78th Festival de Cannes 2025

The Jury of the78th Festival de Cannes

From left to right : Jeremy Strong © Paola Kudacki / Alba Rohrwacher © Stephanie Gengotti / Dieudo Hamadi © Gertrude / Leila Slimani © Francesca Mantovani - Gallimard / Juliette Binoche © Brigitte Lacombe / Halle Berry © Randy Holmes ABC / Carlos Reygadas © DR / Payal Kapadia © Ranabir Das / Hong Sangsoo © DR

 

The Jury for the 78th Festival de Cannes, chaired by Juliette Binoche, will include American actress and filmmaker Halle Berry, Indian director and screenwriter Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, as well as Congolese director, documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer Carlos Reygadas and American actor Jeremy Strong.

The Jury will have the honor of awarding the Palme d'or to one of the 21 films in Competition, after Sean Baker's Anora, presented by Greta Gerwig's Jury, in 2024. The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 24 at the Closing Ceremony, broadcast live by France Télévisions in France and by Brut. internationally.

 


Robert De Niro,Honorary Palme d'or of the 78th Festival de Cannes

On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, American actor, director and producer Robert De Niro will receive an honorary Palme d'or for lifetime achievement at the opening ceremony of the 78th Festival de Cannes, 14 years after he Presided over the Jury in 2011.


Juliette Binoche to preside over the Jury of the 78th Festival de Cannes

Juliette Binoche © Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe

The burst of an all-pervading laughter, an ideal of commitment to her art and her times —Juliette Binoche has won over audiences and critics alike, bringing together today’s greatest filmmakers in her world-class filmography. Exactly 40 years after her first appearance on La Croisette, she will preside over the Jury of the 78th Festival de Cannes, which will award the Palme d’or on Saturday, May 24.

Juliette Binoche will succeed American director Greta Gerwig. Thus, for the second time in the Festival’s history, one woman in film will take up this prestigious torch from another.

 

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