Cannes Film Festival: Omar Sy, Eva Green and Lily Gladstone in the 2024 jury!

Greta Gerwig – director and screenwriter (USA)

The Cannes Film Festival rolled out the pink carpet for the American director Greta Gerwigwhich succeeded in the maddening challenge of bringing Barbie to the big screen last year with a global success to boot (the biggest hit in 2023 with $1.4 billion).

Currently developing a new adaptation of Narnia for Netflix, the filmmaker, who comes from an independent film background, co-wrote Frances Ha with Noah Baumbach and signed on for Lady Bird (2017, five Oscar nominations) and March of the Doctor’s Four Daughters (2019). , six Oscar nominations).

In this role as President of the Cannes Jury, Greta Gerwig His name was recorded in the history of the festival, as he becomes the second director (after Jane Campion in 2014), the second American (after Olivia de Havilland in 1965), the second youngest person (after Sophia Loren in 1966) and especially the first American filmmaker to hold this position occupied.

Juan Antonio Bayona – director and screenwriter (Spain)

With the moving and epic Le Cercle des Neiges, released online earlier this year on Netflix, Juan Antonio Bayona delivered one of the cinematic “slugs” of 2024.

This film, which has twelve Goyas and two Oscar nominations, is in line with the Spanish filmmaker’s previous works, combining humanism and visual mastery. This is evidenced by his first feature film “The Orphanage”, which was discovered at Cannes in 2007, “The Impossible” (2012) and Minutes After Midnight (2016).

On the series side, he directed the first two episodes of Rings of Power for Prime Video and the first two episodes of Penny Dreadful, where he directed… Eva Greenwhich will be discovered by the Cannes jury.

Ebru Ceylan – screenwriter and photographer (Turkey)

The name “Ceylan” has become inseparable from the Cannes Film Festival since Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan was invited to compete on the Croisette with the Palme d’Or ten years ago, in 2014, for Winter Sleep.

A feature film written with his long-time partner and collaborator, Ebru Ceylan, who has worked as an actor, art director and above all as a screenwriter in many of the director’s films.

Also a photographer and editor of various publications, Ebru Ceylan participated in Trois Sings (2008 Prize for Direction), Once in Anatolia (Grand Prize 2011), Wild Pear Tree (2018) and Dry Herbs (2023).

Pierfrancesco Favino – actor (Italy)

Discovered in the 2000s with nothing more than Kiss and romantic crime, Pierfrancesco Favino has since established himself as the face – if not the face – of Italian cinema. Another kiss, Subura, Italian family, Our most beautiful years, last night in Milan and especially the traitor highlights the rich career of the actor, who at the same time leads an interesting career in Hollywood (Night at the Museum, The Miracle in Santa Anna, Angels and Demons, World War Z or Rush ).

As a member of the jury, he will be able to share his experience of The Chronicles of Narnia: Chapter 2 – Prince Caspian with president Greta Gerwig, as the director prepares a new version of the franchise.

Lily Gladstone – actress (USA)

In 2023, he was the heart and soul of Killers of the Flower Moon alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Lily Gladstonewho was on the verge of a career change when she was approached by Martin Scorsese, is one of the new faces of Hollywood cinema.

After a historic Oscar nomination for the film (the first American to be nominated for the Best Actress statuette), this native of the Blackfoot and Nez Perce tribes is now celebrating Cannes history and is sure to give an interesting look to the films in competition.

Eva Green – actress (France)

Milady joined the jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Eva GreenRecently cast as the “villain” in the diptych The Three Musketeers, he has had an international career since his debut in 2003 in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Innocents – The Dreamers.

Thus, the actor ranges from French cinema (Arsene Lupin, Proxima), Hollywood blockbusters (Casino Royale, Crossroads of the Worlds, Kingdom of Heaven, 300 Rise of an Empire, Sin City 2), series (Penny Horror, Union). .. and Tim Burton, who is one of his muses after Dark Shadows.

Koreda Hirokazu – director (Japan)

He will take the stage at the Théâtre Lumiere on May 27, 2023 with Justin Triet (Anatomy of the Fall) to accept the screenplay prize for Innocence.

Japanese director Koreda Hirokazu has been a regular at Cannes since the early 2000s, with many selections in competition (Nobody Knows, Like Father, Like Son, Our Little Sister and Les Bonnes Étoiles) and most notably the Palme d’Or in 2018 for A Family Affair, Its biggest success was in France, with almost 800,000 takers.

Nadine Labaki – director and screenwriter (Lebanon)

Twenty years ago, in 2004, Nadine Labac joined the Cinéfondation of the Cannes Festival to develop her first feature film, Caramel. After twenty years, a Lebanese filmmaker joins the jury of this 77th edition.

In the meantime, he’s been writing, directing, and performing, and Now Where Do We Go? (2011) and especially Capernaum, Jury Prize 2018, which tells the story of a trial led by a little boy who accused his parents of taking his life.

The director is currently working on the remake of Invisibles (2019), which features a group of social workers working to reintegrate homeless women. The story of the new sauces, which should echo the caramel.

Omar Sy – actor and producer (France)

In 2020, in the AlloCiné microphone, Omar C shared this amusing anecdote: “The year I finished my BA, I was in Cannes and lo and behold… I didn’t get my school bag, but it was worth it.“To experience the Cannes adventure for CANAL+, the French actress took a real risk, which paid off as we find her today on the jury of the 77th edition!

A real blessing for the man who makes his way between France and the United States after the untouchables. While the series Lupine helped establish his face and talent worldwide, he can be found in the Netflix series Yasuke, which centers on the story of an African who is brought to feudal Japan as a slave and becomes the first non-Japanese samurai in the country. .

In the meantimeIn Trappe, he opened a cinema named after him.