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390 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 18/04/2024.

Julien Rejl • General delegate, Directors’ Fortnight

Interview: Julien Rejl • General delegate, Directors’ Fortnight

“We will go from surprise to surprise, from unexpected to unexpected”

The general delegate of the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes discusses the 2024 selection and sheds light on the debate regarding its editorial line  

18/04 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sets its sights on singularity

Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sets its sights on singularity

21 feature films, including two animations and two documentaries, grace the agenda of a selection full of surprises, and dominated by Patricia Mazuy, Jonas Trueba and Thierry de Peretti  

16/04 | Cannes 2024 | Directors' Fortnight

Cannes’ Carrosse d’Or goes to Andrea Arnold

Cannes’ Carrosse d’Or goes to Andrea Arnold

The British filmmaker will be in Cannes on 15 May to pick up the prize handed out each year by the French Directors’ Association (SRF)  

09/04 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Elena Martín Gimeno • Director of Creatura

Interview: Elena Martín Gimeno • Director of Creatura

“Sexuality is a vital impulse”

CANNES 2023: The winner of the Europa Cinemas Label at the festival discusses her second film, which she also stars in and which lifts the lid on the consequences of sexual repression  

02/06/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Michel Gondry • Director of The Book of Solutions

Interview: Michel Gondry • Director of The Book of Solutions

“Once I have an idea in my mind, I need to execute it”

CANNES 2023: The French director unpicks his auto-fictional dramedy about a filmmaker who drives everyone around him crazy  

31/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Kanu Behl • Director of Agra

Interview: Kanu Behl • Director of Agra

“It was important to use the body and the act of sex as a vessel to lay bare some larger truths about the human condition”

CANNES 2023: The Indian director presents a family drama and an unusual love story in a film that homes in on sexuality and sexual repression  

30/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Creatura scoops the Europa Cinemas Label in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

Creatura scoops the Europa Cinemas Label in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

CANNES 2023: The film by Spaniard Elena Martín Gimeno has been crowned as the best European film, while A Prince by Pierre Creton went home with the SACD Award  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight/Awards

Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra  • Directors of Légua

Interview: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra • Directors of Légua

"We worked on the film through the idea of cycle: the cycle of seasons, the cycle of life, the cycle of nature..."

CANNES 2023: The Portuguese directing duo discuss the concept, the making and the social background of their new film, centred on a woman working in a sumptuous countryside estate  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Review: Agra

Review: Agra

CANNES 2023: Indian filmmaker Kanu Behl delves into the nightmarish chaos of an Indian family to address the consequences of frustration  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Review: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

CANNES 2023: Vietnamese director Thien An Pham makes a confident, imposing debut with this study of a disaffected young man and the nephew suddenly put in his charge  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

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