Cannes Film Festival

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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Cannes Film Festival

HANDS OF STONE Starring Robert De Niro Added to Cannes Film Festival

Robert De Niro will attend the upcoming 2016 Cannes Film Festival for the screening in Official Selection of his latest film Hands of Stone by Venezuelan director Jonathan Jakubowicz.

Official Poster of 2016 Cannes Film Festival

The official poster is released for the 69th Festival de Cannes, taking place from May 11 to 22, 2016, and presided over by Australian director George Miller.

See Poster, and Watch Trailer for Amy Whinehouse Documentary AMY

The poster and trailer are released for the Amy Winehouse documentary, AMY, which world premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and is scheduled to open in New York & Los Angeles on July 3, 2015 followed by nationwide on July 10, 2015. From BAFTA award-winning director Asif Kapadia (SENNA), AMY tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse – in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving […]

The Orchard to Release Joachim Trier’s drama Louder Than Bombs from 2015 Cannes

Joachim Trier’s drama Louder Than Bombs, an official selection of this year’s, 2015 Cannes Film Festival, is set for release in the U.S. via The Orchard. Louder Than Bombs is Trier’s follow-up to Reprise and Oslo, and August 31st. The film stars Golden Globe winner Gabriel Byrne (Miller’s Crossing, The Usual Suspects), Academy Award® nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), and Isabelle Huppert (two-time Best Actress Cannes winner: in 1978 for Violette and 2001 for The Piano Teacher). The ensemble cast is rounded […]

Cannes Award Winning Film THE MEASURE OF A MAN to BE Released in the U.S.

Kino Lorber will release in the U.S. and Canada, Stephane Brizé’s (Mademoiselle Chambon) THE MEASURE OF A MAN, starring Vincent Lindon (Mademoiselle Chambon, Bastards, Friday Night, La Moustache), winner of the Best Actor award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film was directed by Mr. Brizé and co-written by Brizé and Olivier Gorce. This is Stephane Brizé’s sixth feature film. The film, stars Vincent Lindon as a working-class man struggling with unemployment and then, facing a […]

#DopeMovie Starring Zoë Kravitz, Rapper A$AP Rocky at 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Front row (left to right): Actors Chanel Iman, Shameik Moore / Second row (left to right): Executive Producer Pharrell Williams, Actors Zoë Kravitz, Quincy Brown, Amin Joseph, Director Rick Famuyiwa, Actors A$AP Rocky, Tony Revolori and Kiersey Clemons celebrate Open Road Films’ DOPE in Cannes. DOPE was the closing night film of the Directors’ Fortnight, screening on the evening of May 22nd. DOPE will be released in the United States on June 19, 2015. #DopeMovie. Executive Producer Pharrell Williams and actress Zoë Kravitz […]

2015 Cannes Film Festival Awards, DHEEPAN by Jacques Audiard Wins Palme d’or

The Jury of the 68th Cannes Film Festival, presided by Joel and Ethan Coen picked DHEEPAN by Jacques Audiard (pictured above) the winner of Palme d’or award. In the film, “to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family. They end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. They barely know one another, but try to build a life together.” After receiving the prize, presented by […]

French actress Sabine Azéma to Preside Over Caméra d’or Jury at 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Following in the footsteps of Bong Joon-Ho, Gael García Bernal, Carlos Diegues and Nicole Garcia, French actress Sabine Azéma will preside over the Caméra d’or Jury at this year’s 2015 Cannes Film Festival. She will be accompanied by the director Delphine Gleize, the actor Melvil Poupaud, Claude Garnier representing the AFC (French Association for Cinematographers), Didier Huck, representing the FICAM (Federation of Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia Industries), Yann Gonzalez, representing the SRF (Society of Film […]

ICE AND THE SKY by Luc Jacquet is Closing Night Film of 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Luc Jacquet, director of the Oscar-winning March of the Penguins, will present his fourth feature film, Ice and the Sky, as Closing Film of the 68th Cannes Film Festival, Sunday, May 24 in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals. In this documentary Luc Jacquet discusses the scientific discoveries of Claude Lorius who left in 1957 to study the Antarctic ice. In 1965 he was the first to be concerned by global warming and […]

Coen Brothers, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sienna Miller Among Jury for 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, will be the two Presidents of the Jury of the 68th Cannes Film Festival. They will be joined by Rossy de Palma (Actress – Spain), Sophie Marceau (Actress, Director – France), Sienna Miller (pictured above) (Actress – United Kingdom), Rokia Traoré (Composer, Singer-songwriter – Mali), Guillermo del Toro (Director, Writer, Producer – Mexico), Xavier Dolan (Director, Writer, Producer, Actor – Canada), and Jake Gyllenhaal (Actor – United States). Their task will be to decide among the […]

“La Tête haute” to Open 2015 Cannes Film Festival

La Tête haute, a film by French female director, Emmanuelle Bercot, will open the 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday May 13, 2015. La Tête haute tells the story of Malony, and his upbringing from six to eighteen years, as a children’s judge and social worker try to save him. It was filmed in the Nord-Pas de Calais, Rhône-Alpes and Paris area regions, with the participation of Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel, Sara […]

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 […]

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