Exactly 40 years after her first appearance at the festival, Juliette Binoche has been named President of the Feature Film Jury of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, which will award the Palme d’or.
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Juliette Binoche Named President of the Jury of 78th Cannes Film Festival
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77th Cannes Film Festival Winners – Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ Wins Palme d’or
© Joachim Tournebize / Festival Anora directed by Sean Baker won the Palme d’or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The jury led by Greta Gerwig selected the comedy drama film of Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, who gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
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Judith Godrèche’s ‘Me Too’ Short Film Added to Official Selection of 77th Cannes Film Festival
Moi aussi (Me too) (Photo credit © Maneki Films) Moi aussi (Me too), French actress, director, screenwriter and producer Judith Godrèche’s new short film, which highlights the stories of victims of sexual violence, will be included in the Official Selection of 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and will screen at the Un Certain Regard opening ceremony.
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Meryl Streep to Receive Honorary Palme d’or at Cannes Film Festival
Meryl Streep © Brigitte Lacombe 35 years after winning the Best Actress award for Evil Angels, Meryl Streep returns as the guest of honor at the opening ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where she will receive the Festival’s Honorary Palme d’or.
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Greta Gerwig, Lily Gladstone, Omar Sy Among Cannes Film Festival Jury
Greta Gerwig © Ben Rayner / Ebru Ceylan © Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Lily Gladstone © Lindsay Siu / Eva Green © Xavier Torres-Bacchetta / Nadine Labaki © Jihad Hojeili / Juan Antonio Bayona © Germán Romani / Pierfrancesco Favino © Pablo Arroyo / Kore-eda Hirokazu © Mikiya Takimoto / Omar Sy © Selly SY (courtesy Cannes Film Festival) Chaired by Greta Gerwig, the Jury for the 77th Cannes Film Festival will include Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green and Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, as well as Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu, and French actor and producer Omar Sy.
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Cannes Classics 2024 Unveils Film Lineup with Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Henson
Jim Henson Idea Man (Disney+) Featuring celebrations, restored prints and documentaries, the Cannes Classics selection of the 77th Cannes Film Festival will be marked by the presence of great artists including Faye Dunaway, Wim Wenders, Sylvia Chang, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Marco Bellocchio, Ron Howard, Frederick Wiseman, Dong-ho Kim, Montxo Armendáriz and more.
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Cannes Film Festival Reveals 8 Projects in Inaugural Immersive Competition
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero by Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke (JAPC) Cannes Film Festival revealed the eight projects presented in the new Immersive Competition including collective location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, and projection mapping and holographic works. These carefully selected immersive works showcase the cutting edge of this new era in storytelling, challenging convention, embracing new technologies, and above all celebrating new artists as well as old.
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Belgian Actress Lubna Azabal Heads Jury of Cannes Film Festival’s Shorts and La Cinef Competition
© Lubna Azabal © Dominique Charriau/Getty Images / Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar @ Guy Ferrandis / Paolo Moretti © Angèle Marignac-Serra ECAL / Claudine Nougaret © Raymond Depardon / Vladimir Perišić © Philippe Lebruman 11 short films from 10 countries and for its 27th edition La Cinef will present 14 live-action and 4 animated short films in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
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New Films by Oliver Stone, Michel Hazanavicius, Rúnar Rúnarsson Added to Cannes Film Festival
(© Shochiku Co., Ltd. – Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991) / Graphic creation © Hartland Villa) The 77th Cannes Film Festival unveiled the Official Poster featuring a scene from the film Rhapsody in August, directed by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, 81 at the time.
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Restoration of Napoléon by Abel Gance to Open Cannes Classics at Cannes Film Festival
Napoléon by Abel Gance © La Cinémathèque française After taking more than sixteen years to bring Abel Gance’s masterwork back to life, the restored Napoléon (1st period) will be unveiled on May 14 as a world premiere as the opening film of Cannes Classics at the 77th Festival de Cannes
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Studio Ghibli to Receive Honorary Palme d’or at Cannes Film Festival
© Hayao Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli Cannes Film Festival will bestow its most prestigious honor, the honorary Palme d’or, on Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio created by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. This is the first time the award traditionally given to a cinema legend, will be given to a group.
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77th Cannes Film Festival Unveils Official Selection – The Apprentice, Megalopolis, The Shroud
The Apprentice (APPRENTICE PRODUCTIONS ONTARIO INC. / PROFILE PRODUCTIONS 2 APS / TAILORED FILMS LTD. 2023) The 77th Cannes Film Festival set to take place May 14-25, 2024, unveiled the Official Selection films in Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and Special Screenings.