Forest Whitaker will be at the 2022 Film Festival
Forest Whitaker Palme honours 75th Cannes Festival After Jodie Foster in 2021, it is the actor Forest Whitaker who will be the guest of honour at the opening ceremony of the 75th Cannes Festival, broadcast live by France Télévisions and Brut. Like Jeanne Moreau, Bernardo Bertolucci, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Agnès Varda and Alain Delon, he will receive a Palme d'or d'honneur, which salutes a brilliant artistic journey and a rare personality as well as a discreet but affirmed commitment in the great humanitarian actions of our time. « 34 years ago, coming to Cannes for the first time changed my life and confirmed that dedicating myself to seeking different relations with humanity through cinema was the right decision. It is always a privilege to come back for this beautiful festival, to expose my work there but also to be inspired by the greatest artists in the world. I am incredibly honoured to be celebrated as part of the 75th anniversary of the Festival. » Forest WhitakerPalma gold honour of the 75th Cannes Festival On this occasion, For the Sake of Peace, directed by Christophe Castagne and Thomas Sametin and produced by Forest Whitaker, will be screened on Wednesday, May 18 in Special Session. For the Sake of Peace Previous Next In 2011, after an endless war of independence, South Sudan became the youngest nation in the world. Two years later, a terrible civil war devastated this already ruined country. 350,000 people lost their lives and millions of South Sudan
