Filmmaker becomes part of Cannes jury for upcoming edition of film festival 

After a stellar track record at the Cannes Film Festival, the Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia has now become a part of the jury at the festival. The Cannes Film Festival has put together a powerful jury for its 78th edition, including Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong and Payal Kapadia, reports Variety. 

Mixing actors, filmmakers and authors, the jury will also comprise of South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani, as well as Congolese director, documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, as well as Mexican filmmaker and producer Carlos Reygadas. 

As previously announced, Juliette Binoche will preside over the jury, succeeding Greta Gerwig who handed out the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’. As per Variety, both Strong and Kapadia were at Cannes last year, in competition. Strong presented Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice in which he starred as Roy Cohn, while Kapadia was there with her fiction debut, All We Imagine as Light which won the Grand Prize.