26-year-old director to be jury member of Cannes Film Festival 2015

Young filmmaker Xavier Dolan - affectionately known as "the boy genius" - has attracted attention in the recently announced jury for the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Director Xavier Dolan has just been announced as a member of the jury of the most prestigious film festival in world cinema for the 68th time, along with American actor Jake Gyllenhaal, British actress Sienna Miller, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, Spanish star Rossy de Palma and Malian writer and composer Rokia Traoré. The president of this year's jury is the famous director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. They will evaluate, judge and choose the Palme d'Or, which will be announced at the closing ceremony of the film festival on May 24.

Six years after making his debut film, director Xavier Dolan became a judge at the world's most prestigious film festival. In this photo, Xavier Dolan walks the red carpet at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

Xavier Dolan's participation in Cannes as a jury member is an honor for Canadian cinema and "hot news" for his fans. At 26 years old, Xavier Dolan has just entered the film industry but is already admired by the film industry. Just 6 years ago, his first film, I Killed My Mother, was released and won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival, was shown in 20 countries and territories, helping the director to be affectionately called a wunderkind by critics.

Last year, Xavier's fifth feature film, Mommy, continued its winning streak at the festival in France. At the end of the screening, the audience stood and applauded for 14 minutes. Although it lost out on the Palme d'Or to Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep, Mommy won the overall jury prize, the "Jury Prize," shared with veteran filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language.

This year's Cannes Film Festival takes place from May 13 to May 24. On the opening night, the film La Tete Haute by French director Emmanuelle Bercot was selected to be screened. Among the 21 films competing for the Palme d'Or, three are from Asia. The first is The Assassin by veteran Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, starring Shu Qi. The other two are Mountains May Depart by Chinese director Jia Zhangke and Our Little Sister by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda.

According to VNE