25/04/2016 - The Cannes jury includes Kirsten Dunst, Valeria Golino, Vanessa Paradis, Katayoon Shanabi, László Nemes, Arnaud Desplechin, Mads Mikkelsen and Donald Sutherland

Chaired by Australian filmmaker George Miller (read the news), the complete line-up of the competition jury for the 69th Cannes Film Festival (11-22 May 2016) has been revealed, and it will comprise a total of nine members.

In it we find three actresses, with the USA’s Kirsten Dunst (Best Actress Award at Cannes in 2011 for Melancholia [+see also:
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Also due to be summoned to judge the 21 films in the running for the 2016 Palme d’Or (read the article and the news) are Hungarian director László Nemes (winner of the Grand Prix on the Croisette last year and the 2016 Oscar for Best Foreign-language Film with Son of Saul [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Vinterberg
film profile]) and legendary Canadian actor Donald Sutherland.

(Translated from French)