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Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes)

NAME OF FESTIVAL: Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes)

SINCE: 1946

WHERE: Cannes, France, Europe

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The international Festival de Cannes is one of the world's most widely publicized events and certainly the most important film festival in terms of worldwide impact. "In order to achieve this level of longevity, the Festival de Cannes has remained faithful to its founding purpose: to draw attention to and raise the profile of films, with the aim of contributing towards the development of cinema, boosting the film industry worldwide and celebrating cinema at an international level. And to this day, this profession of faith constitutes the first article of the Festival regulations.
" -Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate

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Actress Isabella Rossellini to Preside over Un Certain Regard Jury at 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Italian-American actress and director Isabella Rossellini will preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury, the Official Selection of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The lineup of the twenty films comprising the Official Selection along with the films In Competition, will be announced on April 16th. The daughter of Italian director Roberto Rossellini and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, to whom this year’s Festival de Cannes is to pay tribute, Isabella began her cinematic career alongside her father as a […]

Cannes Film Festival Pays Tribute to Ingrid Bergman with 2015 Official Poster

The 68th Festival de Cannes taking place May 13 to 24, 2015, has chosen to pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman with this year’s poster. This year’s poster captures the actress, who worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Roberto Rossellini and Ingmar Bergman, and starred opposite Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck, in all her beauty, her face lit up by a calm serenity that seems to herald a promising future. Liberty, audacity, modernity – values also shared by the Festival, […]

Joel & Ethan Coen to Preside Over Cannes Film Festival Jury

Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen will preside over the jury of the 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Cannes Film Festival 2014 Awards, WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan Wins Palme d’or Award

WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Jury of the 67th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Jane Campion awarded WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan the winner of the Palme d’or award.The award was presented to director Nuri Bilge Ceylan by actress Uma Thurman and director Quentin Tarantino.

In WINTER SLEEP, Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce.In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities…

More Films Added to 2014 Cannes Film Festival

White God by Kornél Mundruczó

Six more films have been added to the Official Selections of 2014 Cannes Film Festival taking place May 14th to May May 25th. Films include In The Name of my Daughter will screen in Out of Competition, and White God by Kornél Mundruczó will screen in Un Certain Regard section.

Jury Revealed for 67th Cannes Film Festival

New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter Jane Campion, winner of the Palme d’or for The Piano, will be the President of the Jury of the 67th Cannes Film Festival. In addition to Campion, the Jury will also include five women and four men. Their task will be to decide between the 18 films in Competition in order to select the winners – to be announced on stage at the ceremony on Saturday 24th May. The winner of the Palme d’or will be screened during the Festival’s closing evening on Sunday 25th of May, in the presence of the Jury and the entire team of the winning film.

Nicole Garcia is Jury President for Caméra d’or Award at 2014 Cannes Film Festival

Actress, director and screenwriter Nicole Garcia will preside over the Jury for this year’s Caméra d’or award for the best debut film at 2014 Cannes Film Festival. In this opportunity to champion an up-and-coming director she joins the ranks of previous Jury Presidents Bong Joon-Ho, Gael García Bernal, Carlos Diegues and Agnès Varda, who have all in the past contributed their experience and passion for cinema to the deliberations.

Films by Ryan Gosling, Tommy Lee Jones, Mike Leigh Among the Official Selections Announced for 2014 Cannes Film Festival

The Salvation

Cannes Film Festival held a press conference earlier today during which the 2014 Official Selection were announced. In addition to opening night film GRACE DE MONACO which was earlier announced, the lineup includes films from David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Tommy Lee Jones, Ken Loach and Ryan Gosling debut as a director.

Also included among the lineup is Kristian Levring’s “The Salvation” described as a large-scale western drama rooted in Scandinavia. The story takes place in America in the 1870s. When settler John kills his family’s murderer, he unleashes the fury of the notorious gang leader Delarue. Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, the peaceful pioneer must turn vengeful hunter, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town’s black heart. Mads Mikkelsen plays the Danish settler John, and the international cast also includes Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mikael Persbrandt and Jonathan Pryce.

Cannes Film Festival Unveils Films Selected for Short Films Competition and Cinéfondation Selection in 2014 Fest

Abbas Kiarostami

The Official Selection of films in the Short Films in Competition and in the Cinéfondation Selection competition sections of the 67th Cannes Film Festival was unveiled earlier today. This year, the Selection Committee received 3,450 short films, representing 128 production countries. Nine films will compete in 2014 for the Short Film Palme d’or. In a last minute minor controversy, the Italian film A PASSO D’UOMO by Giovanni ALOI was removed from the Short Films Competition because he was proven to break the rules and regulation of this Selection. The Cinéfondation Selection selected 16 films (14 fiction films and 2 animation films) among the 1,631 submitted this year by film schools from all around the world. The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, will be presided over by Abbas Kiarostami, who will nominate the prize-winners for the Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection.

Official Poster Unveiled for the 67th Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster for the upcoming festival taking place May 14 to 25, 2014. The poster design for the 67th Cannes Film Festival is based on a image taken from Federico Fellini’s 8½, which was presented in the Official Selection in 1963.

PARTY GIRL to Open Official Selection of Un Certain Regard of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival

PARTY GIRL

PARTY GIRL, the first film written and directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, has been chosen to open the Official Selection of Un Certain Regard of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

Party Girl shows the life of Angélique, a 60 year-old night club hostess who still loves men and enjoys partying, but now as the senior member on staff, feels she has reached the end of the line. On an impulse, she agrees to marry her regular client, Michel. The film is a portrait of a free woman who has chosen to live on the margins of conventional society, and delves deep into a France that is often underrepresented. With total realism, the lead role is played by the real-life Angélique.

Argentinean Filmmaker Pablo Trapero is President of the Jury for Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard 2014

Pablo Trapero

Pablo Trapero, Argentinean scriptwriter, producer and director, will preside over the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Official Selection of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He stated: “I am very proud to serve as President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard. Proud to take part in another way in the adventure in Cannes. Un Certain Regard, where I have presented three of my films, is always a very exciting selection. It brings us grand masters, promising young talent, new countries and new forms of cinema.”

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