Cannes Assembles Powerhouse Jury for 78th Edition, Including Jeremy Strong, Halle Berry and Payal Kapadia

The Cannes Film Festival has put together a powerful jury for its 78th edition, including Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong (“The Apprentice”) and Payal Kapadia, the Indian filmmaker of “All We Imagine as Light.”

Mixing actors, filmmakers and authors, the jury will also comprise of South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, as well as Congolese director, documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, as well as Mexican filmmaker and producer Carlos Reygadas. As previously announced, Juliette Binoche will preside over the jury, succeeding Greta Gerwig who handed out the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s “Anora.”

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Both Strong and Kapadia were at Cannes last year, in competition. Strong presented Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice” in which he starred as Roy Cohn, while Kapadia was there with her fiction debut, “All We Imagine as Light” which won the Grand Prize.

Berry became the first African-American woman to win best actress at the Oscars for her performance in Marc Forster’s “Monster’s Ball.” She directed her first film, “Bruised,” in 2020, and she has co-produced some of the films she stars in, most recently Alexandre Aja’s “Never Let Go.”

Rohrwacher is a Cannes regular. She’s presented several films in competition, notably “The Wonders” and “Happy as Lazzaro” and “La Chimera” directed by her sister Alice Rohrwacher, along with Matteo Garrone’s “Tale of Tales” and Nanni Moretti’s “Tre Piani.” Sangsoo is another Cannes fixture. He presented four films in Competition (“Woman Is the Future of Man,” “Tale of Cinema,” “In Another Country,” “The Day After”) and four films in the Un Certain Regard section (“The Power of Kangkwon Province,” “Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,” “Hahaha” and “The Day He Arrives”).

Hamadi presented his film “Downstream to Kinshasa” at Cannes in 2020. Reygadas, meanwhile, has been at the festival many times, starting in 2005 with his second film “Battle in Heaven” and he won best director with “Post Tenebras Lux” in 2012. He’s also co-produced films by Amat Escalante, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Christine Haroutounian and Hilal Baydarov. Reygadas is currently working on his next film, “Wake of Umbra.”

Slimani is renown book author who has been tied to the film word through her books. Her second novel, “Lullaby,” won the Prix Goncourt 2016 and was adapted for the bigscreen in 2019, in a thriller starring Karin Viard and Leïla Bekhti.

Hollywood will have a bullish presence at this upcoming edition. The lineup includes Lynne Ramsay‘s “Die, My Love,” a thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; as well as Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water” in Un Certain Regard; along with “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning;” Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” with star Denzel Washington; Kelly Reichardt’s heist movie “The Mastermind” with Josh O’Connor; Oliver Hermanus’ romance “The History of Sound” starring O’Connor and Paul Mescal; Ari Aster’s “Eddington” starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler; and Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme,” which stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Benedict Cumberbatch and Scarlett Johansson. The latter will also be at Cannes with her directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great,” in Un Certain Regard section.

The winners of this year’s competition will be announced on May 24 at the closing ceremony. The Cannes Film Festival will take place May 13-24.