Exclusive Interviews with the Juries

Mahamat Saleh Haroun & Nansu Shi © AFP

Find all the interviews given by the members of the Feature Film Jury together with interviews with the Presidents of the Un Certain Regard, Cinéfondation and Short Film and Caméra d’Or Juries.

 

Robert de Niro, President of the Jury: “All actors grow in contact with their characters.
 

Martina Gusman: ““The cinema stimulates thought and feelings, it rouses your senses. The cinema allows you to say “Wake up, there IS a reality, and this is it!”.
 

Nansu Shi: “The cinema is both sense and art.”

 

Linn Ulmann: “The theatre goes dark and you know you are going to be transported somewhere.”

 

Olivier Assayas: “I have the impression that I’ve experienced Cannes in all its aspects.”


Jude Law: “Being able to relate a movie, to explain what it means as you see it, is a wonderful gift.”

Mahamat Saleh Haroun: “Cannes, just through my being here, sends a message of love to people who make movies in Africa and tells them they are not forgotten.”


Johnnie To: “In Hong-Kong, we don’t have so much money, but the cinema is very free.”

 

 

Emir Kusturica, President of the Un Certain Regard Jury: “The joy, the catharsis that you experience watching a good movie can light up your life.”
 

 

Michel Gondry, President of the Cinéfondation and Short Film Juries: “Sometimes you learn more from an unsuccessful movie, whether it’s a short film or a full-length feature.”

 

Bong Joon-Ho, President of the Caméra d’Or Jury: “I learnt to analyse and classify but intuitively, in my flesh and blood, it is my feeling for movies that speaks.”

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