During the 65th edition of the Festival de Cannes the Cannes Movie Stars Lounge will be set up at the Hotel Martinez.Cannes Movie Stars Lounge stems from the success of the Venetian project and will be a working area for talents, film professionals, journalists and photographers. Thanks to the collaboration of the major publicist companies and PRs the Lounge will host the press activities of some of the mo...
The Apulia Film Commission Foundation is proud to present its new international fund in Cannes in support of foreign film productions, the APULIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FUND.
On Sunday 20 May at 4:30pm at the Plage Goéland (opposite the Hotel Majestic Barriere), the Apulia Region has organised a cocktail reception where representatives of the APULIA FILM COMMISSION will present details of this fund and other services offered by the Foundation to producers and journalists.
Five years since i...
Multi Oscar®-winning American screenwriter and film director Paul Haggis (Crash, 2004) will co-host the official presentation of the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Fest in Cannes Saturday (May 19th) at 11:15am at the International Village's Italian Pavilion. Joining him will be Italian iconic movie producer Marina Cicogna, Rumanian supermodel and actress Madalina Ghenea, producers Avi Lerner (Nu Image), Nicolas Chartier (Voltage Pictures), and Fulvio Lucisano (IIF) along with Fes...
The entire film cast of Reality, the film by Matteo Garrone presented this Friday in Competition, answered questions from the journalists.
Matteo Garrone, about the genesis of Reality:
"After Gomorrah, I was looking for a subject which would live up to the mark, with at least the same force, and which would be as surprising and as sound as Gomorrah, if not more. Little by little, I realised that I was heading for disaster. One day, I came across this small story which takes pl...
According to Variety Gwyneth Paltrow is in negotiations to play opposite Antonio Banderas in "Guernica 33 Days" the tale of Pablo Picasso's emotional turmoil as he painted his masterpiece.
Carlos Saura ("The Hunt," "Raise Ravens,") directs (Variety, Feb. 20) from a screenplay he co-wrote with Spanish producer Elias Querejeta and French scribe Louis-Charles Sirjacq.
Guido Rud's FilmSharks Intl. has acquired worldwide rights outside France and Spain. Spain's ...
Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple.Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent - Madagascar style.
Directed by:
Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath
Conrad Vernon
Writing credits: (screenplay)
Eric Darnell
Noah Baumbach
Starring the voices of:
Ben Stiller (as Alex)
Chris Rock...
PIONEERING ARTIST KANYE WESTTO DEBUT SHORT ARTFILM INSPIRED BY THE NEW G.O.O.D. MUSIC ALBUM "CRUEL SUMMER"AND CREATED BY DONDA IN SURROUND VISION - THE 7 SCREEN EXPERIENCE - INCANNES ON MAY 23RD On Wednesday 23 May 2012, Kanye West andhis creative firm DONDA will bring his new cinematic experience CRUELSUMMER to the world famous PalmBeach in Cannes. Inspired by the new G.O.O.D.Music album of the same name, CRUEL SUMMER is a fusion of shortfilm ...
Marche Forville
In the real world, festivals for most attendees are more hard work than glamorous non-stop parties. For those of us who struggle to find time for anything but work over the first stretch of the Cannes Marche du Film, here are a few survival tips that have always helped me:
1. Carry water and bring a lunch. The two things that will keep you going throughout the day are also the things that tend to get put off til later... and you realize that at 6pm, you haven't had ...
The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival began yesterday. Opening the festival last night was the latest Wes Anderson film, Moonrise Kingdom, which Anderson co-wrote with Roman Coppola. The film stars Bill Murrary, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and Tilda Swinton.
Of course, the festival didn't begin without at least an ounce of controversy. A group of female filmmakers wrote a letter, which was published in Le Monde, voicing their discontent over the fact that there are no female-made mo...
While waiting in the last-minute line at the Palais last night in hopes of getting into the second showing of Moonrise Kingdom, I met a few of the young crew members from Future Masters of Technology, a British independent filmmaking company comprised of mulit-award winning individuals who "pride [them]selves on [their] ability to produce low-budget films to a high-budget standard." The first man who introduced himself was Anthony Woodley, the writer, director, and one of the ...
Oscar winner Kim Basinger, Oscar Nominee Mickey Rourke, Anne Heche, Mbong Amata, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Enyinna Nwigwe tells this story of greed, murder and corruption pitted against human and environmental issues.
Based on true events, Black November is written and directed by Nigerian director, Jeta Amata, who exposes the struggle of a Niger Delta community against their own government and a multi-national oil corporation.
Cannes pr...
Country: THAILAND, UNITED KINGDOM
Year: 2012
Duration: 61.00 minutes
Thai Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who took home the 2010 Palme d’Or for his film ‘UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010)’, returns to Cannes two years later to present his latest work, 'MEKONG HOTEL' (2012).
'MEKONG HOTEL' is an experimental film featuring the director himself as he works with cast and crew on another of his films called: 'THE ECSTACY GARDEN'. Tr...
