The Daily 2011

Un Certain Regard 2011 presented 21 films directed by 22 directors hailing from 19 different countries. 2 of the works were first films. Presided over by Emir KUSTURICA (Director, actor and musician - Serbia), the Jury was comprised of: Elodie BOUCHEZ (Actress - France), Peter BRADSHAW (Critic-The Guardian - United Kingdom),...

Christophe Honoré presented Les Bien-Aimés, (The Beloved), his Out of Competition film that will close the 64th Festival de Cannes. He was accompanied by the actors, Rasha Bukvic, Louis Garrel and Paul Schneider, the comedians, Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni and Ludivine Sagnier, and the composer, Alex...

Each year,  l’Atelier de la Cinéfondation selects fifteen projects for feature films from around the world, to put them into contact with potential partners: coproducers, distributors or international sales agents. Here are comments from the directors and producers of three of them.  For Denise Gamze Ergüven, a young Turkish...

The actors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Anouk AIMEE, Tetsuya AKIKAWA, Elena ANAYA, Irene AZUELA, Edouard BAER, Antonio BANDERAS, Alice BARNOLE, Mikhail BARSKOVICH, Claude BAZ.MOUSSAWBAA, Berenice BEJO, Leïla BEKHTI, Marisa BERENSON, Taner BIRSEL, Elodie BOUCHEZ, Patrick BRAOUDE, Robert CHARLEBOIS, Han CHIN, ...

The director Nuri Bilge Ceylan came to talk about his film Bir zamanlar anadolu’da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia). He was accompanied by the producer, Zeynep Ozbatur Ataka, the actors, Yilmaz Erdögan, Taner Birsel, Muhammet Uzuner, Taner Birsel and Ercan Kesal (who also worked on the script), the scriptwriter, Ebru Ceylan, and the...

The great crisis of humanity is the crisis of love. I see humanity as paralysed by fear and a lack of trust: people are turning in on themselves, harbouring self-love, and have lost interest in what others are feeling. Radu Mihaileanu, director of The Source.  

 Radu Mihaileanu gave a press conference for his film La Source des femmes (The Source). With him were actresses Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Biyouna, Sabrina Ouzani and Hiam Habbass, and actors Mohamed Majd and Saleh Bakri.Radu Mihaileanu’s film echoes the revolutions in the Arab world:These revolutions represent a huge step...

Every year, the Festival de Cannes organises 25 screenings for classes from schools in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region which are part of the ‘Lycéens et Apprentis au cinema’ programme. A number of students also have the chance to meet an industry professional. Thursday May 19. 11 a.m. A throng of fifty or so students...

Presented as the closing film of Un Certain Regard, Elena is Russian filmmaker Andreï Zviaguinstev’s third film. With his first two films, he has already succeeded in creating his own artistic world – stunning images, oppressive atmosphere and a dark view of things. Elena is the portrait of a woman confronted with the survival of...

In his thirty years of career, Radu Mihaileanu has won eighteen prizes. He is selected for the first time In Competition at Cannes with The Source an Oriental fable worthy of A Thousand and One Nights.  iEvery day, the village women climb up the mountain to collect water at the source with their yoke across their shoulder. It has been...

With the screening in Cannes Classics of The Crimson Curtain, Gilles Jacob wants to pay homage to the work of Alexandre Astruc. In 1948, the director became famous with an article published in L'Ecran Français: "The birth of a new avant-garde: The camera as pen", which had a big influence on the Nouvelle Vague. The Crimson Curtain...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is back at Cannes in Competition with Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia). The Turkish director, who was a member of the Feature Film Jury in 2009, has, as always, participated at all stages of the making of his new film.Director, screenwriter, editor and producer, Nuri Bilge Ceylan has once again...

All the movies in Competition will be rescreened in various theatres in the Palais des Festivals on Sunday 22 May 2011.   > Download the schedule!  

The English actor and producer Jude Law had already been in Cannes in 2007 to present the film by  Wong Kar Waï, My Blueberry Nights, which opened the 60th Festival de Cannes. This year, he is back as a member of the Feature Film Jury. He agrees to an interview with all the charm he is famous for. How did you feel when the...

The director of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004), Be Kind, Rewind (2007) and The Green Hornet (2011), an unconventional do-it-yourself enthusiast in the world of images world and an inveterate dabbler in directing projects (clips, ads etc.), is President of the Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury this year. A...