I am a huge fan of the genre, confess binge watching The Walking Dead, then Z Nation... but was very disappointed watching Jim Jarmusch's latest film. The beginning is very slow..., apocalypse as we know it from other Z movies, takes ages to happen. I was hoping for more creative attempts to renew the genre, the humor falls short or totally out of tune at moments. The ending is extremely flat... It seemed to please the audience, but i am not sure the all the fans wi...
Edouard Baer, french comedian, hosted the Cannes ceremony with his classic witty style.
Iñárritu, the jury president, delivered a long speech in spanish, which everybody seemed to understand and applaud. A few clips from his amazing career weree shown prior the screening of Jim Jarmusch..
This evening on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Javier Bardem launched the start of the screenings and festivities of the 72nd edition of t...
The Dead Don’t Die, Jim Jarmusch’s new film, will be screened at the Opening, and in Competition – a world premiere!
The 72nd Festival de Cannes will open with the Competition screening of Jim Jarmusch's new film, The Dead Don't Die. On Tuesday May 14th, on the screen of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the film by the American director and screenwriter will be this year’s first Palme d'Or competition screening.
In the sleepy small tow...
Today, the members of the Jury of the Cannes film Festival all expressed their excitement in pariticipating. For some up and coming members like Elle Fanning, this is a completely new experience and she is completely enthused. The Jury also is celebrating the diversity within its membership, having direcor Alejandro Iñarritu as its first ever Latin-American president. At the confrerence, Iñarritu expressed his gratitude of how both films and filmmaking are chaniging in our modern e...
Cannes Film Festival director, Therry Frémaux gave some remarks yesterday during press conference. He expressed how special it was that Quentin Tarantino will be returning with his new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a whole 25 years after the release of Pulp Fiction. He also expressed his reasons for choosing Alejandro Inaritu as the Judge for the festival's jury, stating that "there were a lot of reasons to choose him as he comes from a land that is less represented in c...
Along with the screenings, encounters and events of the Official Selection held at the Palais des Festivals, the Festival de Cannes reinvents itself at nightfall and transforms the Macé Beach of the Croisette into an open-air cinema.
This cinephile and festive event with open access to the audience and festival-goers invites classics, cult or recent films, guests and many musical surprises, from Tuesday, May 14 to Saturday 25.
CINÉ-KARAOK...
The Festival de Cannes is sharing its numbers, to follow up on its commitments on gender equality after signing the 5050x2020 statement.
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The award will be bestowed to John Carpenter master of Fantasy and Horror, at the opening ceremony of Director's Fortnight
Former recipients
2018
Martin Scorsese CHECK THE VIDEO OF THE FULL MASTERCLASS HE GAVE
2017
Werner HERZOG
2016
Aki KAURISMAKI
2015
JIA ZHANGKE
2014
Alain RESNAIS
2013
Jane CAMPION
2012
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Revealed by the Festival in 1994 with his first fiction film, The Rice People, Cambodian director Rithy Panh will preside over this year’s Caméra d’Or Jury.
Accompanied by a jury of industry professionals, he will award the prize among one of the 22 first works presented by the Official Selection, the Directors’ Fortnight and the Semaine de la Critique.
"I&r...
The traditional masterclass (La leçon de cinema gives way to 4 Rendez Vous... More is better, right?During Cannes 2019, four Rendez-vous with artists will take place in the Buñuel Theater, replacing the former Cinema Lesson. Four masterclasses with directors, actresses and actors invited to talk about their work and their careers, during Rendez-vous open to all festival-goers.
In this year's program: Zhang Ziyi, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Winding Refn and A...
May 14th
19.30 CÉRÉMONIE D’OUVERTURE 30' OPENING CEREMONY
20.00 | 23.15 THE DEAD DON’T DIE DE/BY JIM JARMUSCH
May 15
09.00 | 13.30 THE DEAD DON’T DIE DE/BY JIM JARMUSCH 1H43
18.30 LES MISÉRABLES DE/BY LADJ LY 1H43
22.00 BACURAU DE/BY KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO 2H12 & JULIANO DORNELLES
May 16th
08.30 BACURAU DE/BY KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO 2H12 & JULIANO DORNELLES
12.00 LES MISÉRABLES DE/BY LADJ LY 1H43
16.00 ATLANTI...
Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache © Marie-Laure Billette & Ludovic Sarmento // Film poster © Carole Bethuel / Quad – Ten Cinéma
There are films screened on the last eve...
