Meet this yr’s Cannes jury.

The Swedish director Ruben Ostlund has gained the Palme d’Or twice — first for “The Square” in 2017, then final yr for “Triangle of Sadness.” This yr, he’s the president of the jury that decides who will get that prime prize.

Ostlund instructed The New York Times that he deliberate to have “a very Swedish approach when it comes to running the jury,” including, “It will be a democracy.”

At a news convention on Tuesday, he stated that the jury didn’t have many guidelines. “One thing is that this will be the first year in the history of the Cannes Film Festival when the publicists will have no rumors to tell to each other,” Ostlund stated.

In Ostlund’s movies, which skewer class and social hypocrisies, any character who made a vow like that might wind up doing the other. But don’t anticipate the highest prizewinner or any of the opposite awards to be his decisions alone.

He has eight fellow jurors. They embrace the French director Julia Ducournau, who has only one Palme to Ostlund’s two, having gained in 2021 for her genre-bending “Titane.” It was, as that yr’s jury president Spike Lee remarked on the time, possible the primary movie in historical past during which a Cadillac impregnated the heroine.

Several different jury members are administrators with Cannes pedigrees. Damián Szifron, from Argentina, is finest identified for his comedian anthology function “Wild Tales,” which confirmed in competitors in 2014. The Zambian-born Rungano Nyoni made “I am Not a Witch,” an absurdist story of an orphan accused of witchcraft; it was a favourite of critics when it performed within the parallel competition Directors’ Fortnight in 2017. And the Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani was right here final yr with “The Blue Caftan,” which confirmed within the competition’s Un Certain Regard part.

Another jury member, Atiq Rahimi, is each a filmmaker and an writer. Born in Afghanistan, Rahimi directed movie diversifications of his personal novels “Earth and Ashes” and “The Patience Stone.” As a ebook, the latter gained the Goncourt Prize, France’s most prestigious literary award.

Cannes all the time likes to have a little bit of Hollywood star wattage on its juries, and this yr, the American actors Brie Larson and Paul Dano provide it.

There was a tense second throughout Tuesday’s news convention, when a Variety reporter requested Larson if she would watch the competition’s opening movie, “Jeanne du Barry,” which stars Johnny Depp, since she has traditionally been a supporter of #TimesUp.

“You’re asking me that?” Larson stated, bristling. Pressed on the difficulty, she replied, “You’ll see, I guess, if I see it. And I don’t know how I’ll feel about it if I do.”

Rounding out the jury’s thespian contingent is the French actor Denis Ménochet, not too long ago seen as a crazy veteran in “Beau Is Afraid.”

At the news convention Ostlund stated: “If I could choose between an Oscar and Palme d’Or, it’s an easy choice. I’d rather have one more than have an Oscar.”

Kyle Buchanan contributed reporting.