2023 Cannes Film Festival: Actor John C. Reilly to preside over Un Certain Regard jury

Following last year’s Italian director, actress and producer Valeria Golino, this year finds Academy Award-nominated American actor John C. Reilly set to preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury, together with French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour, German actress Paula Beer, French-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou and Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne. Reilly will be in charge of awarding prizes for the Un Certain Regard section, which showcases art and discovery films by young auteurs.

“I have had so many life changing moments at the Festival de Cannes, from my miraculous first trip with Paul Thomas Anderson to celebrating my 50th birthday from the Palais stage!, so to be chosen as the President of Un Certain Regard Jury is truly such an incredible honor,” said Reilly. He continued, “Many of the films I have been lucky to appear in have been selected by the Festival over these many years and nothing feels as special as being invited to this amazing annual gathering of the very best cinema has to offer the world. I look forward to helping launch another generation of filmmakers on this special occasion as the Festival has done since its inception. I am humbled and thrilled. ¡Viva Cinema!”

The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will run May 16-27. This year, 20 films have been selected (one last addition to the selection is announced in this press release, Salem by Jean-Bernard Marlin), including 8 debut films. The 2022 Un Certain Regard top prize went to French directors Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret’s debut feature Les Pires (The Worst Ones). See this year’s Un Certain Regard lineup below.

Los Delincuentes (The Delinquents), Rodrigo Moreno

How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker

Goodbye Julia, Mohamed Kordofani

Crowra (The Burti Flower), João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora

Simple Comme Sylvain, Monia Chokri

Kadib Abyad (The Mother of All Lies), Asmae EL Moudir

Los Colonos (The Settlers), Felipe Galvez

Augure (Omen), Baloji Tshiani

The Breaking Ice, Anthony Chen

Rosalie, Stéphanie Di Giusto

The New Boy, Warwick Thornton

If Only I Could Hibernate, Zoljargal Purevdash

Hopeless, Kim Chang-hoon

Terrestrial Verses, Ali Asfari & Alireza Khatami

Rien a Perdre, Delphine Deloget

Les Meutes, Kamal Lazraq

Le Regne Animal, Thomas Cailley

Salem, Jean-Bernard Marlin

Photos: John C. Reilly © Kirk MacKoy / Getty Images – Alice Winocour © Aurélie Lamachère – Émilie Dequenne © Delphine Ghosarossian – Paula Beer © Christian Hartmann – Davy Chou © Julien Lienard