Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Robust have been introduced as members of its important Competitors jury for its 78th version working from Might 13 to Might 24.
They be part of beforehand introduced Jury President Juliet Binoche, who introduced again in Might for the function.
Collectively, they may award the Palme d’Or to one of many 21 movies in the principle Competitors, in addition to the Grand Prix, Jury Prize, Finest Director, Finest Actress and Finest Actor awards.
U.S. Actress and filmmaker Berry was the African-American girl to win the Academy Award for Finest Actress forher efficiency in Marc Forster’s Monster’s Ball (2002). Alternating between blockbusters and unbiased productions, her credit embody Jungle Fever (1991), Dorothy Dandridge (1999), X-Males (1999), Swordfish (2002), Die One other Day (2003), Gothika (2003), Frankie & Alice (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and John Wick Parabellum (2019).
In 2020, she directed her first movie, Bruised. Additionally a producer, she co-produces a few of the movies she stars in, most lately Alexandre Aja’s By no means Let Go (2024).
Indian director and screenwriter Kapadia received the Grand Prix in Cannes 2024 final 12 months for first movie All We Think about As Gentle. She labored on Mumbai-set ode to friendship throughout her keep at La Résidence de La Cinéfondation in 2019. The movie introduced India again to the Cannes Competitors after a 30 12 months absence.
Italian actress Rohrwacher is a Cannes common whose credit embody Luca Guadagnino’s I’m Love, Saverio Costanzo’s The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Marco Bellocchio’s Dormant Magnificence and Laura Bispuri’s Sworn Virgin.
She has introduced a number of movies in Competitors, particularly together with her sister, director Alice Rohrwacher together with The Wonders (Grand Prix 2014), Blissful as Lazzaro (Prix du scénario ex-aequo 2018) and La Chimera (2023); and in addition with Matteo Garrone’s Story of Tales (2014) and Nanni Moretti’s Tre Piani (2020).
Moroccan author Slimani is greatest identified in cinema circles for second novel Lullaby, which received the Prix Goncourt 2016, and was tailored for the cinema in 2019, starring Karin Viard and Leïla Bekhti.
Congolese Director, documentarist, producer Hamadi screened his documentary Downstream to Kinshasa within the Official Choice 2020. He’s at present engaged on the sequence Milimo, les âmes errantes de Kinshasa which he’s producing and directing for Canal +, and on his subsequent characteristic movie La Vie est un chemin de fer.
South Korea director and screenwriter Sangsoo is a Cannes common who has performed 4 movies in Competitors: Girl Is the Way forward for Man (2004), Story of Cinema (2005), In One other Nation (2012), The Day After (2017), and 4 movies within the Un Sure Regard part: The Energy of Kangkwon Province (1998), Virgin Stripped Naked by Her Bachelors (2000), Hahaha (2010), which received him the Un Sure Regard Prize and The Day He Arrives (2011)
Mexican Director, screenwriter and producer Reygadas the received Caméra d’Or Particular for his first movie Japon, entered the Competitors along with his second characteristic, Battle in Heaven, returning to competition in 2007 with Silent Gentle, profitable the Jury Prize (ex-aequo). He then received Finest Director with Publish Tenebras Lux.
U.S actor Jeremy Robust was in Cannes final 12 months within the function of Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, which went on to earn him Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.
