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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 ...

IMPACT AT CANNES MARCHÉ DU FILM 2024 ADDRESSES THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY, WOMEN’S RIGHTS & MENTAL HEALTH ACTION   The forthcoming Cannes Marché du Film impACT programme 2024 led by Think-Film Impact Production will highlight innovation, creativity and action in an action-focused day centred on the socially pressing topics of democracy, wo...

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...

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...

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...

  To finish up the afternoon full of Industry Executives we are happy to announce our Final Fireside Chat!   ...

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  The new initiative aims to foster the international circulation of European IPs for new film adaptations.   For its first edition, 11 IP (Intellectual Proprety) titles from France, Spain and Italy, were selected and will be presented in Cannes thanks to our partners CNC (the French National Center of Cinema and Moving Images), ICAA (Institute of Cinematography & Audiovisual Arts) and the Directorate General for Cinema &am...

With ITFS 2024, a week full of animation comes to an end on Sunday  Packed cinemas, enthusiastic audiences, and a positive summary The 31st Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) came to a successful close in the evening with the grand awards ceremony. For six days, the animation industry gathered in Stuttgart, and the festival delighted filmmakers, industry visitors, and animation fans from around the world. This year's ITFS featured numerous innovations, including ...

The 19th edition of the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (HÕFF) crowns Wander to Wonder (dir. Nina Grantz)  as the Méliés Short Film Competition winner and Sander Maran's Chainsaws were Singing as the best Estonian genre film.   The Silver Méliés of the biggest genre festival in Baltics went to Wander to Wonder by Nina Grantz. The jury said: "We award the Méliés d’argent to thi...

On Thursday 2 May the legendary Chinese director received the Golden Mulberry and hosted a masterclass.   The last two days are packed with unmissable titles: from cult Philippine comedy Becky and Badette to the world premiere of high-octane Hong Kong actioner Customs Frontline!       A whole year of preparation for nine days of programming: nine joyful, intense days which, once the countdown starts, slip away at the speed of light... Yes, it's already time to a...

The 16 films competing for this year's Doc Alliance Award are out! 8 feature-length and 8 short films are chosen by the 8 film festivals, from the Doc Alliance as well as this year’s guest festival. The Doc Alliance Award is endowed with 5,000 EUR (Best Feature) and 3,000 EUR (Best Short). The winners will be presented at the award ceremony of this year’s guest festival Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Kyiv (31 May - 9 June 2024). The Doc Alli...

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  Lead actress June Squibb to be honored with the 2024 Golden Space Needle Award  for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema   The 50th Seattle International Film Festival will open with Josh Margolin’s action comedy Thelma from Magnolia Pictures and honor lead June Squibb with the 2024 Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema. The Festival’s Opening Night Film & Party will take place Thursday, May 9 at The Paramount Theatre followed by a ...