Cannes Film Festival Announces Exciting Jury
Cannes Film Festival unveiled its full jury for this year’s event. The panel includes many exciting names, including Barbie director Greta Gerwig and Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone.
On April 29, Cannes Film Festival revealed its panel of judges for this year’s competition. As previously announced, Ladybird creator Greta Gerwig serves as its President. The director and writer will award the prestigious Palme d’Or to one of the twenty-two films entering the festival at its closing ceremony on May 25.
The 77th Festival de Cannes Jury unveiled…
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Joined by Ebru Ceylan, Lily Gladstone, Eva Green, Nadine Labaki, Juan Antonio Bayona, Pierfrancisco Favino, Kore-eda Hirokazu and Omar Sy, President Greta Gerwig will award the Palme d'or to one of the 22 films in #Competition,… pic.twitter.com/sDi5a2k5uP
Alongside the Little Women writer, joins fellow Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone. The Under The Bridge star will help determine the winner, as well as French actors Eva Green and Omar Sy. The Traitor’s Pierfrancesco Favino also joins the jury.
In addition to the outstanding actors on the panel, Oscar-nominated directors Nadine Labaki, Juan Antonio Bayona, and Hirokazu Kore-eda will take part in the decision-making. Furthermore, Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, whose previous film Winter Sleep won the Palme d’Or in 2014, completes the talented international jury.
Quentin Dupieux’s Le Deuxième Acte opens the festival on May 14, which premieres out of competition. The films competing in the event are as follows:
- The Apprentice by Ali Abbasi
- Motel Destino by Karim Aïnouz
- Bird by Andrea Arnold
- Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard
- Anora by Sean Baker
- Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola
- The Shrouds by David Cronenberg
- The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
- Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes
- La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises by Michel Hazanavicius
- Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré
- Feng Liu Yi Dai by Jia Zhang-Ke
- All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
- Kinds of Kindness by Yórgos Lánthimos
- L’amour Ouf by Gilles Lellouche
- Trei Kilometri Pana la Capatul Lumii by Emanuel Parvu
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
- Diamant Brut by Agathe Reidinger
- Oh Canada by Paul Schrader
- Limonov – The Ballad by Kirill Serebrennikov
- Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino
- Pigen Med Nålen by Magnus Von Horn
Moreover, the festival previously announced that, in addition to the winner of the competition, Studio Ghibli will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at this year’s 77 annual event.
Cannes Film Festival starts May 14. For more information about the event, readers can visit the festival’s website.