Snapshots from my first day in Cannes, images worth 1000 words.
Diner sitting right of Tim Berners Lee (inventor of the Internet) "God" as his fellows at W3C nickname him. I gave a keynote on film and Web (Friends or Foes)
Morning moment at the City Hall with Bernard Brochand (Mayor of Cannes: my former Boss says Hi)
Meeting at Dubai Film Festival's booth at Pantiero
A quick check at Rendez Vous des Exploitants to get my badge (run by Coté Cinéma), RDV to attend Uni...
Electrolux brought culinary artistry to the Opening Gala with a dining collaboration between two Michelin star chefs; Bruno Oger and Rasmus Kofoed.
Guests Tilda Swinton and Diane Kruger enjoyed an imaginative menu from Oger and Kofoed that mixed Cannes art de vivre with Scandinavian ingenuity, all created in the Agora kitchen.
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DE ROUILLE ET D'OS
SYNOPSIS
Ali suddenly finds himself in charge of Sam, his 5 years old
son that he barely knows. Penniless and without friends, he leaves the north of
France to seek shelter at his sister’s in Antibes. Even though she and her
husband do not have much money, they make a room for them in their garage and
take care of Sam.
Ali finds work as a bouncer at a local nightclub. After diffusing a fight one
evening, he meets Stephanie a beautifu...
BAAD EL MAWKEAA (AFTER THE BATTLE)
SYNOPSIS:
Mahmoud was one of the horsemen coerced by lowly henchmen
for Mubarak's regime into carrying out attacks on protesters in Tahrir Square
on February 2, 2011.
He has since lost his job. Humiliated and ostracized, he
lives near the Pyramids with his wife and sons.
His family is on the brink of despair when he meets Reem,
a secular Egyptian divorcee who works in advertising.
She is a fervent revolutiona...
ULTRA presents Jalpari, The Desert Mermaid at the 65th Cannes Film Festival
From the director of the award-winning 'I am Kalam' comes an adventure of a girl who "will dare to go where no girl has ever gone before".
SYNOPSIS:
A well-heeled familyfrom the tiny neighborhood of New Delhi travels from the city through dusty roads that lead into the village in Haryana, far out and buried in the debris of the ...
Bollywood in Cannes at Director's Fortnight, 2012!
For the first time ever, commercial Bollywood comes to Cannes Director's Fortnight with the Bollywood film GANGS OF WASSEYPUR (2012). The film will be released on June 22nd and being compared to this year's SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.
GOW PRESS
The Indian cinematic masterpiece Gangs Of Wasseypur, is set to make film history as the first commerical Bollywood film to be part of the 65th Cannes Film Fes...
Preperation for Cannes Festival Opening Gala Dinner at Electrolux Agora 11th May4
Electrolux bring 90 years of Culinary Expertise to “the most important annual dinner in France” at Film Festival de Cannes with award-winning partner chefs.
The Electrolux Agora Pavilion will host the official 2012 Film Festival de Cannes Opening Gala Dinner and the Jury Deliberation Lunches. The former of these is considered “the most important annual dinner in France” by Electrolux part...
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore -- and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Franc...
Synopsis
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore - and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way.
Wes ANDERSON Credits
Wes ANDERSON - Director
Wes ANDERSON - Screenplay
Roman COPPOLA -...
Alongside the films in Competition, the Official Selection Un Certain Regard also welcomes its own Jury which will announce his awards during a ceremony on stage at the Debussy Theater, on Saturday, May,26.The Jury, presided over by British actor and director Tim Roth, is composed of five personalities of cinema. They will have to choose among the twenty films in Un Certain Regard Selection.
Tim Roth (actor and director), President of the Jury Leïla Bekhti (actress) Tonie Marshall...
The International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) and the Ethiopian Film Initiative (EFI) announced today the three filmmakers selected for a week-long visit to Monaco and Cannes for workshops, programs and events happening during the 2012 Cannes film festival this May. They are: Henok Mebratu, Olisarali Olibui Tongolu and Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn.
The trip will provide an opportunity for the filmmakers to meet a range of influential distributors, sales ...
Queer Palm President Julie Gayet
The 2012 Queer Palm Jury was announced this week - which will bestow the LGBT
Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm award on the best film with a gender,
and LGBT perspective on May 27 in Cannes. The films are selected from
the Official selection, Un Certain Regard, Semaine de la
Critique, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and ACID (selection of independents
film-makers) - about 100 films.
Last year that prize was given to Oliver Herma...
The Festival de Cannes is proud to welcome Haiti: Carnival in Cannes a benefit event presented by Giorgio Armani in support of Sean Penn’s J/P HRO, Paul Haggis’ Artists for Peace and Justice and Petra Nemcova’s Happy Heart’s Fund for their united and extraordinary work in Haiti
On 12 January 2010, life in Haiti was thrown into chaos by an earthquake of a magnitude that was previously unheard of on the island. Hundreds of thousands of people were dead and wounded, a catastrop...
