The jury for the 77th Cannes Film Festival has been selected. To be led this year by Barbie director Greta Gerwig (USA), the five-woman, four-man jury includes some of the leading figures in contemporary global cinema: Juan Antonio Bayona (Spain), Ebru Ceylan (Turkey), Pierfrancesco Favino (Italy), Lily Gladstone (USA), Eva Green (France), Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan), Nadine Labaki (Lebanon), and Omar Sy (France).
This year’s eleven-day festival opens on May 14, with the coveted Palme d’Or to be awarded at its close on May 25. Among the films competing for that prize include Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Yorgos Lanthimons’s Kinds of Kindness, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, and Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice. The latter film is a biopic about Donald Trump, starring Sebastian Stan as the young real-estate mogul.
The festival will open with Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act, which is not competing for this year’s Palme d’Or. Other films that will premiere out of competition include George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and Kevin Costner’s Horizons: An American Saga—Chapter 1.
As of 29 April, the newly created jury will be evaluating the following 22 films that will be in competition at the 77th Cannes Festival. (Names given are those of the director):
All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
Anora by Sean Baker
The Apprentice by Ali Abassi
Beating Hearts by Gilles Lellouche
Bird by Andrea Arnold
Caught by the Tides by Jia Zhang-Ke
Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard
The Girl With the Needle by Magnus von Horn
Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes
Kinds of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos
Limonov: The Ballad by Kirill Serebrennikov
Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré
Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola
The Most Precious of Cargoes by Michel Hazanavicius
Motel Destino by Karim Aïnouz
Oh, Canada by Paul Schrader
Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino
The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
The Shrouds by David Cronenberg
The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
Trois kilomètres jusqu’à la fin du monde by Emanuel Parvu
Wild Diamond by Agathe Riedinger
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