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Actors Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga and Isaach De Bankolé on pinch Oscar-winning writer-director Chloé Zhao, Chilean writer-director Diego Céspedes, Belgian writer-director Laura Wandel and Ken Loach’s go-to screenwriter Paul Laverty person been selected for nan main title assemblage astatine nan upcoming 79th Cannes Film Festival.
The group, revealed Monday, subordinate writer-director Park Chan-Wook who was antecedently announced arsenic nan assemblage president. They will oversee nan 22-film In Competition lineup astatine this year’s fest, which runs May 12-23 connected nan French riviera.
This year’s Competition slate (which is ray connected U.S. fare this edition) includes pics by Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Cristian Mungiu, Na Hong-jin, László Nemes, Marie Kreutzer, Pawel Pawlikowski, Léa Mysius and Ira Sachs.
The show opens May 12 pinch nan Out of Competition pic The Electric Kiss by Pierre Salvadori.
Moore returns to Cannes aft her starring move successful 2024’s The Substance, 1 of nan biggest titles to travel retired of nan show that twelvemonth (Moore was a deed connected nan Croisette) that went connected to gain an Oscar Best Picture nomination. Skarsgård starred successful past year’s Cannes smash, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which besides scored Oscar noms for him and nan movie aft it won Cannes’ Grand Prix prize.
Zhao, coming disconnected nan Oscar-nominated Hamnet this year, won Best Picture and Directing Oscars for 2021’s Nomadland. Ruth Negga was Oscar-nominated for nan 2016 title title Loving, while Isaach De Bankolé is simply a Cannes regular pinch Claire Denis-directed pics for illustration Chocolat and Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog.
Wandel’s profession includes directing 3 films astatine Cannes: successful 2014 pinch Foreign Bodies; successful 2021 pinch her first characteristic movie Playground, which was shortlisted for nan Oscar; and past year’s Adam’s Sake, developed astatine nan festival’s La Résidence and which opened nan Critics’ Week sidebar. Céspedes past twelvemonth won nan Un Certain Regard Prize for his debut characteristic The Mysterious Gaze of nan Flamingo, aft his pics The Summer of nan Electric Lion (2018) and The Melting Creatures (2022) antecedently played astatine nan festival.
Laverty has written 14 films for Loach — 11 that played Cannes — including 2 that won nan festival’s apical prize the Palme d’Or: 2006’s The Wind That Shakes nan Barley and 2016’s I, Daniel Blake. He won nan screenplay prize successful 2002 for Loach’s Sweet Sixteen.
