Cannes 2019

Cannes 2019

Cannes 2019: Alejandro González Iñárritu will be the president of the jury of the next Cannes Film

Festival which will take place from May 14th to 25th.

He will have the difficult task of succeeding the Australian actress Cate Blanchett: the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant) will be the president of the jury of the next Cannes Film Festival. This 72nd edition will take place from May 14 to 25, 2019. The filmmaker is a regular on the Croisette since he had presented his first film, Amours asch, in 2000, On this occasion, he won the Grand Prix of the Week of criticism. He won the staging award in 2006 for Babel.

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In a press release issued by the Festival, Alejandro González Iñárritu says he is honored with this designation: "From the beginning of my career, the Cannes Film Festival has been important to me, and I am honored and delighted to be back again this year, and immensely proud to preside over the Jury, the cinema flows through the veins of the planet and this Festival is the heart of it. With the jury, we will have the privilege of being the first spectators of the new films of our fellow filmmakers from all over the world. is a true pleasure and a great responsibility, that we will assume with passion and dedication. " The composition of its jury will be known in the coming weeks. As for the selected films, it will be necessary to wait until mid-April to discover the list