At 21 the American actress may be the baby of the jury, but the sometime model has a long career behind her. She has also has spent large parts of her life working in neighbouring Ivory Coast and in Burkina Faso after studying in France. This prize takes me back to my initial solitude, offset by how the adventure turned out. That's also the vocation of cinema. She first came to notice in Georgian Otar Iosseliani's Chasing Butterflies in 1992 and won the African Academy best actress award in 2015 for Eye of the Storm, where she played a lawyer defending a former child soldier on war crimes charges. ", LE JEUNE AHMED (Young Ahmed) directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE. Jeff Wright’s Split Personalities Won Late Night This Week, The Rage of Idles Is Just Another Empty Gesture, At Soho Rep, a Revolutionary Idea: Put the Creative People on Salary. With the Cannes Festival around the corner, these Indian beauties are all set to take the world by a storm, once again. Dolly Parton Insists Rumors of Her Tattoos Are Greatly Exaggerated, Y’all. We want to thank young Idir, who played Ahmed so well. “The Jury would like to express the great pleasure we had diving into the diversity of this selection. As of 2016 Arnold was awarded the prize for her films Red Road, Fish Tank, and American Honey, while Loach was awarded the prize for his films Hidden Agenda, Raining Stones, and The Angels' Share. In the show’s upcoming Season 32 premiere. The outdoors screenings at the beach cinema of Cannes are open to the public. © Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images. Four-time Oscar nominee Lanthimos’s second film Dogtooth won the Un Certain Regard Prize in Cannes 2009, and jury prize-winner The Lobster played in Competition in 2015. She has “ribbons and bows and butterflies.” But a full sleeve? An international jury composed of a president and various film, culture, and art personalities, who determine the prizes for the feature films in the competition. He made his dark masterpiece Ida after moving back from Britain to his native Poland. She made her Cannes debut at just eight in Inarritu's Babel, six years after making her screen debut as a toddler in the Oscar-nominated I Am Sam alongside Sean Penn and her older sister, Dakota Fanning. He is my mentor. Bollywood actresses — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Deepika Padukone and Kangana Ranaut — will be walking the red carpet and represent India at the global film festival. The writer of the Oscar-nominated The Class, which also won the Palme d'Or in 2008, created something of a sensation at the festival two years ago with 120 BPM (Beats per Minute), his sweeping portrayal of AIDS activism during the darkest years of the crisis in Paris. Get Ready to Clap for Yara Shahidi’s Tinker Bell in. The 36-year-old philosophy graduate made her Cannes debut in 2011 with Heavenly Body about a teenage girl going through a religious crisis. This prize must be dedicated to him. In 1954, after a lot of criticism about the whimsical nature of these awards, the Festival authorities decided to turn to a more traditional prize-giving arrangement. I'd like to thank two directors – Henri-Georges Clouzot and Claude Chabrol.