Halle Berry, Leïla Slimani and Hong Sangsoo among the members of the jury

American actress Halle Berry, Franco-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani and the South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo are part of the jury for the next Cannes festival, chaired by the French actress, Juliette Binoche, announced the organizers on Monday, April 28.

Composed of nine members – Five women and four men -, this jury, in which it is also the Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher and the American actor Jeremy Strong, must in particular award the Palme d’Or of the 78^e edition, which is held from May 13 to 24.

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, Grand Prix last year, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas, and the documentary maker of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Dieudo Hamadi complete this very international panel which will have to decide between the 21 films selected in competition.

Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Mothers), Iranian Jafar Panahi (A simple accident), the American Wes Anderson (The Phoenician Scheme) or the French Hafsia Herzi (The little last) will compete for the favors of the jury, which will notably designate the successor ofAorfrom the American Sean Baker, Palme d’Or 2024, at the top of the Cannes charts.

Hong Sangsoo, prolific director

To carry out her task, the multipressed actress Juliette Binoche (Oscar, César, interpretation prize in Cannes …) will notably be accompanied by Halle Berry, the first African-American to win the Oscar for the best actress for her performance in “In the shade of hatred” In 2002. The actress, known especially for her roles in blockbusters (« Catwoman », « X-Men »), went to the production in 2020 with his first film “Bruised”.

At their side, the prolific director Hong Sangsoo knows the Cannes festival well for having seen four of the feature films selected in competition, of which “Woman is the future of man” (2004) or “The day after” (2017).

Successful novelist and co-author of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in 2024, Leïla Slimani is the only member of the jury without direct link with the 7th Art, even if her novel “Sweet song”winner of the prestigious Goncourt Prize in France in 2016, was adapted to the cinema.

Last year, the festival jury was chaired by the American filmmaker Greta Gerwig (Barbie), and notably counted among its members the French actor Omar Sy and the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-Eda.

Nicole Kidman will receive the Women in Motion Prize

In addition to the palm and the prices awarded in the other official sections (a certain look, the gold camera), the Cannes festival will again pay tribute to big names of the 7th^e Art this year. Nicole Kidman will be awarded the 10th^e Women in Motion Prize, which distinguishes personalities who “Change the place of women in cinema and in society”during the 78^e Cannes Film Festival in May, the organizers said on Monday.

“This is the first time that Nicole Kidman returns to the Cannes Film Festival since the birthday price that had been given to her during the 70^e edition, in 2017 “underlined the luxury group Kering, at the origin of this award, and the festival. “Role after role, and with nuances, forces and cracks specific to each character, [Kidman] has embodied women who free themselves from the shackles “praised the general delegate of the festival, Thierry Frémaux, in a press release.

The organizers have chosen for this tenth edition one of the best known faces in Hollywood: the 57 -year -old actress has not left the screens since the 1990s, chaining striking roles in Eyes Wide Shut (1999) or Red millwhich had opened the festival in 2001.

Oscar winner for her interpretation of Virginia Woolf in The Hoursit was still awarded last September, at the Venice Mostra, for its role in Babygirla new generation erotic thriller where she overturned her glamorous image.

In early April, the festival had already said that the legend of American cinema Robert de Niro (Taxi Driver, The freed, The godfather 2…) would receive a palm of gold of honor during the opening ceremony.