The Festival de Cannes is now the world’s most prestigious film gathering, as well as its most widely publicised cultural event. Today a major forum for film-producing countries, its history, selections and prizes are usually thought to date back to 1946 – the year of the first festival proper. However, the first seeds of the event were actually sown eight years earlier.
Carried by its 76 editions, 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. Through the works, artists and themes it platforms on the world stage over the course of its 15-day line-up, the event is forever engaged in a process of self-renewal.
Cannes Festival
Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis
David Cronenberg, The Shrouds
Gilles Lellouche, L’amour Ouf (Beating Hearts)
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Andrea Arnold, Bird
Karim Aïnouz, Motel Destino
Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness
Magnus Von Horn, The Girl with the Needle
The Festival de Cannes is now the world’s most prestigious film gathering, as well as its most widely publicised cultural event. Today a major forum for film-producing countries, its history, selections and prizes are usually thought to date back to 1946 – the year of the first festival proper. However, the first seeds of the event were actually sown eight years earlier.
Carried by its 76 editions, 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. Through the works, artists and themes it platforms on the world stage over the course of its 15-day line-up, the event is forever engaged in a process of self-renewal.
Cannes Festival
Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis
David Cronenberg, The Shrouds
Gilles Lellouche, L’amour Ouf (Beating Hearts)
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Andrea Arnold, Bird
Karim Aïnouz, Motel Destino
Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness
Magnus Von Horn, The Girl with the Needle
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