Juan Antonio Bayona will close his triumphant year at the helm of The Snow Society as part of the jury of the official section of the Cannes Film Festival, as announced by the organization in a statement. The Barcelona director will be accompanied by the Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, the actresses Lily Gladstone and Eva Green, the filmmaker Nadine Labaki, the actors Pierfrancisco Favino and Omar Sy, and the Japanese director and winner of the Palme d’Or, Hirokazu Kore-eda, in a jury chaired by the American actress, screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig, creator of the blockbuster Barbie.
The 77th edition of the prestigious French competition will be held from May 14 to 25 and will include among the 22 titles in competition new films by Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Jacques Audiard, Yorgos Lanthimos and Paolo Sorrentino.
The one from Bayonne is one of the few Spanish presences in the festival, without a Spanish film in the official section, after Jonás Trueba’s film was announced in the Filmmakers’ Fortnight with Volveráis and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s film was announced as president of the Week’s jury of Criticism.
The director of films such as The Impossible and A Monster Comes to See Me has received praise from critics and the public with his blockbuster The Snow Society, the emotional story that pays tribute to the survivors and victims of the plane crash in the Andes 1972. Among other recognitions, the film has won 12 Goya awards, six Platinum awards in Ibero-American audiovisual and has been nominated for the Oscar for best international film, the Golden Globe and the Bafta.
