Cannes 2024: Film Festival kicks off with Greta Gerwig’s jury members' dinner meet

The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday (May 14). Ahead of the festivities, the jury members of the year met up for a dinner. The panel includes Greta Gerwig, who is also the leader, accompanied by Lily Gladstone, Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter J.A. Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda and French actor and producer Omar Sy.

Cannes 2024 opening ceremony

The 10-day-long film festival was opened with the screening of 'The Second Act,' a French comedy starring Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel and Raphaël Quenard. During the opening ceremony, Hollywood veteran Streep was given an honorary Palme d'Or for her five-decade-long contribution to cinema through which she delivered countless masterpieces.

What's coming up?

In the coming days, Cannes will debut George Miller's 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga', Francis Ford Coppola's self-financed Megalopolis', and anticipated new films by Paolo Sorrentino, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold, and Kevin Costner.

Godrèche's short film Moi Aussi will premiere on Wednesday. Festival workers, frustrated up with short-term contracts that make them ineligible for unemployment benefits between events, have threatened to strike. On Monday, Iranian director Mohammed Rasoulof announced that he had escaped Iran after being sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging. His film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, will premiere in competition at Cannes next week.