Cannes Film Festival jury announced

Ebru Ceylan, a photographer and screenwriter who is the wife of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, has become one of the jurors for the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which will take place this year.

In the event where Barbie director Greta Gerwig will serve as jury president this year, actors Lily Gladstone and Eva Green, as well as directors Nadine Labaki, Juan Antonio Bayona, and Kore-eda Hirokazu, are also included.

At the event, which will begin on Tuesday, May 14, the jury will evaluate 22 films in the Cannes Main Competition, including Francis Ford Coppola's “Megalopolis,” David Cronenberg's “The Shrouds,” Yorgos Lanthimos's “Kinds of Kindness,” Jacques Audiard's “Emilia Perez,” Michel Hazanavicius's “The Most Precious of Cargoes,” Paolo Sorrentino's “Parthenope,” Sean Baker's “Anora,” and Ali Abbasi's “The Apprentice.”

The jury will announce the winners in more than half a dozen categories, including the Palme d'Or for best film, at the closing ceremony on May 25.