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Rendez-vous avec… Sir Peter Jackson
The Festival de Cannes will expand the Official Selection screenings with exchanges featuring leading figures in contemporary cinema.
The « Rendez-vous with… » are meetings between the artists and the public of the Festival. They make it possible to savvy the vision and thoughts of major artists of our time from all over the world. They offer rare moments of sharing, cinema-loving, transmission and emotion.
This year, the series will kick off with Sir Peter Jackson, the day after he is awarded his Honorary Palme d’Or.
In Cannes on 13th May 2001, the first revealed images of The Lord of the Rings launched the global success of the Middle Earth saga. Sir Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema embark on a path of glory and international recognition, from critics and audiences alike, gaining 17 Oscars and 3 billion dollars at the box office. Twenty-five years later, the Festival de Cannes honours a filmmaker who elevated heroic fantasy and transformed Hollywood.
His trilogy, shot in New Zealand, revolutionised visual effects and the cinematic imaginary, firmly anchoring Tolkien in pop culture. Sir Peter Jackson has pursued a consistently stimulating career from major productions: King Kong, The Hobbit, to ambitious documentaries: They Shall Not Grow Old and recently, The Beatles: Get Back.
During his time at the Festival de Cannes 2026, where he will be awarded a Palme d’or d’honneur, he has agreed to take part in a public discussion.
