In all aspects of work we prize speed. But perhaps our ancestors, with their abilitiy to wait, had a better sense of priorities than us today? Naomi Kawase

The director came to present his feature film The Conquest, selected Out of Competition. He was accompanied by actors Hippolyte Girardot, Samuel Labarthe, Bernard Lecoq, Denis Podalydès and...

The press conference for Pater, screened yesterday In Competition, brought together Michel Seydoux (producer), Vincent Lindon (actor and the Prime Minister) and Alain Cavalier (director and the...

Speech given by the President of the Festival on 17 May 2011 for the Palme d’Honneur awarded to Jean-Paul Belmondo in recognition of his career.   “If you don’t like the sea, if you...

Naomi Kawase presented her film in Competition, Hanezu No Tsuki,  at a press conference, accompanied by actress Hako Oshima and actors Tetsuya Akikawa and Tohta Komizu.   Naomi Kawase, on her...

The Danish film director Lars Von Trier, along with Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and the rest of the Melancholia team, responds to questions from journalists. Extracts.   Lars Von Trier...

The actors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Sarah ADLER, Tetsuya AKIKAWA, Elena ANAYA, Richard ANCONINA, Yvan ATTAL, Irene AZUELA, Antonio BANDERAS, Alice BARNOLE, Mikhail...

Last night the Festival de Cannes paid tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo by dedicating a special evening to him whereby he was awarded a Palme d’or. The screening of a documentary, a meal and a...

Selected for Cannes Classics, Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel retraces the life and career of the director and producer. The first feature film by the director Alex Stapleton, the...

Egypt will inaugurate a new initiative at the Festival de Cannes, which will be repeated each year in Around the Selection:  the guest country.  As the highlight of this tribute is the screening...

The young Romanian filmmaker Catalin Mitulescu, winner of the Palme d’Or for Short Film in 2004 for Trafic, is presenting his second film, Loverboy, in Un Certain Regard. It is the story of...

Three years after competing in the Caméra d’Or with The Chaser, NA Hong-jin, who has been taken on by Fox, has become one of the most brilliant representatives of young Korean cinema. He is...

The Cinéfondation invites the cream of the world’s film schools to Cannes. This year, sixteen directors from fourteen countries have been selected. The first four short films are being screened...

Presented in Cannes Classics in the framework of the tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo, Stavisky by Alain Resnais was in the running for the Palme d'Or in 1974.  Stavisky retraces the extraordinary...

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Joachim Trier's entire life has been recorded on film. At the age of four, the Norwegian director was given a Super 8 camera, and started making films with his father. Thirty-three years and three...

For her third In Competition entry  at the Festival de Cannes, the Japanese director presents Hanezu No Tsuki (Hanezu), an ode to nature, the pleasure of waiting and respecting ancestral...

Two years after Antichrist, the director of Dancer In The Dark, which won the Palme d’or in 2000, returns to Competition with Melancholia. This feature film with psychological undertones marks...

As part of the Festival's tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo, the Cinéma de la Plage is screening Le Magnifique (How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent/The One Magnificent) by...

Cannes Classics presents Children of Paradise* by Marcel Carné just as it was released in 1945. That’s 3’10’’ of film shown in the Salle du Soixantième. “We quickly realised that...

In La Conquête (The Conquest), Xavier Durringer has created an unprecedented feature film. The piece is being presented Out of Competition and examines the current French President, Nicolas...