Indian actor Deepika Padukone will be a part of the competition for the jury at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the organizers said.

French actor Vincent Lindon will be heading the jury at the 75th edition of the coveted festival, which will run from May 17-28. The official Twitter account of the festival was announced late Tuesday evening.

Padukone is part of the eight-member jury that will reward one of the 21 films in competition with the Palme d’or during the closing ceremony on Saturday, May 28, PTI reported from Mumbai.

Other jury members include actor-filmmaker Rebecca Hall, Swedish actor Noomi Rapace, Italian actor-director Jasmine Trinca, acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, French filmmaker-actor Ladj Ly, filmmaker Jeff Nichols and director-screenwriter Joachim Trier from Norway.

In a statement, posted on the official website of the festival, Lindon said the jury “will strive to take the best possible care of the films of the future”.

“It is a great honor and source of pride to be entrusted, amid the tumult of all the events we are going through in the world, with the splendid, weighty task of chairing the Jury of the 75th International Cannes Film Festival,” Lindon said.

Padukone has a busy slate of projects which includes Shah Rukh Khan-led ‘Pathan’, ‘Fighter’ with Hrithik Roshan, an untitled movie with Prabhas, and the Hindi remake of the Hollywood movie ‘The Intern’.