Both naturalistic and transfigured, photographer Robert Schlaug’s picture evokes a road to travel as well as an acceleration, an eye movement.
Between realism and digital artifact, the artist’s intervention disrupts codes and questions our perception, recalling the spirit of the films presented over the last 50 years by the Directors’ Fortnight.
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Saturday 18 May, 9.30 - 11.30 (doors open at 9.10) organized by l'Observatoire européen de l'audiovisuel.
Venue: Olympia cinema,
5 Rue de la Pompe, 06400 Cannes
Join us in Cannes for this year's must-attend European Audiovisual Observatory cinema conference! We'll be asking just how today’s European films are financed:
How is the fin...
The Carrosse d’Or will be awarded to John Carpenter during the 51st Directors’ Fortnight Opening Ceremony
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Nadine Labaki's three feature films catapulted her to international fame, from the Festival de Cannes’ red carpet to the Oscars ceremony a few months ago. The director, actress and screenwriter's career was first launched on the Croisette, and it is here that all her films have been unveiled.
"I remember back when I used to come to Cannes as a film student, I was so excited to experience the world's most prestigious festival," she stated. "Back t...
On the poster of this 58th Semaine de la Critique, Félix Maritaud, winner of the Louis Roederer Foundation Prize for Revelation, devotes himself to the goal of the photographer Aurélie Lamachère with the complicity of the agency "Les bons faisueurs".
Captured in the blue hour, the actor is one with the disturbing character in search of love that he embodies in SAUVAGE, first feature film by Camille Vidal-Naquet presented in competition at the Cr...
L'Atelier 2019 © RR
The Cinefondation’s Atelier hosts its fifteenth edition this year and will invite to the Festival de Cannes 15 directors whose projects have been considered particularly promising. Together with their producers, they will be able to meet potential partners, a necessary step to finish their project and start the making of their film. L’Atelier provides its participants access to international co-productions, thus accelerating the film&...
Paul Dano is an American actor, known for his roles in Little Miss Sunshine, There will be blood, Prisoners, Youth. Wildlife starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal is his directorial debut, based on the novel by Richard Ford.
What really spoke to you in this script?
I really wanted to do a film for a long time. And I’m glad it was this book that fell in my hands at the right time. I had read some short stories form the same writer before and I really love...
Pierre Deladonchamps is a French actor and filmmaker, known for Stranger by the lake, Golden Years & House of Time. In Sorry Angel (Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite) by Christophe Honoré portrays a 90s Parisian gay writer who develops a relationship with a young student, Vincent Lacoste, who is also one of France's youngest talents, known for Amanda and The French Kissers.
Bodies are very important in Christophe’s films. How did you get comfortable with that?
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Christophe Honoré is one of the most iconic contemporary French writers and directors, mostly known for Beloved, Metamorphoses & Les Chansons d'amour. Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite), which tells the story of two gay men from different backgrounds who meet in the turbulent Paris of the 90s, premieres in Competition at the 71st Festival De Cannes.
Did the idea come from a very personal place?
It’s a mixture of very personal e...
© Brigitte Lacombe
Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is to be President of the Jury of the 72nd Festival de Cannes, taking place in May 2019.
“Cannes is a festival that has been important to me since the beginning of my career, he has declared. I am humbled and thrilled to return this year with the immense honor of presiding over the Jury. Cinema runs through the veins of the planet and this festival has been its heart. We o...
Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Festival de Cannes and Christian Jeune, Director of the Film Department and Deputy General Delegate, have appointed Stéphanie Lamome as Artistic Advisor of the Film Department. Already a member of the selection committee, which includes eight peopl...
The Festival de Cannes is reshuffling its press department and has named AÏDA BELLOULID as Head of the Press Office. First and foremost, she will be handling international as well as domestic print & digital press. Equally, as a Publicist, she will be responsible for press accreditations, as well as organising screenings and press conferences.
She will be working alongside FRÉDÉRIC CASSOLY and CLÉMENT LEMOINE, who are to remain in charge of au...
The next Directors’ Fortnight will be held from May 15 to 25, 2019.
A new Programming Team for the Directors’ Fortnight
The Selection Committee
Paolo Bertolin
Paolo Bertolin is a festival programmer, film writer and producer equally splitting his time between Asia and Europe. For the past ten years, he has served as member of the selection committee first, and then as regional consultant for the Venice Fil...
Watch the stars and celebrities flock the red carpet with Sting, Asia Argento, Spike Lee, the jury members, and the cast and team of the Closing film by Terry Giliam : the man who killed don quixote
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Celebrating Grease's 40th anniversary in Cannes with a public screening on the beach. Check the red carpet....
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BLACKKKLANSMAN by Spike Lee
The House That Jack Built by Lars von Trier with Matt Dillon.
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Filmmaker Mark Cousins
Prolific filmmaker Mark Cousins' latest oeuvre “The Eyes of Orson Welles” (2018) is a documentary about the eponymous genius canon auteur director, his influence on cinema and shaping the collective psyche of our modern culture. Starring Northern Irish-born, Scottish resident director Mark Cousins himself and Orson's daughter Beatrice Welles, they set out to show us who Orson really was, giving us an intimate view of the man behind the mastery. The fi...
This is my Cannes experience, places and parties I have been to, and people, festival directors, clients or partners I met there.!
Fond memories in this slideshow.
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Anna was an editorial contributor for filmfestivals.com during 71st Cannes, some of her contribution are listed below.
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/cannes/yes_sir_rohena_geras_film_takes_the_distributors_award
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/cannes/the_cast_of_girl_on_the_red_carpet
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/cannes/fernando_solanas_lheure_des_brasiers_screened_as_part_of_cannes_classics_thursday_may_17_14h30_in_salle_bunuel
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/ca...
Dallas was an editorial contributor for filmfestivals.com during 71st Cannes, some of his contribution are listed below.
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/animation_day_in_cannes/a_risky_business
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/cannes/blackklansmen_an_okay_undercover_story
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/cannes/millennium_falcon_takes_a_dive
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/cannes/solitude_seen_in_a_crowded_theatre
https://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/cannes/wh...
Paramount Pictures hosted a special screening of the enduringly popular cultural phenomenon GREASE at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to celebrate the film’s 40th anniversary. John Travolta and director Randal Kleiser took part in the Cinéma de la Plage event on May 16th where fans relived the unforgettable moments, sensational soundtrack and classic love story at a spectacular outdoor screening of the newly restored film on the beach.
Thierry Frémaux, Festiva...
The 2018 Ecumenical Jury awards its Prize to :
CAPHARNAÜM
by Nadine Labaki
(Official Competition)
Throughout the Competition, it is women and children, ...
Patty Jenkins won this year's "Kering Women in Motion Award", the director of Wonder Woman. The award was given out at a gala event on May 13 at Cannes. This is one luxury party that most women will never be able to attend or be invited to attend. One attendee this year was Danish actor Mads Mikkelson who is on record for being against the work of women in Sweden presented at equality seminars by the Swedish Film Institute at Cannes 2013. Four theaters in Sweden use a ...
