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> WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN CANNES
The Jury of the 70th Festival de Cannes, presided by Pedro Almodóvar, has revealed the names of the 2017 prize-winners during the Awards Ceremony. Monica Bellucci welcomed the prize-givers and winners onto the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière. The President of the Jury and the French actress Juliette Binoche, had the honour of awarding the Palme d’or to the best of the nineteen fi...
Diane Kruger has been awarded the Best Actress award at the 70th Festival de Cannes for her role in German director Fatih Akin's competition entry IN THE FADE (DE/FR, bombero international, Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany, corazón international). This was announced this evening at the awards ceremony in Cannes. The Palme d'Or went to the German co-production THE SQUARE by Ruben Östlund (SE/FR/DE/DK, Essential Film). LOVELESS by Andrey Zvyagintsev (RU/BE/D...
Elizabeth Olsen (of the FBI) and Jeremy Renner in Wind River WIND RIVER. Superb! ( Best direction, Un Certain Regard) "She ran six miles barefoot in the snow and died of burst frozen lungs ..." Rape and murder on the reservation with Jeremy Renner really coming into his own as a not particularly handsome leading man. Very strong as the predator hunter with high powered rifle on high speed snowmobile --At the end of this snowy subzero nail biter Renner subjects the bloodied f...
The FIPRESCI Jury awarded three prizes: two in the Official Selection – one for the Competition and one for "Un Certain Regard" –, and a third one for either "The Critics Week" or the "Directors' Fortnight". Prize in the Official Selection / Competition: "120 Beats Per Minute" (BPM – Beats Per Minute / 120 battements par minute) by Robin Campillo (France, 2017, 140 min), "A film about love. A film about life....
Un Certain Regard 2017 presented in competition 18 films hailing from 22 different countries. 6 of the works were first films. The Opening film was BARBARA by Mathieu Amalric. Under the presidency of Uma Thurman (actress - United States), the Jury was comprised of Mohamed Diab (director - Egypt), Reda Kateb (actor - France), Joachim Lafosse (director - Belgium) and Karel Och (artistic direct...
The 2017 Ecumenical Jury awards its Prize to Hikari (Radiance) by Naomi Kawase (Official Competition) Misako, a young woman who provides audio-description, rend...
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The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Cristian Mungiu and including Clotilde Hesme, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Barry Jenkins and Eric Khoo, has awarded the 2017 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films. ...
Dario Vigano came to Cannes with a short text on Cinema to share " Cinema Stories of Hope" and a message from the Pope. He met many film professionals and media during his day, with two panels and close to 40 media representatives. Following the last panel at American Pavilion The teal of Festival Sacré took him to visit the booth of the Jury Oecumenique.
Dario had delivered during the panel a message from Pope Francis: I have translated this paragraph for you. The french text is available
here. Communicating hope and trust in our time, is the title chosen by the pope for the 51st world day for social communication (May 28), to attract the attention of all media and information professionals, the entire community, to being promoters of the true and honest stories, not t...
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Cristian Mungiu and including Clotilde Hesme, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Barry Jenkins and Eric Khoo, has awarded the 2017 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films. The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 16 student films, chosen out of 2 600 entries coming from 626 fi...
The prizes and awards given by the partners of La Semaine de la Critique are &nb...
In Lynne Ramsay's kidnapping thriller They Were Never Really Here, Joaquin Phoenix plays a veteran named Joe who has been working under the table as a hired gun, rescuing young girls from sex trafficking rings. After he is hired to save a senator's daughter, Nina, played by Ekaterina Samsonov, he uncovers a plot of corruption and violence. Lynne Ramsay has created an atmospheric and intense thriller that is unlike any other in the genre. She juxtaposes beautifu...
Last night I had the honor of walking the red carpet for 'You Were Never Really Here'. The cameras were flashing, photographers were yelling, but it wasn't for me, obviously. There were security guards herding the crowd into the building as guests tried to take as many selfies as possible. I was alone in the crowd of people, observing the faces, the lights flashing in the eyes of the people until an elderly woman with a wonderful sense of style offered to take my photo for m...
> CANNES MARKET NEWS AND PREVIEWS
The past 10 days have seen record-breaking numbers: 12,324 registered participants, 3,820 films on sale, 1,522 screenings and 5,300 viewings of VR contents. Afghanistan, Honduras, Macau, Mali and Uzbekistan saw their first time at the Marché, while there was an increase in participants from Asia. Thank you for making this year's Marché such a wonderful event and we hope it has been fruitful for you. If you missed some Festival and Marché films in Cannes, you c...
