Greta Gerwig, from Barbie, will be president of the jury at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

After collecting records with Barbie throughout 2023, Greta Gerwig was announced, this Thursday (14), as the president of the jury for the 77th edition of the Cannes Festival, which takes place between May 14 and 25, 2024. The information is from deadline.

“I am surprised, thrilled and honored to serve as President of the Cannes Film Festival Jury. I can’t wait to see what journeys are in store for us all”declared the filmmaker, who is the second director to preside over the festival’s jury, after Jane Campion (Attack of the Dogs), in 2014, and the first American.

“I love movies – I love making them, I love going to see them, I love talking about them. As a cinephile, Cannes has always been the pinnacle of what can be the universal language of cinema. Being in a place of vulnerability, in a dark cinema full of strangers, watching a new movie is my favorite place to be”still said Gerwig.

Iris Knobloch It is Thierry Frémauxresponsible for the Cannes Film Festival, also spoke about the choice of the filmmaker to preside over the jury: “That’s an obvious choice: Greta Gerwig is the incarnation of the renewal of world cinema, a movement of which Cannes wants to continue being the pioneer”they said.

“In addition to the seventh art, it also represents an era that is breaking barriers and mixing genres, thus elevating the values ​​of intelligence and humanism”concluded Knobloch It is Fremaux.