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Willem Dafoe and Gael Garcia Bernal also among those called up for jury service at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.

The Cannes Film Festival has named the jury for its 67th edition, comprising eight world cinema names from China, Korea, Denmark, Iran, the Us, France and Mexico.

Jane Campion, the New Zealand filmmaker who won the Palme d’or for The Piano, was previously announced as the president of the jury, which will include five women and four men.

Cannes 2014: films

Those selected include Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish director, screenwriter and producer who won Best Direction at Cannes in 2011 with Drive. His most recent film, Only God Forgives, played in Competition at Cannes last year.

Also chosen is Sofia Coppola, the Us director and screenwriter whose debut The Virgin Suicides was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 1999. Coppola, who won a screenwriting Oscar for Lost in Translation, made it into...

Paris -- The New Year is starting on a bittersweet note in Gaul as legendary director-producer-actor-writer Claude Berri died Monday. He was 74.

"French cinema is now an orphan," Festival de Cannes president Gilles Jacob told reporters, leading a nation in bidding farewell to an industry giant.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Berri "the most legendary figure of French cinema," and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe referred to him as "a child of Paris who asserted himself as one of the major personalities of French cinema."

Best known for directing such films as "Jean de Florette" and "Manon des Sources," "Germinal" and "Lucie Aubrac," Berri went on to become a powerful producer, with more than 50 films under his belt.

His most recent projects include "Welcome to the Sticks," which broke boxoffice records in France last year, and "The Secret of the Grain," which won the 2008 Cesar for best film.

Berri worked with...