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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. 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...
After the Masterclass with Clint Eastwood, yesterday it was the turn of the Mexican director, Alfonso Cuarón, winner of seven Oscars for Gravity, to talk about his experiences as a filmmaker with the French critic, Michel Ciment. &nb...
Coppola Press Conference for The Beguiled, which was not very beguiling -- in fact it sucked. Glossy high budget scraggly story about a wounded soldier taken in by a house fill of femmes, with solid gold cast (Kidman, Farrel, Durst and Fanning) which helps viewers overlook some of the contrivances of the script as the pic falls apart in the second part and becomes an unintentional black comedy instead of the romantic drama it started out as. Set in a handsome southern ...
> 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...
Premier Los Angeles-based film company Recreation Media has come on board to sell two family adventure animated feature films, Two Tails and Princess in Wonderland. Both films, currently in production, are produced by Licensing Brands, one of the largest animation studio in Eastern Europe and Russia. Recreation is handling worldwide rights excluding CIS and Baltics to the mid-range budget films. The company sealed deals for multiple territories at the Canne...
Still smiling but busy discovering the largest festival in the World, with our experienced staff of Cannes veterans! Jaleel Chandler Manette Asta Elaine DeHart ...
With Yvette Marichal Film Commissioner Dominican Republic. I like Rum, when my lens cap fell in my glass...i had to... ...
Lise Romanoff CEO Vision Films with Adam Wright EVP Sales and Acquisitions with Ruediger w. KUEMMERLE produccer of Ultimate A terrace with a superb view on the Red Carpet. ...
Toasting at the Closing partywith my logo and my partners at Winston Baker Amy Baker, Katherin Winston and Dennis Dembia (Rogers & Cowan) ...
Out of Competition Films do not get nearly the same amount of attention as other films in The Festival. Bulhandang (The Merciless) by Byun Sung-Hyun shows that this, perhaps, should not always be the case. Greeted by a thin red carpet turnout, the four main actors were greated with a thunderous applause in the Grand Théâtre Lumière. The audience appeared to be extremely excited about the film as an applause broke out with every production company that appeared on scre...
With every year comes a new Cannes Film Festival and with every Cannes Film Festival comes the prestigious amfAR Gala! The annual amfAR Gala is always a star-studded event and this years gala did not disappoint. With celebs such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Will Smith, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Chastain, Eva Longoria, and Nicole Kidman it was truly a night to remember. With all the glitz and glamour of the event it's far too easy to lose sight of why everyone gathers together for s...
Lloyd Kaufman Presents: The Tromariffic Cannes Troma Party! With Special Performance by Mystery! La Petite Majestic 17:00 (9:00pm), May 22nd (6 Rue Tony Allard, Cannes, France 06400) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, N.Y., May 21, 2017- Greetings from Tromaville! On May 22nd, The Troma Team will throw its infamous Tromariffic Cannes Troma Party with a very sp...
The bets are open! On Sunday, May 28, one film will win the Palme d'or at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Two days before the end of the event, the predictions are buzzing around as everyone tries to guess who will win this supreme award of world cinema. 5Chopard revealed that this year's edition was unique with diamonds and a market value of 25 000€ So far the predicted favorites are Happy End, Les Proies, L'Amant Double, and 120 Beats Per Minute. ...
D'après Une Histoire Vraie - 7:00pm, 1h50 - Grand Théâtre Lumière Delphine (Emmanuelle Seigner) is a writer who reaches success after publishing a novel dedicated to her mother. She soon starts to receive annonoymous letters accusing her of exposing her family to the public. She suffers from writers block and depression when she meets an interesting and seductive woman (Eva Green) who understands her better than anyone. Directed by Roman Polanski. ...
Last night was the red carpet showing of Aus Dem Nichts or In The Fade, by it's english title. The film was directed by Faith Akin and starred Diane Kruger as a woman who had just lost her son and husband in a vicious bomb attack set by unknown enemies. Throughout the film, Katja (Kruger) is faced with judgement and scrutiny not only from the police, but also her loved ones, making her period of mourning all taht more difficult. Diane Kruger delivers such a powerful performance as the p...
L'amant Double - 7:00pm, 1h47 - Grand Théâtre Lumière Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with a psychoanalyst named Paul. She moves in with him after a few months and soon realizes that he is hiding apart of his identity. Directed by François Ozon, in competition for the Palme d'Or, Cannes Best Actress, Cannes Best Director, Cannes Best Actor, Cannes Best Screenplay, Cannes Jury Prize, Cannes Grand Prix. Aus Dem Nichts - 10:00pm, 1h59 - ...
The foundation for AIDS research holds an annual event in Antibes, France during the Cannes Film Festival. It's known as the AmfAR Gala and it may be one of the most prestigious parties and is held in one of the nicest hotels in the world. So, obviously, it's a big deal. Celebrities like Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Nicole Kidman, Nikki Minaj, Leonardo DiCaprio, and so many more that it would take up the whole article if I tried to list them. The main goal of this event is to r...
An Inspiring Panel took place May 25 at 2pm at The American Pavilion in Cannes on "
Responsibility of filmmakers in making movies that matter", with Dario Vigano, prefect at Secretariat of Commuincation in Vatican, Wim Wenders and Anne Facerias (Festival Sacré de la Beauté)
www.festivalsacredelabeaute.org moderated by Bruno Chatelin.
Dario Vigano brought us a message from the Pope. I have translated this paragraph for you.
"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 to mention confidence in today and tomorrow. "I would like," said Pope Francis, "to contribute to the search for an open and creative style of communication that is never willing to give evil a first role, but which seeks to highlight the possible solutions, inspiring An active and responsible approach to the people to whom the information is communicated. I would like to invite to offer to the men and women of our time stories marked by the logic of the "good news". This is what we (always) expect from good cinema." Pope Francis Read the full message
