The revenge thriller It Was Just an Accident directed by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has won the Palme D’or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Cinéastes)
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Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Wins Palme D’or at Cannes Film Festival
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi Productions. Les Films Pelleas)
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Enzo and ‘Sorry, Baby’ Bookend 57th Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
Sorry, Baby by Eva Victor (A24) Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes), the independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival, has unveiled the lineup for the 57th edition taking place May 14-24, 2025.
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56th Directors’ Fortnight Unveils Lineup
Good One by India Donaldson (Courtesy of Sundance Institute) Directors’ Fortnight, the parallel section of Cannes Film Festival, announced the line-up of 21 feature films and 10 short films for the 56th edition taking place May 15 – 25, 2024.
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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2023 Announces Lineup, Opens with Cédric Kahn’s The Goldman Case
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Cinéastes), an independent selection running parallel to Cannes Film Festival, revealed the official selection of 20 feature and 10 short films for its 55th edition taking place May 17 to 26, 2023.
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French Drama SCARLET by Pietro Marcello to Open Directors’ Fortnight
Scarlet (L’envol) by Pietro Marcello The French drama film Scarlet (L’envol) by Pietro Marcello will have its world premiere as the opening night film of the 54th edition of Directors’ Fortnight on May 18, 2022. Scarlet stars Raphaël Thiery (Raphaël), Juliette Jouan (Juliette), Louis Garrel (Jean), and Noémie Lvovsky (Adeline).
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Cannes Film Festival Still Considering Options, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics Week Canceled
Cannes Film Festival is running out of options for a 2020 festival, following the French President’s statement on Monday banning any large festivals and events with large audiences before mid-July at the earliest.
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SICK, SICK, SICK by Brazilian Director Alice Furtado to World Premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes
Sick Sick Sick (Sem seu sangue) directed by Alice Furtado Sick Sick Sick (Sem seu sangue) by Brazilian director Alice Furtado will have its World Premiere at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) in Cannes. It is her feature debut as director.
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Shahrbanoo Sadat’s THE ORPHANAGE Selected for Directors’ Fortnight
The Orphanage (Parwareshgah), by Shahrbanoo Sadat The Orphanage (Parwareshgah), the second part of Shahrbanoo Sadat’s pentalogy, has been selected as one of the feature films at the 2019 Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs). Her first feature film, Wolf and Sheep, the first of a total of 5 films planned, screened at the sidebar in 2016 and was awarded with the main prize. The pentalogy is based on an unpublished autobiography by Shahrbanoo’s friend, Anwar Hashimi.
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Directors’ Fortnight 2019 Announces Lineup
The lineup of feature films and short films was revealed this morning for the 51st Directors’ Fortnight which takes place May 15 to 25, 2019, running alongside the Cannes Film Festival. Directors’ Fortnight 2019 will open with the World Premiere of Deerskin (Le Daim) directed by Quentin Dupieux, and close with the World Premiere of Yves directed by Benoît Forgeard.
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Jim Mickle’s COLD IN JULY Among Lineup for 2014 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight
COLD IN JULYJim Mickle’s COLD IN JULY still flying high from its critically acclaimed world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has been selected in the program lineup for Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight. This will be Jim’s second time in this selection after last year’s cannibal drama, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE. IFC Films will release COLD IN JULY day-and-date, theatrically and on VOD May 23rd.
“It’s unbelievably flattering and rewarding to be invited back to Fortnight. Ever since reading Joe Lansdale’s wonderfully twisted novel, I’ve wanted to make a film that felt like that book. COLD IN JULY has been in our lives for a very long time and many times felt like it may never make it to the big screen. To return to the Croisette to show this film to the world makes all of that time well worth the wait”, said filmmaker Jim Mickle.
In COLD IN JULY, while investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall) puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar, Freddy Russell (Wyatt Russell). Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben (Sam Shepard), rolls into town; hell-bent on revenge. However, not all is as it seems. Shortly after Dane kills the home intruder, his life begins to unravel into a dark underworld of corruption and violence. Twists and turns continue to pile up as the film reaches its inevitable destination: a gore-soaked dead end.
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Full lineup for Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight.:
Special Screenings
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tobe Hooper
Li’l Quinquin Bruno Dumont
Feature Competition
Halleluiah Fabrice Du Welz (Belgium/France)
Next to Her Asaf Korman (Israel)
Catch Me Daddy Daniel Wolfe (UK)
Cold in July Jim Mickle (USA)
Fighters Thomas Cailley (France)
Gett Le Proces de Viviane Amsalem Ronit and Shlomi El Kabetz (Israel, France, Germany)
Tale of Princess Kaguya Isao Takahata (Japan)
A Hard Day Seong-Hun Kim (South Korea)
Eat Your Bones Jean-Charles Hue (France)
National Gallery Frederick Wiseman (France/USA)
Pride Matthew Warchus (UK)
Queen and Country John Boorman (UK)
Refugiado Diego Lerman (Argentina, France, Germany)
These Final Hours Zach Hilditch (Australia)
Tu Dors Nicole Stephane Lafleur (Canada)
Whiplash Damien Chazelle (USA)
Short Films Category
8 Bullets Frank Ternier (France)
The Revolution Hunter Margarida Rego (Portugal)
Cambodia 2099 Davy Chou (France)
In August Jenna Hasse (Switzerland)
Fragments Aga Woszczynska (Poland)
Guy Moquet Demis Herenger (France)
Jutra Marie-Jose Saint-Pierre (Canada)
Man on the Chair Dahee Jeong (France/South Korea)
Heartless Nara Normande and Tiao Tiao (Brazil)
Torn Elmar Imanov and Engin Kundag (Azerbaijan)
It Can Pass Through the Wall Radu Jude (Romania)