
Sylvester Stallone, returns to Cannes as one of the latest additions to the 72nd Cannes Film Festival with a first look at Rambo V – Last Blood starring Stallone again as John Rambo.
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 (Festival de Cannes) started in 1946 and takes place in Cannes, France, Europe

Sylvester Stallone, returns to Cannes as one of the latest additions to the 72nd Cannes Film Festival with a first look at Rambo V – Last Blood starring Stallone again as John Rambo.

Cambodian director Rithy Panh who debuted his first fiction film, The Rice People, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 returns this year to preside over the Caméra d’Or Jury. Accompanied by a jury of industry professionals, he will award the prize among one of the 22 first works presented by the Official Selection, the Directors’ Fortnight and the Semaine de la Critique.

The World Premiere of Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s new film The Specials, starring Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb, in Official Selection 2019, will be the Last Screening of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. The Specials was submitted at the last minute to the selection committee.

Cannes Film Festival announced the Un Certain Regard jury chaired by Lebanese director and actress Nadine Labaki; and the short films and Cinéfondation jury chaired by Claire Denis, French director and screenwriter.

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino is finally ready to go, and will World Premiere in Competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Actress Cannes Elle Fanning along with directors Yorgos Lanthimos and Paweł Pawlikowski are among the eight distinguished film professionals selected for 2019 Cannes Film Festival Jury presided over by director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu. The jury of four women and four men, from four continents and from seven different nationalities will reveal the winners on Saturday, May 25 during the Closing Ceremony.

A Midnight Screening of The Shining presented by Alfonso Cuarón, the 50th Anniversary of Easy Rider with Peter Fonda in attendance, are among highlights of the lineup of Cannes Classics program at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Other highlights include the 25th anniversary screening of La Cité de la peur, Luis Buñuel in the spotlight with three films, the attendance of Lina Wertmüller, the Grand Prix of 1951 Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle in Milan, a final salute to Milos Forman, and the first Japanese animated film in color, the World Cinema Project.

Following in the footsteps of Jeanne Moreau, Woody Allen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Fonda, Clint Eastwood, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Manoel de Oliveira, Agnès Varda and Jean-Pierre Léaud, in 2019, the Cannes Film Festival will award Alain Delon the legendary actor who starred in Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Palme d’or, 1963) with an Honorary Palme d’or to pay tribute to his presence in the history of film.

Following yesterday’s announcement of the Official Selection, today the 72nd Cannes Film Festival revealed the Short Films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2019.

Cannes Film Festival has chosen filmmaker Agnès Varda as the inspirational guiding light of the 72nd edition of the Festival and the official poster. Agnès Varda, who passed away earlier this year, has attended the Festival to present her films 13 times in the Official Selection, and was given the Honorary Palme d’or in 2015.