64th annual Cannes Film Festival

From May 11 to May 22, 2011 64th annual Cannes Film Festival is being held in Cannes . American actor Robert De Niro will be the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry will head the jury for the short film competition. South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho has been announced as the head of the jury for the Caméra d'Or prize, which is awarded to the best first-time filmmaker.

The opening film is Midnight in Paris, written and directed by Woody Allen. Mélanie Laurent will be the hostess of the opening and closing ceremonies.

Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the festival. Gus Van Sant's Restless is scheduled to open the Un Certain Regard section. Jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof will be honoured at the festival. Goodbye by Rasoulof and Pahani's This Is Not a Film will be screened at the festival, and Panahi will be awarded the Carrosse d'Or.

Juries

International competition

Robert De Niro, American actor (President)

Jude Law, English actor

Uma Thurman, American actress

Martina Gusmán, Argentine actress and producer

Nansun Shi, Chinese producer

Linn Ullmann, Norwegian critic and writer

Olivier Assayas, French director

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chadian director

Johnnie To, Hong Kong director and producer

Un Certain Regard

Emir Kusturica, Serbian director (President)

Élodie Bouchez, French actress

Peter Bradshaw, British critic

Geoffrey Gilmore, American Creative Director of Tribeca Enterprises

Daniela Michel, Mexican director of the Morelia Festival

inéfondation and short films

Michel Gondry, French director (President)

Julie Gayet, French actress and producer

Jessica Hausner, Austrian director and producer

Corneliu Porumboiu, Romanian director

João Pedro Rodrigues, Portuguese director

Camera d'Or

Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director (President)

Danièle Heyman, French critic

Eva Vezer, Hungarian Head of Magyar Filmunio

Robert Alazraki, French cinematographer

Daniel Colland, French manager of Cinedia laboratory

Jacques Maillot, French director

Alex Masson, French critic