The 78th Cannes Film Festival is set to hold from May 13 to 24, 2025. French actress Juliette Binonche will serve as jury president for the main competition. The Jury for the 78th Festival de Cannes comprises 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.

Winner of the most prestigious awards (Oscar, Bafta, César, best actress awards from the Berlin and Venice film festivals…), the Jury Chair Binoche has worked in some 70 films and 40 years of artistic curiosity since her first major role in André Téchiné’s Rendez-vous, presented on La Croisette in 1985. Four decades later, she has become an international star and has inspired unexpected collaborations and screenplays that are dear to her heart. She was awarded the Best Actress award in Cannes in 2010: for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy. After her fifth film in the Official Selection, four more followed, until Trần Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things in 2023.