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KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Directed by : Yorgos LANTHIMOS
Year of production: 2024
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Duration: 165
CREDITS
YORGOS LANTHIMOS
D...
An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiaoqiao and Bin, set in China, from the early 2000s to the present day. Caught up in each other, Qiaoqiao and Bin enjoyed all that the city had to offer, singing and dancing. Until one day, Bin finds himself wanting to try his luck in a bigger place than Datong. He left without any notice. Some time later, Qiaoqiao decides to go on a journey to look for him. Traversing all of his past films, Jia Zhangke delivers an epic look at the romantic destiny...
The long journey of Parthenope’s life, from her birth in 1950 till today. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but brimming with an inexorable passion for freedom, Naples, and the faces of love—all those true, pointless, and unspeakable loves. The perfect Capri summer, the lightheartedness of youth. Which ends in ambush. And then all the others—the Neapolitans, men and women, observed and loved, disillusioned and vital, their waves of melancholy, their tragic ironies and deject...
Megalopolis is a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America.The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her...
The city of Cannes, France is transforming as setup for the 77th annual international film festival is well underway! The full festivities will commence this Tuesday, May 14th, 2024. Follow along for all of the festival news through videos here on YouTube, blogposts on our website, and various social media platforms.
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A famed Canadian documentary filmmaker, gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth about his life. A confession filmed right in front of his wife…
Directed by : Paul SCHRADER
Year of production: 2024
Country: United States
Duration: 95
CREDITS
PAUL SCHRADER
Director
PAUL SCHRADER
Screenplay
ANDREW WONDER
Cinematography
DEBORAH JENSEN
Production Design
PHOSPHORESCENT
Music
BENJAMIN RODRIGUEZ JR.
Editing
JA...
To properly inaugurate its emblematic beach in Cannes, Magnum® welcomed the crew of the film The Surfer last night. Led by director Lorcan Finnegan, Nicolas Cage and the many actors in the film shared their enthusiasm with the audience and released the pressure during an unforgettable opening evening, as only Magnum® knows how to organize them.
The credits of The Surfer feature an exceptional cast, with an impressive filmography: Nicolas Cage (Birdy, Sai...
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Directed by : Sean BAKER
Year of production: 2024
Country: United States
Duration: 138
CREDITS
SEAN BAKER
Director
SEAN BAKER
Screenplay
DREW DANIELS
Cinematography
STEPHEN PHELPS
Production Design
MATTHEW ...
This is the story of a woman named Chiara.
She is an actress, the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. During a summer that sees her reality fall into disarray, Chiara decides to live as her father.
She dresses like him. She speaks like him. She breathes like him. Chiara’s impersonation is so convincing that people around her begin to believe. They call her “Marcello.”
Directed by : Christophe HONORÉ
Year of production: 2024
Country: France
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Sylvie Pialat, President of the Jury of the 63ʳᵈ Semaine de la Critique ©DAVID BALICK
CHANGES IN LA SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE'S JURY
Due to personal reasons, Rodrigo Sorogoyen unfortunately has to step down as President of the jury for the 63rd Semaine de la Critique.
Sylvie Pialat has accepted to take over as President of the Jury.
French director Iris Kaltenbäck, who successfully presented The Rapture at La Semaine last year, joins the ...
Every day at 9:30PM, the Festival de Cannes reinvents itself as night falls, transforming the Croisette's Plage Macé, opposite the Majestic hotel, into an open-air cinema.
In addition to the screenings, meetings and Official Selection events held at the Palais des Festivals, this is another way for everyone to get involved to the great cinema party.
On the programme for the 77th Festival: teams on stage, world premieres, suspense, action, Jackie Chan, Brian De Palma, Ma...
The 2024 edition of the Cannes International Film Festival, which runs from May 15 through 25, offers another magnificent portrait of contemporary French cinema, with six French films vying for the Palme d'Or.
And as is the case every year, France, the home of cinema and the cradle of numerous international co-productions, will be present in all sections, with a total of almost 100 titles produced or co-produced by France, including minority-French productions and shorts.
The festiva...
Photo credit: © Alfonse Chiu
Kering and the Festival de Cannes are proud to present the 2024 Women In Motion Emerging Talent Award to Malaysian filmmaker Amanda Nell Eu, selected by Swiss director and 2023 Emerging Talent awardee Carmen Jaquier. Since 2019, the promising female director is chosen by the preceding Award winner to follow in her footsteps and receive this prize, which includes a grant of €50,000 to support the creation of her next film project.
The presentation will...
© Maneki Films
The Festival de Cannes, which runs from May 14 to 25, will present French actress, director, screenwriter and producer Judith Godrèche's new short film, which highlights the stories of victims of sexual violence. These individual experiences add to her own, underscoring their sadly universal nature. The Festival de Cannes thus wishes to give resonance to these personal accounts.
