Cinema: The Cannes Film Festival includes Omar Sy on its jury

The festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25, has chosen four men and four women who will officiate under the presidency of director Greta Gerwig, a figure in American auteur cinema who became a box office queen with “Barbie” last year. last. At 40, she is the youngest president since Sophia Loren in 1966.

Cannes has chosen one of the stars of French cinema which aims to be more representative of the diversity of society: its jury includes the French actor Omar Sy, 46, who is taking a new step in an exceptional career since his first steps in schoolboy humor (“Omar and Fred”) until his early career in Hollywood, as an actor and producer. Through his popular successes in France (“Intouchables”).

At his side will be the French actress Eva Green, 43, known as much for her roles in France (most recently that of Milady in “The Three Musketeers”) as in Hollywood, with Tim Burton in particular, or alongside Daniel Craig in the James Bond films.

A year after walking the red carpet for “Killers of the Flower Moon” by Martin Scorsese, a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar, actress Lily Gladstone, from a Native American background, also joins the jury, including At 37 she is the youngest.

Added to this list are the Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino (“The Traitor”), 54 years old, the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 61 years old, Palme d’Or in 2018 for “A Family Affair”, the Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona (“The Circle of Snows”, released in France on Netflix), 48 years old, the Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, 50 years old, and the Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, 48 years old.

With its full jury, its 22 films in competition to succeed “Anatomy of a Fall” by Justine Triet, Palme d’Or in 2023, and more than a hundred films announced, including in the parallel selections, the great world cinema festival is now ready to open.

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