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Directors’ Fortnight

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

Elene Naveriani  • Director of Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

Interview: Elene Naveriani • Director of Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

“I hope her character is empowering for others”

CANNES 2023: The Swiss-based director with Georgian origins speaks about their portrait of a mature woman that knows what she wants  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Claude Schmitz  • Director of The Other Laurens

Interview: Claude Schmitz • Director of The Other Laurens

"I wanted to make a film that was both a tribute and also critical and ironic"

CANNES 2023: The Belgian filmmaker talks about his meta and mischievous film noir that probes the end of patriarchy, and plays with gender codes and genres  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Rosine Mbakam  • Director of Mambar Pierrette

Interview: Rosine Mbakam • Director of Mambar Pierrette

"Documentary filmmaking has allowed me to understand the way I wanted to make fiction films"

CANNES 2023: The Belgium-based Cameroonian filmmaker talks about her film showing the daily life of a worker and mother who takes hold of her destiny  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors' Fortnight

Review: Légua

Review: Légua

CANNES 2023: Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra alight on three generations of women who make up the servant class of a large estate, in a tale with the uncanny aura of a ghost story  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Grace

Review: Grace

CANNES 2023: Ilya Povolotsky’s film is a soporific coming-of-age drama, and an escapist piece whose presence on the Croisette is out of place and comes at totally the wrong time  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Faouzi Bensaïdi  • Director of Deserts

Interview: Faouzi Bensaïdi • Director of Deserts

“This is a film against close-ups”

CANNES 2023: Wide open spaces are the clear protagonists in the Moroccan director's buddy movie-turned-love story  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Other Laurens

Review: The Other Laurens

CANNES 2023: Claude Schmitz uses the armaments of film noir to put pay to the testosterone-fuelled heroes of his youth and to revisit the genre, as well as gender itself  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Bertrand Mandico  • Director of She Is Conann

Interview: Bertrand Mandico • Director of She Is Conann

"I wanted to tell a demonic story, a story of barbarity with a female twist"

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker explains his total revisitation of the legend of Conan the Barbarian and his desire for a heroic fantasy film which veers off course and takes us to another world  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Mambar Pierrette

Review: Mambar Pierrette

CANNES 2023: Rosine Mbakam paints the kaleidoscopic portrait of a seamstress who takes her destiny in hand through her enterprise and whose workshop opens a window onto a whole community  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

Review: Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

CANNES 2023: Elene Naveriani’s third feature follows a 48-year-old single woman who falls in love for what seems like the first time  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

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