Cinema looks at the world, and sometimes, calls it out.
Through gestures o...
Meryl Streep will be the guest of honour at the opening ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes which will take place on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Tuesday, May 14. A celebrated figure in American cinema, the American actress will kick-off the upcoming edition which will draw to a close on Saturday, May 25th with the awards’ list given by the President of the Jury, Greta Gerwig.
After Jeanne Moreau, Marco Bellocchio, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pie...
Greta Gerwig © Ben Rayner / Ebru Ceylan © Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Lily Gladstone © Lindsay Siu / Eva Green © Xavier Torres-Bacchetta / Nadine Labaki © Jihad Hojeili / Juan Antonio Bayona © Germán Romani / Pierfrancesco Favino © Pablo Arroyo / Kore-eda Hirokazu © Mikiya Takimoto / Omar Sy © Selly SY
The Jury for the 77th Festival de Cannes, chaired by Greta Gerwig, will include Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actres...
© Festival de Cannes
The Cannes Classics selection, created twenty years ago, once again features celebrations, restored prints and documentaries. It will be marked by the presence of great artists: Faye Dunaway, Wim Wenders, Sylvia Chang, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Marco Bellocchio, Ron Howard, Frederick Wiseman, Dong-ho Kim, Montxo Armendáriz and more, to visit the history of cinema with those who preserve and restore our heritage, those who distribute and show film...
The Canadian actor, director, screenwriter and producer Xavier Dolan will be the President of the Un Certain Regard Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes. He will be joined by French-Senegalese screenwriter and director Maïmouna Doucouré, Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer Asmae El Moudir, German-Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps, and American film critic, director, and writer Todd McCarthy. They will be in charge of awarding prizes for the Un Certain Regard section, which sh...
Flanked by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Paolo Moretti, Claudine Nougaret and Vladimir Perišić, the Belgian actress Lubna Azabal will award the Short Film Palme d'or and the 3 La Cinef prizes, the Festival de Cannes' selection dedicated to student films.
The Jury will discover the 11 films in the Short Film Competition and the 18 films in La Cinef selection unveiled today.
Short films and La Cinef Jury and selections of the 77th Festival de Cannes
Lubna Azabal © Domin...
Napoléon by Abel Gance (1st period)! A legend known to cinephiles the world over, a major work of the silent era, one of the most monumental restorations in the history of filmmaking will be unveiled on May 14 as a world premiere: Napoléon by Abel Gance (1st period), in a version resulting from a colossal, passionate effort by the Cinémathèque française, with the support of the CNC.
(photo: Still from the film Napoléon by Abel Gance © La Cin&e...
© Shochiku Co., Ltd. / Kurosawa Prod. – Graphic design © Hartland Villa
Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991)
All the poetic beauty, hypnotic magic and apparent simplicity of the cinema emerge in this scene from Rhapsody in August, authored by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, 81 at the time. In this film, presented Out of Competition in Cannes in 1991, a grandmother who was a victim of the Nagasaki bombing on August 9, 1945, passes on her faith in love an...
Quentin Dupieux's Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act), the latest film from the prolific French director and screenwriter, who is also a musician, will open the forthcoming Festival de Cannes. Presented Out of Competition as a world premiere on the Croisette on Tuesday, May 14, this four-part comedy will be released in all French cinemas on the same day.
To launch the festivities of the 77th edition, a daring and unpredictable artist will stride the red carpet at the Grand Th&e...
Written by Isabella Walker
With Director, Andrea Arnold along with actors, Jason Buda as Hunter, Jasmine Hobson as Peyton, James Nelson Joyce as Skate, Frankie Box as Kayleigh, Barry Keoghan as Bug, Franz Rogowski as Bird, and Nykiya Adams as Bailey, the film encapsulates a beautifully captured story of abuse, friendship, homelessness, puberty, growing up, trust, and togetherness awarding a 7 minute well deserved standing ovation from its audience.
An emotionally captivating film of a teenag...
Written by Isabella Walker
The emotions were high and positive as the night started with special guests, Meryl Streep, Greta Gerwig, Juliette Binoche, and many more. The house was full of well-known directors, actors, and actresses, producers.
The jury introduced the jury for the 77th Festival de Cannes including Ebru Ceylan, Lily Gladstone, Eva Green, Nadine Labaki, Juan Antonio Bayona, Pierfrancesco Favino, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Omar Sy, ...
First Indian Film to Screen In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 30 Years
(Cannes, France - May 20, 2024) - Sideshow and Janus Films announced today that they have acquired all North American rights to ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT, written and directed by Payal Kapadia. The film is the first Indian film to screen in Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 30 years. It’s also one of only four films in the Competition directed by a woman. Kapadia previously brought her doc...
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