslick Geraldine Chaplin Seifollah Samadian Gregory Nava Sally Potter Abbas Kiarostami Damián Alcázar Demián Bichir Elena Anaya Thierry Frémaux Marisa Paredes Michel Gondry Volker Schlöndorff Luis Valdez Béla Tarr Lucrecia Martel Javier Bardem Edgar Ramírez Fernando Trueba Doris Dörrie Serge Bromberg Terry Gilliam Julio Alemán Kelly Reichardt Jennifer Lawrence Steven Soderbergh Michael Nyman Nicolas Philibert Todd Haynes Stephen Frears Héctor Babenco Gael García Bernal Carlos Reygadas Alejandro González Iñárritu Cristian Mungiu Bertrand Tavernier Arthur Penn Jean-Claude Carrière Guillermo del Toro Mike Hodges Diego Luna Tommy Lee Jones Valeria Sarmiento Raúl Ruiz Gus Van Sant Manoel De Oliveira Fernando Vallejo Julia Ormond Salma Hayek Werner Herzog Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck Barbet Schroeder Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón Casey Affleck
Born in Salta, Argentina, in 1966, she garnered widespread acclaim with her first feature film La Ciénaga (The Swamp) in 2001, followed by La niña santa (The Holy Girl) in 2004 and La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman) in 2008. Her fourth feature, Zama, an exploration of colonialism and racism, drew widespread acclaim at its premiere in the Venice International Film Festival in 2017. She has also shown interest as an artist outside the cinematic field. Her latest collaboration was the direction of Björk’s concert Cornucopia at The Shed, acknowledged as the most elaborate show ever given by the Icelandic artist.A traveling retrospective of Martel’s work was launched in 2018 at New York’s Lincoln Center, together with a series of master classes about sound and perception that brought the filmmaker to numerous film festivals and several of the most prestigious arts and cultural institutions of the world. In 2019, Martel was chosen as President of the Venice International Film Festival Jury.
