Eva Longoria

On 17 May, the 75th Cannes Film Festival started in France. Julianne Moore, Eva Longoria, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Meryem Uzerli and other stars attended the opening ceremony.

Julianne Moore
Eva Longoria
Meryem Uzerli
Nikolai Coster-Waldau and his wife

Katherine Langford

Rossy de Palma

Hofit Golan

Victoria Bonya

Carolyn Daur

Noomi Rapace

Berenice Bejo

On the afternoon of May 17, according to tradition, a photo shoot was held for the jury, this year the jury was chaired by the French actor Vincent Lindon. Also on the jury were British actress and producer Rebecca Hall, Indian actress Deepika Padukone, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace, Italian actress Jasmine Trinca and directors Asghar Farhadi, Laj Lee, Jeff Nichols and Joachim Trier.

Rebecca Hall

The 75th festival will be the last for the retired festival director Pierre Lescure, who has held this position for many years. She will be succeeded by Iris Knobloch, the first woman elected to the post.

This year’s film festival opened with “Final Cut” directed by Michel Hazanavicius, a remake of Shinichiro Ueda’s student film “One Plan Zombies!”, which has become a cult film in Japan. This movie was originally announced under the name Z, but was renamed on the ground of a military special operation at the request of the residents of Ukraine.

This year the Cannes Film Festival refused to accept a Russian delegation because of the military special operation in Ukraine, but made an exception for directors Kirill Serebrennikov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexander Sokurov. Despite the invitation, Sokurov refused to participate in the festival with his film “Fairy Tale”.

The premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov’s new film, Tchaikovsky’s Wife, starring Odin Byron, Yulia Aug and Oxxxymiron, will be held today.

At the opening of the film festival, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the guests via satellite. In his 10-minute speech, he stated that his country continues to fight.

Earlier it was also known that Russian journalists were denied accreditation to the Cannes Film Festival, despite the fact that the film by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov was included in the main program of the festival.

The Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 17-28.