Scarlett Johansson is set to star on-screen and behind the camera at this year's Cannes Film Festival, organisers said Thursday as they unveiled the line-up of films that will compete for honours on the French Riviera.

Johansson will appear in Wes Anderson's new movie "The Phoenician Scheme" alongside Benicio Del Toro and Tom Hanks, one of the films competing for the coveted Palme d'Or for best film.

She will also present her directorial debut "Eleanor the Great", about an elderly woman coping with the death of her best friend, in the secondary "Un Certain Regard" competition.

Organisers stressed they were taking seriously the hard-hitting conclusions from a French parliamentary inquiry into the entertainment industry which concluded that sexual and psychological abuse, particularly of women, was "endemic".

President Iris Knobloch said the festival was "attentive" and was approaching MPs' recommendations to improve the safeguarding of performers "with seriousness and determination".

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