Carla Juri – Swiss Shooting Star in Berlin
With two Swiss Film Prizes, leading roles in “Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari” and “Feuchtgebiete” and selected as one of “Europe’s Hottest Young Actors” – Carla Juri’s career has progressed rapidly.
12.12.2012
With two Swiss Film Prizes, leading roles in “Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari” and “Feuchtgebiete” and selected as one of “Europe’s Hottest Young Actors” – Carla Juri’s career has progressed rapidly. The 27-year-old actress will be the Swiss Shooting Star at the 63rd Berlinale 2013. An international jury of European Film Promotion (EFP) has recently announced its selection of ten European actresses and actors as the Shooting Stars.
Carla Juri convinced the jury of her performance in the leading role of the Swiss fiction film “Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari” (Someone Like You): “She has a real talent for portraying people with secrets. Her seductively romantic face hides a fascinating ability for surprising audiences by never letting them guess what her character is going to do. In Xavier Koller’s feature film set at the beginning of the 20th century, Annemarie, whose family is proper and wealthy, falls in love with the young barber Kari, who was born with a cleft palate. For her performance in this leading role, Carla Juri won the Swiss Film Prize 2012 for Best Actress.
Rapid career
Carla Juri grew up in Ticino and studied acting in Los Angeles and London (2005-2010). Her first film role had already brought her success: she won the Swiss Film Prize in 2011 for her performance in Cihan Inan’s “180º.” Thanks to her multilingualism, Carla Juri has also appeared in films in Germany, England and Italy. In 2013 she will star in leading roles in the German film “Feuchtgebiete” (director: David Wnendt) and in English film “Fossil” (director: Alex Walker).
Europe‘s Hottest Young Actors
Apart from Carla Juri, the other Shootings Stars are: Laura Birn (Finland), Ada Condeescu (Rumania), Arta Dobroshi (Kosovo), Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (Denmark), Jure Henigman (Slovenia), Nermina Lukač (Sweden), Luca Marinelli (Italy), Saskia Rosendahl (Germany) and Christa Theret (France).
During the 63rd International Film Festival in Berlin (February 9-11, 2013) the young, talented European actors and actresses will be introduced to international professionals in the film industry and be in the limelight on Berlin’s Potsdam Square. This year the members of EFP nominated 27 actors and actresses.
International Jury
The members of the international jury include: German producer Bettina Brokemper, French journalist Thierry Chèze, British casting director Jina Jay, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher and Jasmila Žbanić, director and screenwriter from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
European Film Promotion
EFP is a pan-European film promotion organization located in Hamburg, and supported by the EU’s MEDIA Programme. It was founded in 1997 in Berlin, with SWISS FILMS as one of its founding members. Since its inception, EFP has taken numerous opportunities to organise high-profile events for European films, one of which is the unique, renowned Shooting Stars event.
Talent exchange for actors from all over Europe
Over the past fifteen years the Shooting Stars event has evolved into a label and become a talent exchange for actors and actresses from all over Europe. It has served as a stepping stone in the careers of many former Shooting Stars, including German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French actress Ludivine Sagnier, British actress Carey Mulligan and for the Swiss actors and actresses Carlos Leal, Mona Petri, Joel Basman, Nils Althaus and Max Hubacher.
Zurich, December 12, 2012