Festival de Cannes

Nanni Moretti to preside over the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes

Nanni Moretti will be President of the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes to be held from May 16 to 27, 2012.Accepting the invitation, the Italian actor and director said: “This is a real ...

AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CINEMA AROUND THE WORLD

Join us on a journey through the greatest filmmaking countries. Our short articles summarize the history of cinema as seen through the eyes of specialists. Each text is brought to life by film ...

Exclusive Interviews with the Juries

Find all the interviews given by the members of the Feature Film Jury together with interviews with the Presidents of the Un Certain Regard, Cinéfondation and Short Film and Caméra d'Or ...

Award winners press conference

After the closing ceremony, the award winners took it in turns to hold a mini press conference. Here are some extracts: Maryna Vroda (Short Film Palme d’or for Cross): "When I got to ...

Robert De Niro: "There were some intense debates over a number of films"

The Feature Film Jury of this 64th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Robert De Niro and composed of Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Olivier Assayas, Martina Gusman, Linn Ullmann, Nansun Shi, ...

Award for Best Actor

The Prize for Best Actor was awarded to French actor Jean Dujardin for his role in The Artist by Michel Hazavanicius.The actor knelt before the Jury before being handed the prize by French actress ...

Best Director Award

The Prize for Best Director was awarded to Nicolas Winding Refn for his film Drive. After having received the award from the hands of French actress and director Nicole Garcia, Nicolas Winding ...

Palme d'or for Best Short Film

The Palme d'Or for Best Short Film has been awarded to Maryna Vroda for her film Cross. After receiving the Award from Michel Gondry, President of the Short Film Jury, and the actress, Ludivine ...

Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or was awarded to Terrence Malick for The Tree of Life. After receveing his prize from actress Jane Fonda, the producer of the film, Bill Pohlad, said : "I have always wanted to ...

Award for Best Screenplay

The Award for Best Screenplay went to Hearat Shulayim (Footnote) directed by Joseph Cedar, who is currently travelling from Tel Aviv to attend the ceremony. For further information on the ...

Caméra d'or

The Caméra d'or Prize was awarded to Argentine director Pablo Giorgelli for his film Las Acacias, selected in the Critic's Week. He received the prize from Korean film-maker Korean film-maker ...

Jury Prize

The Jury Prix was awarded to Polisse, by Maïwenn. After receiving her award from the hands of actress Chiara Mastroianni, the director said: "My daughter told me I would not be able to go up to ...

64th FESTIVAL DE CANNES AWARDS

The official Jury of this 64th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Robert De Niro, revealed this evening the prize winners during the Closing Ceremony. Mélanie Laurent hosted Jane Fonda on the ...

Grand Prix

This year's Grand Prix went to two directors: Nuri Bilge Ceylan forOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for Le Gamin au vélo (The Kid With a Bike). Having received her ...

Award for Best Actress

The Best Actress Award went to Kirsten Dunst for her role in Lars Von Trier's movie Melancholia. After receiving the Prize from Edgar Ramirez, the winner declared: "What a week! My thanks to ...

Interwiew with Linn Ullmann

Linn Ullman is a Norwegian writer. She is the daughter of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman. Further to reading literature in the United States, she became a literary critic for a major Norwegian ...

PRIZES OF UN CERTAIN REGARD 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 ...

PRIZES OF UN CERTAIN REGARD 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 ...

Interview with Emir Kusturica

You have just come out of the deliberations with your Jury for the awards of Un Certain Regard. Did you all fight about it? No! We had a very good time. When I was part of the main jury, I met ...

Quote of the Day

You get 23 pairs of chromosomes from your mother and 23 pairs from your father and the question is, what do you add to the mix? That is what is wonderful, because life is always a miracle. Emir ...

Rerun of the movies in Competition

Interview with Robert De Niro

Thirty-five years after having set foot for the first time at the Festival de Cannes alongside Martin Scorsese for the film Taxi Driver (Palme d’Or 1976), the American actor, director and ...

Catherine Deneuve: "Singing is exhilarating for us actors"

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 ...

Atelier de la Cinéfondation: 332 meetings for 15 projects

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 ...

In attendance at Cannes

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 ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan : "I do everything through instinct"

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 ...

Quote of the Day

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 ...

Radu Mihaileanu: “We chose to bet on the chance that women would be the ones to bring change”

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 ...

Quote of the Day

We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros. We are not political combatants. We are directors. Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, co-director with Jafar Panahi of This is Not a Film

School students meet industry professional from Marché du Film

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. ...