25/04/2005 - Important names from different horizons to chose the winners of the different sections of the festival's 58th edition

Four Europeans will take their places alongside Serb Emir Kusturica, the president of the Official Competition at the 58th Cannes Film Festival. Spanish actor Javier Bardem will be taking part with French filmmakers Agnès Varda and Benoît Jacquot; completing the contingent from the Old Continent is German director Fatih Akin, whose latest film Crossing the bridge is being screened out of competition. The four remaining jury members announced on Friday night were the American Toni Morrison, honoured with a Nobel Prize for literature, the Chinese director John Woo and actresses Salma Hayek (Mexico) and Nandita Das (India).

Elsewhere, the jury has been revealed for the section Un Certain Regard. Presided over by the American filmmaker Alexander Payne, it consists of French director and screenwriter Gilles Marchand, director of the Rotterdam Film festival Sandra Den Hamer, journalists Katia Chapoutier (Canada) and Geneviève Welcomme (France), Argentinean writer and critic Eduardo Antin and actress Betsy Blair (USA).
For its part the Caméra d'Or, which honours the best first feature film from all sections of the Festival, will be awarded by a panel chaired by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, assisted by American critic Scott Foundas, Italian Roberto Turigliatto (Turin Film Festival), French filmmaker Malik Chibane, plus five others from France : writer Patrick Chamoiseau, technical advisor Luc Pourrinet, critic Yves Allion, film buff Laura Meyer and director of photography Romain Winding.
Finally, the jury for the Cinéfondation and short films, presided over by Taiwan director Edward Yang, includes Belgian colleague Chantal Akerman, Egyptian filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah, British writer-critic Colin MacCabe and French actress Sylvie Testud.

(Translated from French)