Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong to Join the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Jury

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

It was announced earlier this year that French actress Juliette Binoche is chairing this year’s jury for the Cannes Film Festival, the 78th edition. And it was announced today that Halle Berry will be part of the jury, along with Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and 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.

Find out more about the jury below:

JULIETTE BINOCHE - President
Actress- France

Juliette 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. Winner of the most prestigious awards (Oscar, Bafta, César, best actress awards from the Berlin and Venice film festivals…), Juliette Binoche does not seek virtuosity, preferring to trust only in emotion and the elusive truth of the moment. This is undoubtedly why she is so versatile and unpredictable in her art —her arts actually—, as she strays from movies to TV-series (The Staircase, The New Look), theater (Ivo van Hove), dance (co-creation with Akram Khan), music (Alexandre Tharaud) and painting.

HALLE BERRY
Actress & filmmaker- United States

First African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Marc Forster's Monster's Ball (2002), Halle Berry alternates between blockbusters and independent productions. Noted for her performance as Dorothy Dandridge (1999) which earned her a Golden Globe, she became the same year Storm in Bryan Singer's X-Men. Her many roles include Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991), Swordfish (2002), Die Another Day (2003), Gothika by Mathieu Kassovitz (2003), Frankie & Alice by Geoffrey Sax (2011), Cloud Atlas by the Wachowski sisters (2012), Kingsman: The Golden Circle by Matthew Vaughn (2017), John Wick Parabellum by Chad Stahelski (2019). In 2020, she directed her first film, Bruised. Also a producer, she co-produces some of the films she stars in, most recently Alexandre Aja's Never Let Go (2024).

PAYAL KAPADIA
Director & screenwriter- India

Winning the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes 2024 with All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia makes a triumphant entry with her first feature film. This ode to friendship and Mumbai, on which she worked during her stay at La Résidence de La Cinéfondation in 2019, helped bring India back into the Festival de Cannes Competition after a thirty-year absence. The film has continued its run to the Golden Globes 2025 (nominations for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film) and won numerous awards, including Best Film Prize at the Asian Film Awards 2025 in Hong Kong. Trained at the Film and Television Institute of India, she directed several short films, including Afternoon Clouds, presented at La Cinéfondation 2017, she made a name for herself with her non-fiction film A Night of Knowing Nothing. She shares her unique vision on cinemas the world over.

ALBA ROHRWACHER
Actress- Italy

One of Italy's most sought-after actresses worldwide, Alba Rohrwacher made her mark with Luca Guadagnino's I am Love, Saverio Costanzo's The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Marco Bellocchio's Dormant Beauty and Laura Bispuri's Sworn Virgin. A regular at the Festival de Cannes, she has presented several films in Competition, especially with her sister, director Alice Rohrwacher: The Wonders (Grand Prix 2014), Happy as Lazzaro (Prix du scénario ex-aequo 2018) and La Chimera (2023); and also with Matteo Garrone's Tale of Tales (2014) and Nanni Moretti's Tre Piani (2020). She has worked with Arnaud Desplechin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stéphane Brizé, Pablo Larraín, Noah Baumbach and Isabel Coixet. She has received numerous awards, including a Coppa Volpi at Venice Film Festival, a Marc’Aurelio d'Oro at Rome Film Fest, two David di Donatello, two Nastro D'Argento and two Globo D'Oro.

LEÏLA SLIMANI
Writer- Morocco, France

French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani published her first novel in 2014 with Éditions Gallimard, Adele: A Novel, which won critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2014 Prix de Flore. Her second novel, also published by Gallimard, Lullaby, won the Prix Goncourt 2016 and the Grand Prix des lectrices Elle 2017. It was adapted for the cinema in 2019, starring Karin Viard and Leïla Bekhti. She then published three other novels with Éditions Gallimard: The country of others (Grand Prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro 2020), Watch Us Dance and J'emporterai le feu. Leïla Slimani is also the author of stories, essays and comic strips. She campaigns for sexual rights, and in 2020 was awarded the Prix Simone de Beauvoir for her fight for women's rights. In 2024, she co-wrote the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games with Thomas Jolly.

DIEUDO HAMADI
Director, documentarist, producer - Democratic Republic of Congo

Entering the history of the Festival de Cannes with his film Downstream to Kinshasa (2020) in the Official Selection 2020, Dieudo Hamadi questions the institutions of his country, the DRC. After two acclaimed short films, Ladies in Waiting (2009) and Tolérance zéro (2010), he directed a documentary, Atalaku (2013), winner of the Joris Ivens Award for Best First Film at the Festival Cinéma du Réel; then National Diploma (2014), Grand Prix FIDADOC at the Festival of Agadir. In 2015, he founded his production company, Kiripifilms. In 2017, he directed Mama Colonel, Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel, and in 2019 received a grant from the McMillan-Stewart Foundation of Harvard's Film Study Center. He is currently working on a series Milimo, les âmes errantes de Kinshasa which he is producing and directing for Canal +, and on his next feature film La Vie est un chemin de fer.

HONG SANGSOO
Director & screenwriter- South Korea

Prolific filmmaker who has won numerous international awards, Hong Sangsoo has been a staple of the Festival de Cannes for many years, so much so that he used it as the setting for his film Claire’s Camera (Special Screenings 2017). With four films in Competition (Woman Is the Future of Man in 2004, Tale of Cinema in 2005, In Another Country in 2012, The Day After in 2017) and four films in the Un Certain Regard section (The Power of Kangkwon Province in 1998, Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors in 2000, Hahaha in 2010 which won him the Un Certain Regard Prize, The Day He Arrives in 2011), Hong Sangsoo is evolving while remaining faithful to his cinema, which is pure and intimate. After presenting In Front of your Face (Cannes Premiere 2021) and making seven films, he is currently working on his upcoming film titled at the middle of life.

CARLOS REYGADAS
Director, screenwriter & producer- Mexico

With his first film Japón (2002), Carlos Reygadas won Caméra d'Or Special Distinction for his unique and demanding cinematography. He entered the Competition at the Festival de Cannes 2005 with his second feature, Battle in heaven. He returned to the Festival de Cannes 2007 with Silent Light, winning the Jury Prize (ex-aequo). With Post Tenebras Lux, awarded for Best Director at the Festival de Cannes 2012, he confirms his mastery of his art. In 2018, he directed Our Time. He is also a co-producer, notably of some films by Amat Escalante, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Christine Haroutounian, Hilal Baydarov. In 2023, he published Presencia, a book on cinema and the source of creation. Carlos Reygadas is currently working on his next film, Wake of Umbra.

JEREMY STRONG
Actor- United States

Jeremy Strong is an Oscar and BAFTA nominated and Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winning actor. His masterful performance as Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, selected in Competition at the Festival de Cannes 2024, earned him Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. That same year, he returned to Broadway in An Enemy Of The People, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. His previous film credits include Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7, Adam McKay’s The Big Short, James Gray’s Armageddon Time, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, and Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. For his iconic portrayal of Kendall Roy in HBO’s hit series Succession, Jeremy Strong won the Emmy, Golden Globe, and Critics Choice Award. Upcoming, he stars in Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere to be released later in 2025.