Around director Ruben Östlund, who promises a “democratic” approach to the presidency of the jury, eight men and women, actors, directors, most under 50, are responsible for deciding between the 21 films in competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival .
Denis Ménochet, 46, is a French actor who excels in expressing strength and vulnerability. Speaking impeccable English, he was revealed in 2009 in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, in an anthology opening scene. After the success of Custody (2018), a film on domestic violence rewarded at the Venice Film Festival and then at the Césars, he had an exceptional year 2022, crowned by a Goya in Spain for his role in the thriller As Bestas . He plays a Frenchman living in a deprived corner of Galicia, facing the hostility of his neighbors. The film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen was presented at Cannes in 2022.
Queen of a revival of genre cinema, the 39-year-old Frenchwoman was born artistically in Cannes in 2016 with her first film Grave, presented at Critics’ Week, before being consecrated five years later for Titane, a shock film on the body, violence and gender, which won the 2021 Palme d’or.
Julia Ducournau thus became the second woman in the history of the festival to receive such an award, after Jane Campion. Since this Dividing Palme, she has directed series episodes in the United States and is currently developing her own series with the A24 studio (behind the success of Everything Everywhere All At Once). She is also working on her next film.
In 2014, the Argentinian made Cannes audiences laugh with The New Savages, a scathing farce co-produced by Pedro Almodovar. The film, which will go all the way to the Oscars, starts on a plane where all the passengers realize that they have a connection with the purser, whom they have mistreated at some point in their lives, and who locks himself up in the cockpit to rush the plane to the ground. Relatively low-key ever since, the 47-year-old director made a comeback with Misanthrope (now in theaters), starring Shailene Woodley on the trail of a mass murderer. Inspired by both Seven and The Silence of the Lambs, this is his first film in English.
For the general public, she is Captain Marvel, the first superheroine of the Marvel universe, but Brie Larson is also an American actress of independent films including Room, against a background of sexual violence, which earned her an Oscar in 2016. She plays a mother sequestered with her 5-year-old son, who has never known the outside world. Very involved in the movement
He has just played Spielberg’s father on screen in The Fabelmans, but Paul Dano, 38, has been showing off his adolescent physique for twenty years in the cinema. Spotted in the comedy Little Miss Sunshine (2006), he explodes on the screen a year later in There Will Be Blood (2007) opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, imperial. We then see him in Twelve Years a Slave by Steve McQueen (2013) or Okja by Bong Joon-ho, in competition at Cannes in 2017. In 2018, he goes behind the camera with the very sensitive Wildlife , on the disintegration of a couple, which will be shown at Critics’ Week. In 2022, it is under the guise of the villain of Batman that the actor hits the mark.
Acclaimed last year at Cannes for her film Le Bleu du caftan, about homosexuality in Morocco, Maryam Touzani is a director, screenwriter and actress. Born in 1980 in Tangier, she started out as a film critic, after studying journalism in London, before directing short films. She then collaborated on Much Loved (2015) by her husband, Nabil Ayouch, a shocking film about prostitution in Morocco. In 2019, she directed her first feature film, Adam, about a pregnancy outside marriage. This exploration of the unspoken and taboos of his country earned him a selection at Cannes (Un Certain Regard) and a preselection for the Oscars. She is currently working on writing her first novel and her next feature film.
Dean of the Cannes jury at 61, Atiq Rahimi is a renowned Afghan writer who has won numerous prizes in France, his adopted country, including the Goncourt for Syngué sabour. Stone of patience. He will adapt it four years later to the screen with Golshifteh Farahani, an Iranian actress also exiled in France. The writer had already brought to the screen his first novel Terre et Cendres (2004), and on this occasion walked the Cannes red carpet. His books have been translated into twenty languages. His latest novel, Les Porteurs d’eau, was published in 2019, the year in which he directed his 3rd film, Notre-Dame du Nil, in Rwanda.
Her first feature film, I’m Not a Witch, created a sensation by telling the story of a little girl accused of witchcraft and sent to a camp. Screened in Cannes, the film then received the Bafta for first film in 2018. Born in Zambia, Rungano Nyoni, 41, grew up in Wales and now lives in Lisbon. She was noticed from her debut in 2009 thanks to her award-winning short films at numerous international festivals.