THE INSTITUT FRANÇAIS AT THE FESTIVAL DE CANNES
PROGRAMME
Pavilion no. 109, International village (by the Plage du Majestic) — Riviera
May 14th to 25th, 2019
THE UNKNOWN SAINT, by director Alaa Eddine Aljem and producer Francesca Duca (La Fabrique Cinéma 2016 / Critics’ Week 2019). © Le Moindre Geste / Altamar Films
The Pavilion and its emblematic programme, La Fabrique Cinema, showcase films from around the world — help...
Composed of 2 women and 3 men from various backgrounds, the short films and Cinéfondation Jury is unveiled.
Chaired by Claire Denis, the Jury will name the Short Film Palme d’or winner from among the 11 films selected in Competition. It will be awarded at the Closing Ceremony, on Sunday, May, 25th in the Grand Theatre Lumière.
The 5 members of the Jury will also be awarding prizes for three of the 17 student films shown as part of the Cinéfondation selection. ...
COMPETITION
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino (2 hrs 45)
“We were afraid the film would not be ready, as it wouldn’t be ready until late July, but Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes! Like for Inglourious Basterds, he’ll definitely be there – 25 years after the Palme d’or for Pulp Fiction – with a finished film screened in ...
The CICAE and the AFCAE will launch a new Art Cinema Award at the Cannes Film Festival in consultation with the Cannes Film festival. The award will be introduced starting from the next edition of the festival.
This new award will be given to a film from the Official Selection (Competition and Un Certain Regard section) chosen from approximately 40 titles.
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Chaired by Lebanese director and actress Nadine Labaki, the Jury of 3 women and 2 men will reveal its prizewinners on Friday, May 24 during the Un Certain Regard Closing Ceremony.
President
Nadine Labaki
Director & actress / Lebanon
Marina Foïs
Actress / France
Nurhan Sekerci-Porst
Producer / Germany
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This year’s prestigious competition, unveiled on April 18 and championed by the press, with films from high level filmmakers as well as male and female directors accessing it for the first time, will be appraised by the next Festival de Cannes’ Jury (from 14 to 25 May 2019), inviting this year, under the first ever presidence of a Latino-American filmmaker, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu : four women and four men, from four continents and from seven dif...
I am thrilled and looking forward to seeing the Doors by Oliver Stone on a big screen again. Than you Cannes Classics, thank you Thierry Fremaux...
I had had so much fun working on the french release for Sony Pictures. This, above, was our special poster designed for France. It was inspired the fantastic teaser trailer, I found the trailer so powerful that I asked Publicis, our ad agency, to work on a poster focused on the final scene where Jim is about to disolve in bright light: The c...
The 25 years of La Cité de la peur, a Midnight Screening of The Shining presented by Alfonso Cuarón, the 50 years of the mythical Easy Rider in the company of Peter Fonda, Luis Buñuel in the spotlight with three films, the attendance of Lina Wertmüller, the Grand Prix of 1951 Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan, a final salute to Milos Forman, the first Japanese animated film in color, the World C...
Discover the trailer of the 58th edition of La Semaine de la Critique: Charles Tesson, Artistic director, presents the selection of 15 short films and 11 first and second features from 18 countries that will be screened in Cannes between May 15th and 23rd.
COMPETITION
FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION
ABOU LEILA Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
CENIZA NEGRA (LAND OF ASHES) Sofía Quirós Ubeda
HVÍTUR, HVÍTUR DAGUR ...
The AFCAE (French Association of Art House Cinemas) and the CICAE (International Confederation of Art Cinemas) commends the announcement of the Cannes Film Festival made on 18th April relating to the Official Selection, for which every film taking part in the competition should have a release in movie theatres in France. It is a reminder of the artistic and cultural values of cinema.
As more filmmakers have pointed out, the movie theatre is the place where films should be showcased on the b...
Discover the list of feature films and short films selected at the 51st Directors’ Fortnight.
FEATURE FILMS
Alice et le Maire
(Alice and the Mayor)
Nicolas Pariser
(France)
World premiere
And Then We Danced
Levan Akin
(Suède · Sweden, Géorgie · Georgia, France)
World premiere
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The Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight), has selected The Orphanage (Parwareshgah), the second part of Shahrbanoo Sadat’s pentalogy, as one of the feature films it will be showing this year. Her first feature film, Wolf and Sheep, the first of a total of 5 films planned, screened at the sidebar in 2016 and was awarded with the main prize. The pentalogy is based on an unpublished autobiography by Shahrbanoo’s friend, Anwar Hashimi.
The Orp...
Following the announcement of the Official Selection of the 72nd Festival de Cannes, held on Thursday, April, 18th at 11am, discover the Short Films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2019.
Presided by Claire Denis, the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will award the 3 Prizes of the Cinéfondation on Thursday 23rd May. The Short Film Palme d'or will be awarded during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday 25th May.
The 2019 Short ...
