Los Angeles, April 22 -- Filmmaker Payal Kapadia, known for 'All We Imagine as Light', will serve as the president of the jury for the 65th Cannes Critics' Week, reported The Hollywood Reporter.

Kapadia will be joined on the jury by Canadian actor Theodore Pellerin, French singer-songwriter Oklou, Ghanaian-British producer Ama Ampadu, and journalist and Bangkok World Film Festival director Donsaron Kovitvanitcha.

Payal Kapadia has, over the course of six short and feature-length films, "crafted a body of work where poetry contrasts with her unflinching political take on her country," said the Critics' Week in a statement.

"This duality underpins the power of her cinema, a universe that summons all forms to convey folk myths, and bring ...