Asghar Farhadi chosen as jury of Cannes Film Festival

The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival has announced the members of its competition jury with Oscar winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi as one of the juries to pick the winners of this year’s Palme d’Or honors.

Director, producer, screenwriter Farhadi will be accompanied by eight fellow jurors, including actors Rebecca Hall, Noomi Rapace and Deepika Padukone and directors Jeff Nichols and Joachim Trier.

Veteran French actor Vincent Lindon will head the main jury.

Together, the jury will announce this year’s winners at a gala ceremony in Cannes on May 28.

The festival will see a tribute to actor Tom Cruise, whose film ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is due to premiere at the festival. The official poster for the festival was designed in honor of ‘The Truman Show’.

Farhadi received two Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film for his ‘A Separation’ in 2011 and ‘The Salesman’ in 2016.

Farhadi’s film ‘A Hero’ won the second place grand prix at the Cannes film festival last year.

‘Leyla’s Brothers’, directed by Saeed Rustaie, will be Iran’s representative among 18th fields in the main competition of this year’s Cannes Festival.

The Iranian-Swedish director Ali Abbasi, too, will with his Persian language film ‘The Sacred Spider’, coproduced by France, Germany, Sweden and Denmark, will be in this year’s main competition.

Also, Ali Behdad’s ‘Imagination’, whose leading role is acted by Leila Hatami is among the seven full length feature films in Cannes Festival Film Critics Week films.

The Cannes Film Festival is an upcoming film festival scheduled to take place from May 17 to May 28, 2022.

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