French multi-hyphenate Julie Delpy can be honored with the Honorary Dragon Award on the 2025 Göteborg Movie Pageant, organizers introduced Thursday.
The veteran filmmaker and actor will attend the Swedish competition to current her newest directorial effort, the satire Meet the Barbarians, and take part in an on-stage dialog about her four-decade profession spanning each side of the digicam.
“Julie Delpy is a singular voice on the earth of movie. Her work blends humor, depth, and sensitivity in a method that resonates with audiences worldwide. She is a trailblazer and an inspiration — we’re really proud to honor her with this 12 months’s Honorary Dragon Award,” mentioned the Göteborg Movie Pageant’s creative director, Pia Lundberg.
The competition will current a four-film retrospective showcasing Delpy’s evolution from acclaimed actor to writer-director. This system consists of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors: White (1994), Richard Linklater’s Earlier than Dawn (1995), and two movies she directed: 2 Days in Paris (2007) and Lolo (2015).
Delpy first gained worldwide recognition for her performances in European artwork home movies — working with the likes of Kieslowski, Leos Carax (1986’s Unhealthy Blood) and Agnieszka Holland (1990’s Europa Europa) — earlier than breaking by to wider audiences with Earlier than Dawn, the primary installment in Linklater’s Earlier than trilogy. She later transitioned to directing with options showcasing her attribute mix of cultural commentary and relationship dynamics.
Delpy will obtain her Honorary Dragon Award on the Cinema Draken in Göteborg on Jan. 29, following the premiere of Meet the Barbarians. She is going to take part in a Q&A session after the screening.
The forty eighth Göteborg Movie Pageant runs Jan. 24-Feb. 2.