‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Cinematographer Yorick Le Saux to Receive Robby Müller Award

French cinematographer Yorick Le Saux, whose recent films include “Father Mother Sister Brother” and “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” will be the recipient of the Robby Müller Award. Le Saux will be presented with the award at the 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which runs Jan. 29-Feb. 8.

The award, which acknowledges the “artistry of an exceptional image maker,” is given in collaboration with the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers and Andrea Müller-Schirmer.

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“Father Mother Sister Brother” and “The Wizard of the Kremlin” will feature in the festival’s Limelight strand.

Le Saux is best known for his collaboration with Olivier Assayas (“Carlos,” “Clouds of Sils Maria” and “Personal Shopper”) and François Ozon (“Swimming Pool” and “5×2”). His body of work also includes “I Am Love” by Luca Guadagnino, “Only Lovers Left Alive” by Jim Jarmusch, “High Life” by Claire Denis, “Little Women” by Greta Gerwig and “Blitz” by Steve McQueen.

The jury for this year’s Robby Müller Award noted: “Yorick Le Saux’s visual language is defined by close observation and a deep attachment to reality, supporting and elevating the story without ever overshadowing it. With a clear sense of rhythm, atmosphere, and emotion, he adapts effortlessly to a wide range of genres, narratives, and aesthetics.”

Rotterdam has also announced the jury lineups across its three competition strands.

The jury of the Tiger Competition, which “celebrates the innovative and adventurous spirit of up-and-coming filmmakers,” includes Iranian filmmaker and actress Soheila Golestani, recognized for her performance in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Academy Award nominated “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (2024); Brazilian film director, screenwriter and visual artist Marcelo Gomes, known for “Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures” (Cannes, 2005), “Portrait of a Certain Orient” (IFFR, 2024) and “Dolores” (2025, co-directed with Maria Clara Escobar); and Greek-French actress and director Ariane Labed, who is known for starring in “Attenberg” (2010), Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Alps” (2011) and “The Lobster” (2015), and who recently made her directorial debut with “September Says” (Cannes, 2024); Kristy Matheson, BFI festivals director, and formerly the creative director of the Edinburgh Film Festival and director of film at Australia’s national museum of screen culture, ACMI; and Jurica Pavičić, Croatian novelist, screenwriter, short story writer, journalist and film critic.

The Tiger Short Competition jury is composed of Sammy Baloji, a director and photographer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who won the Special Jury Prize in the Tiger Competition at IFFR 2025 for “L’arbre de l’authenticité”; Anka Gujabidze, a visual artist from Tbilisi, whose first film “Temo Re” received the Tiger Short Award and KNF Award at IFFR 2025; and Jukka-Pekka Laakso, the festival director of Tampere Film Festival and executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre in Tampere.

The jury of the Big Screen Competition, whose lineup “bridges popular, classic, and arthouse cinema,” brings together Yemeni-Scottish director and screenwriter Sara Ishaq; Dutch actress Loes Luca; Chris Oosterom, the director of Imagine Film Festival; Mila Schlingemann, senior programmer and acquisitions at EYE, the national museum for film and the art of moving image in the Netherlands; and Dutch director and actor Jan-Willem van Ewijk.