Polley, Pamuk among Cannes jurists

Canadian actress Sarah Polley will join Nobel Prize-winning writerOrhan Pamuk, British director Stephen Frears and other international filmmakers on the main competition jury at Cannes this year.

Organizers of the prestigious Cannes International Film Festival unveiled a host of details Thursday about the upcoming event, set to unspool from May 16-27.

Frears was previously announced as the chair of the panel that will ultimately select the winner of the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.

He, Pamuk and Polley will be joined on the jury by:

• Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung.
• Australian actress Toni Collette.
• French actor and director Michel Piccoli.
• Portuguese actress and director Maria de Medeiros.
• Italian director Marco Bellocchio.
• Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako.

The festival celebrates its 60th anniversary this year and will screen the commissioned production To Each His Own Cinema, an homage to the movie theatre comprised ofthree-minute mini-films by approximately three dozen top directors, including David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Ken Loach, Roman Polanski and Jane Campion.

Canadian theatre director Robert Carsen has created the on-stage introduction for To Each His Own Cinema, which Cannes organizers will screen on May 20 andsimulcast on French TV channel Canal Plus.

Aside from the usual bevy of glitzy movie premieres and screenings, this year's festival will also include tributes to U.S. filmmaker Martin Scorsese and actor Henry Fonda.