Président du Jury d'un Certain Regard 2024
Acting since the age of four, Xavier Dolan directs and stars in his first feature film I killed my mother which achieved great success at the Directors' Fortnight in 2009. On 2013, Tom on the farm is screened at the Venice Film Festival, where he won the FIPRESCI Prize. With Mommy, he has won several prizes including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. 2014 as well as the César for best foreign film. Xavier Dolan was a member of the Feature Film Jury in 2015 before chairing the Un Certain Regard Jury today : a consecration.
President of the Jury 77 th Cannes Film Festival
Greta Gerwig has established her name in American and international cinema in just fifteen years. From her beginnings as an actress, she is also involved as a screenwriter and multiplies collaborations. She co-signs Hannah Takes the Stairs(2007) and Nights and Weekends (2008) that she co-directs, then Frances Ha (2012), Mistress America (2015) and of course Barbie with Noah Baumbach, his writing accomplice.
His very first solo work, Lady Bird (2017) – striking portrait, tender and melancholic from the torments of adolescence – receives 5 Oscar nominations, especially for the best achievement.
For his second film, Greta Gerwig ambitiously takes on the classic of American literature The Four Daughters of Doctor March, always with the desire to renew the outlook on women.
With his last film Barbie (2023), global cultural phenomenon, biggest hits of the year, Greta Gerwig becomes the first director in the history of cinema to exceed a billion dollars at the box office, thus at the top of his art, she will chair the 77 year of the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes Film Festival poster 2024
Cinema room mirror, this poster from a scene taken from “Rhapsody in August” signed by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, intends to celebrate the 7th Art, with wonder during the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. In this film presented Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991, a grandmother victim of the bombing of Nagasaki on 9 august 1945 passes on to his grandchildren and his American nephew his faith in love and integrity as a bulwark against war. With as much tenderness as meditation.
Cannes Film Festival poster 2021
… Spike Lee, citizen of the " People’s Republic of Brooklyn, New York », is on the poster of this 74th collector's edition ... necessarily ! Who else ?
President of the Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury
The French filmmaker and screenwriter Claire Denis succeeds Abderrahmane Sissako, Naomi Kawase, Cristian Mungiu et Bertrand Bonello. With his jury, she will award on Thursday 23 May the three Cinéfondation prizes among the 17 films by film school students presented. Saturday 25 May, she will present the Palme d'Or for short film at the Closing ceremony of the 72e Cannes Film Festival.
From Chocolat (1988), first semi-autobiographical work on the independence of Cameroon and the Africa of her childhood - which she will find for Good work (2000) and White Material (2010), she marks the spirits and knows the honors of the Cannes Competition, of Caesar and criticism.
The director likes to film desire in otherness, taboos and prohibitions, as in Trouble Every Day (Midnight Screening, 2001) or The bastards (In some perspective, 2013).
Daring, free, Claire Denis has never stopped shaping journeys between the unknown and the familiar, until High Life (2018) where the power of its staging and its sense of the ellipse reinvent science fiction.
President of the Un Certain Regard Jury 2019
On 2018, Nadine Labaki competes with the powerful and moving Capernaum. This poignant manifesto on damaged childhood, the refugees and the faults of a society that denies its humanity disrupts the Croisette. Nadine Labaki wins the Jury Prize, chaired by Cate Blanchett, and pronounces alongside his young actor, Zain Al Rafeea, Syrian refugee, a speech that will be remembered. Nominated for the Golden Globes and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Capernaum made the Lebanese director the first woman from the Arab world to be nominated in this category.
President of the 72nd Festival de Cannes Jury
A 56 years, it only took six feature films to Alejandro González Iñarritu to establish himself as one of the leading directors of world cinema. Watched by Hollywood from the first opus of its trilogy (Bitches Loves on 2000), the Mexican director reaches international fame with 21 grams on 2003, then Babel on 2006.
His cinema poses the themes that are dear to him : forfeiture, guilt and redemption, paternity, family and loneliness, fatality and contingency, with a formal inventiveness that will never stop renewing itself with Biutiful on 2010, Birdman on 2014 and The Revenant on 2015.
Awarded the most prestigious awards in the film industry for the daring and virtuosity of his staging, he is a filmmaker of exploration and experimentation, a demanding director at the top of his art who will chair the Jury of 72e Cannes film festival.
Palm of honor 2019
Magnetic at Visconti, mysterious in the thrillers of Melville and Verneuil, Alain Delon has always made strong choices : quickly abandoning the costume of the young first, he devotes himself to complex characters, ambivalent and tragic, brittle and rough, and shapes the role of silent policeman or cold-blooded animal.
Great source of inspiration for John Woo or Quentin Tarantino, the Samurai, where is the movie, makes his game a "genre" : charisma, regard, tension…
Cannes Film Festival poster 2019
At the top of this pyramid : Agnes Varda, the eye on the beach of Cannes, young and eternal, will be the inspiring flagship of the 72nd edition
