MUMBAI: The Cannes Film Festival has selected Jude Law and Uma Thurman as judges of this year’s Festival scheduled to be held from 11 to 22 May.

While Law and Thurman would represent UK and US respectively in the competition jury panel headed by Robert De Niro, French director Olivier Assayas, producer Nansun Shi, critic-writer Linn Ullmann, director Johnnie To, actress-producer Martina Gusman and director Mahamat Saleh Haroun from Chad would work also be part of the jury. 

The in-competition films, announced last week includes Paolo Sorrentino‘s This Must Be the Place, Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life and Lynne Ramsay‘s We Need to Talk About Kevin.