We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros. We are not political combatants. We are directors.   Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, co-director with Jafar Panahi of This is Not a Film

Christophe Honoré is set to wrap up the 64th Festival de Cannes with Beloved (Out of Competition). The director has handpicked a cast of beloved actors for his eighth feature film, a musical...

The short films selected In Competition will be shown today at 11 am, Debussy Theatre and at 2 pm, Buñuel Theatre, nine shorts in all, directed by filmmakers from around the...

The Press Conference of This is not a film (In Film Nist) with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, co-director of the film and Jafar Panahi (who is forbidden from leaving Iran, and so was listening to the...

The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury (Julie Gayet, Jessica Hausner, Corneliu Porumboiu, João Pedro Rodrigues and President Michel Gondry) has awarded the Cinéfondation Prizes during a...

This year, the Young Actors Office of the Festival launches the Portrait Gallery. The aim is to create a dynamic between actors and directors by bringing them into contact in a simple and...

Nicolas Winding Refn presented Drive with the film's lead actor Ryan Gosling. Alongside them were producers Marc E. Platt and Adam Siegel, editor Mat Newman and screenwriter Hossein...

The actors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Sarah ADLER, Anouk AIMEE, Tetsuya AKIKAWA, Elena ANAYA, Yvan ATTAL, Irene AZUELA, Edouard BAER, Antonio BANDERAS, Alice BARNOLE,...

The Italian director Paolo Sorrentino came to present This Must Be The Place, his latest film selected In Competition, accompanied by the actor Sean Penn, who plays Cheyenne, the film's principal...

The Salle du Soixantième witnessed a moment of high emotion at the 64th Festival. Yesterday, Thierry Frémaux paid tribute to the late director  Stanley Kubrick in the presence...

Malcom Mcdowell, the star of A Clockwork Orange, the 1971 movie by Stanley Kubrick, to whom the Festival has paid tribute during this 64th edition with a restored print of the movie and a...

After Egypt, the invited country at the Festival, Cannes pays tribute to Tunisia with the screening of La Khaoufa Baada Al'Yaoum (No More Fear) in Special Screening. With this documentary, Mourad...

After Bernardo Bertolucci (Il Conformista/The Conformist) and Roberto Rossellini (La Macchina Ammazzacattivi/ The Machine to Kill Bad People), Elio Petri is the third Italian director to be...

In Film Nist (This is Not a Film) by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb is both a logbook and an act of resistance, and is being shown as a Special Screening. It arrived discreetly at the...

Corneliu Porumboiu, the Romanian director and screenwriter has won a number of prizes at Cannes: he won the Cinéfondation second prize in 2004 for his short film Calatorie la Oras (A Trip to the...

The Cinéfondation selection comes to an end today with the screening of the last four short films. The Jury led by Michel Gondry will present the Cinéfondation awards at 4:30 pm....

For those with press badges, the Wifi café is open on level 3, as is the press room on level F+1. For those with Marché badges, internet stations are available in the exhibition zones. Finally,...

João Pedro Rodrigues has been distinguished in several festivals. He started his international career with his second short film, Parabens!, which won a prize at the Venice Mostra, and presented...

The Festival de Cannes is pleased to present Bakur Bakuradze's second feature, Okhotnik (The Hunter) at Un Certain Regard. The Georgian director deals with similar themes to those of his first...

The Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has come to present Drive in Competition, his first American film, adapted from the novel of the same name by James Sallis. This action film has a ...

For his 4th selection in Competition, the Italian director presents This Must Be The Place, his first feature film in English. A road movie conceived in 2008 following the Jury Prize awarded at...