Directors

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES: UN CERTAIN REGARD — AFTER YANG —Kogonada

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals

June 26, 2021

In a world where robotic children are purchased as live-in babysitters, a father and daughter attempt to save the life…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — COMMITMENT HASAN —Semih Kaplanoğlu

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film, Turkish Cinema

June 26, 2021

Making his living from gardening and farming in the land he inherited from his father, Hasan tries to get rid…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — LAMB —Valdimar Jóhannsson

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film Festivals, Icelandic Cinema

June 25, 2021

A childless couple, María and Ingvar discover a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland. The unexpected prospect of family…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — NOCHE DE FUEGO —Tatiana Huezo

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film, Film Festivals

June 25, 2021

Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — BONNE MÈRE —Hafsia Herzi

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film Festivals, French Cinema, Women Filmmakers

June 25, 2021

Hafsia Herzi was born on January 25, 1987 in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. She is an actress and director, known for Tu…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — DELO —Alexey German Jr.

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals, Russian Cinema

June 24, 2021

“David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — BLUE BAYOU —Justin Chon

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film, Film Festivals, Independent

June 24, 2021

“From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for…

CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — ONODA —Arthur Harari

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Filmmaking, French Cinema

June 22, 2021

“Shot in Japanese, this international co-production tells the story of the soldier Hiroo Onoda that was sent to an island…

Farhadi's 'A Hero' to go on screen at Cannes Intl. FilmFest. - Mehr News Agency

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — A HERO —Asghar Farhadi

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film, Filmmaking, Iranian Cinema

June 22, 2021

The film is about a man who is in prison for debt, but when he is released for a few…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — TRE PIANI —NANNI MORETTI

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals, French Cinema

June 18, 2021

Much beloved auteur/actor, and Festival regular, Nanni Moretti once again promises to charm festival goers with his trademark sense of…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — TITANE —Julia Ducournau

Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Comedy, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals, Horror, Women Filmmakers

June 18, 2021

“Julia Ducournau is a French film director and screenwriter. She attended film school at La Fémis in Paris, where she…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — THE FRENCH DISPATCH —Wes Anderson

Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals, Independent

June 18, 2021

Wes Anderson is up to his old less than great tricks. It’s more than doubtful that “The French Dispatch” will…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — RED ROCKET —Sean Baker

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film, Film Festivals, Satire

June 17, 2021

“Mikey Saber is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2012: IN COMPETITION — FRANCE —Bruno Dumont

Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Filmmaking, French Cinema

June 15, 2021

“”France” chronicles the frenetic life of a famous TV star and journalist who becomes caught in the trappings of celebrity…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITON — NITRAM —Justin Kurzel

Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals

June 15, 2021

“Nitram” elucidates events leading to the 1996 massacre in Tasmania’s Port Arthur in which a gunman killed 35 people and…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — MEMORIA —APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals, Filmmaking

June 15, 2021

Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to Cannes with another metaphysical psychological journey into the history that surrounds us in…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — LANGUI —Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Arab Cinema, Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals

June 14, 2021

Thirty-year-old Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives alone with her only child, the fifteen-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is not…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — PARIS 13TH DISTRICT —Jacques Audiard

Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Drama, Film, Film Festivals, French Cinema

June 14, 2021

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy—They’re friends, sometimes…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — LA FRACTURE —Catherine Corsini

Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals, Women Filmmakers

June 11, 2021

Two women on the verge of a breakup find themselves together in a hospital when the staff are overwhelmed by…

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD —Joachim Trier

Art House, Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Festivals

June 11, 2021

This film, from Cannes regular Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier (“Louder Than Bombs”), chronicles four years in the life of Julie,…

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Directors

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES: UN CERTAIN REGARD — AFTER YANG —Kogonada

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — COMMITMENT HASAN —Semih Kaplanoğlu

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — LAMB —Valdimar Jóhannsson

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — NOCHE DE FUEGO —Tatiana Huezo

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — BONNE MÈRE —Hafsia Herzi

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — BLUE BAYOU —Justin Chon

CANNES 2021: UN CERTAIN REGARD — ONODA —Arthur Harari

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — A HERO —Asghar Farhadi

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — TRE PIANI —NANNI MORETTI

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — TITANE —Julia Ducournau

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — THE FRENCH DISPATCH —Wes Anderson

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — RED ROCKET —Sean Baker

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2012: IN COMPETITION — FRANCE —Bruno Dumont

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITON — NITRAM —Justin Kurzel

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — MEMORIA —APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — LANGUI —Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — PARIS 13TH DISTRICT —Jacques Audiard

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — LA FRACTURE —Catherine Corsini

SPOTLIGHT ON CANNES 2021: IN COMPETITION — THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD —Joachim Trier

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