The presence of Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve will bring some Canadian content to the Palme d’Or jury at next month’s Cannes Film Festival.

He’ll be part of a nine-member international panel led by double Oscar-winning Aussie actress Cate Blanchett that is also notable for having more women than men — five women, four men.

The other women are director Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle in Time) and Twilight actress Kristen Stewart from the U.S., actress Léa Seydoux (a Palme winner for Blue Is the Warmest Color) from France and singer-songwriter Khadja Nin from the African nation of Burundi.

Villeneuve, 50, whose most recent film was the sci-fi epic Blade Runner 2049, has previously competed for the Palme with his drug war thriller Sicario in 2015.

Now he’ll be among the prestigious jury awarding the Palme and other prizes at the close of the 71st edition of the festival, which runs from May 8-19.

The other men on the panel are Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev (whose lost-child drama Loveless competed for the Palme last year, winning the Jury Prize), Chinese actor Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and French writer/director Robert Guédiguian (The Snows of Kilimanjaro).

Villeneuve has been participating at Cannes for 21 years. He was part of the multi-director film Cosmos that premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar in 1997.

His first solo feature, August 32nd on Earth, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in 1998. He returned to Cannes with Next Floor (2008), Polytechnique (2009) and the Oscar-nominated Sicario. He’s also known for two other Oscar-nominated films: Incendies (2010) and Arrival (2017).