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Oscar and BAFTA winner Peter Straughan , who penned the screenplay for “ Conclave ,” will serve on the jury for the 2025 Women and the World International Film Festival , running Nov. 6-12 in London.

The festival returns with the theme Peace Strategies: Women as Agents of Security, building on last year’s momentum when Grand Prix winner “Porcelain War” earned an Academy Award nomination.

The jury includes British actors Daniel Ings (“The Gentlemen,” “The Crown”) and Tamara Lawrance (“The Silent Twins,” “Time”), Danish Academy-nominated actor-director Diêm Camille (“Alien: Earth,” “The Wheel of Time”), writer-director-actor-producer Marcia Kimpton, British actor-producer Victoria Emslie (“Downton Abbey,” “12 Monkeys”), Ukrainian director-producer Ksenia Bugrimova

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