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| Top from left to right : Park Chan-wook © Lee Seung-hee / Demi Moore © Thomas Whiteside / Isaach De Bankolé © Larry Busacca / Laura Wandel © Thomas Laisné / Paul Laverty © Joss Barratt / Bottom: Stellan Skarsgård © NEON / Ruth Negga © Justin Coit / Diego Céspedes © Tom Chenette / Chloé Zhao © Christian Tierney Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival |
Among those joining him are Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, actors Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, Isaach De Bankolé and Stellan Skarsgård, as well as directors Laura Wandel, Chloé Zhao and Diego Céspedes.
Laverty's work is a familiar sight on the Croisette, having had 11 of the films he has written for Ken Loach play at the French festival, including two which won the coveted Palme d'Or - The Wind That Shakes The Barley and I, Daniel Blake. Additionally he won the best screenplay prize in 2002 for Sweet Sixteen.
Swedish star Skarsgård was at the festival last year with the Grand Prix-winning Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, while Moore is also back after starring in 2004 festival breakout The Substance. Ivorian-American De Bankolé has been a regular sight in Cannes, starring in several of Claire Denis' films, including Chocolat, and is also a frequent collaborator with Jim Jarmusch, attending the festival with Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai in 1999. Irish-Ethiopian Negga, meanwhile, featured in the 2016 competition title [filmid=29222]Loving[/film] and went on to be Oscar nominated.
Nomadland director Chloé Zhao, arrives fresh from Oscar nominations for Hamnet, which Chilean director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes won the Un Certain Regard Prize for his debut feature The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo, after his shorts The Summer of the Electric Lion (2018) and The Melting Creatures (2022) previously played at the festival.
Rounding out the jury is Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel whose relationship with the festival stretches back to her 2014 short Foreign Bodies. She went on to win the FIPRESCI award at the festival with Playground, while her next film Adam's Sake opened last year's Critics' Week.
The Jury will award the Palme d'Or to one of 22 films in competition alongside other accolades. The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 23 at the Closing Ceremony. The festival begins on May 12.
