The 77th Cannes Film Festival unveiled the Official Selection films, including Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, a biopic film on Donald Trump’s career as a real estate businessman in New York in the 1970s and 80s.
Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes)
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
Cannes Film Festival
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