Pierfrancesco Favino on Cannes Film Festival jury

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino was among the stars named on Monday on the jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which takes place May 14-25.
    The jury, chaired by Greta Gerwig, will also feature Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu and French actor and producer Omar Sy. Favino has gained recognition with Gabriele Muccino's debut hit The Last Kiss (2001) and his award-winning performance in Michele Placido's Romanzo Criminale (2005).
    He also pursued a parallel Hollywood career, with roles in Ron Howard's Angels and Demons and Rush, Spike Lee's Miracle at St.
    Anna and Marc Foster's World War Z.
    In 2018, he played Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta in Marco Bellocchio's The Traitor, which was presented in competition at Cannes 2019, and he returned in 2022 with Mario Martone's Nostalgia, which was also in competition. (ANSA).