AroundJury President Spike LEE Mati DIOP (France, Sénégal), Mélanie LAURENT (France), Mylène FARMER (Canada, France), Maggie GYLLENHAAL (Etats-Unis), Jessica HAUSNER (Autriche), Tahar RAHIM (France), Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO (Brésil) and SONG Kang-Ho (Corée du Sud)
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ANNETTE red carpet presentation with Leos CARAX (France). Marion COTILLARD, Adam DRIVER et Simon HELBERG & musicians Ron MAEL and Russell MAEL.
Annette is a 2021 musical film directed by Leos Carax (in his English-language debut), and with a screenplay by Ron Mael and Russell Mael of Sparks, and Carax, from an original story, music and songs by the band. It stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard.
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The Korean director will be back on the Croisette, after the triumph of Parasite in 2019, the latest Palme d'or to date and the first in the history of Korean cinema.
Bong Joon Ho will be one of the special guests at the Opening Ceremony on July 6th and will present an exceptional "Rendez-vous with..." the next day in the Buñuel Theatre of the Palais des Festivals.
Among other surprises in store for ...
J-1D-1 Au Miramar At the Miramar
Demain Tomorrow
8:30 ROBUSTE Constance Meyer (1H35/VOSTA)
11:30* THE GRAVEDIGGER'S WIFE Khadar Ayderus Ahmed (1H22/VOSTF+A)
14:30* ROBUSTE Constance Meyer (1H35/VOSTA)
17:15* THE GRAVEDIGGER'S WIFE Khadar Ayderus Ahmed (1H22/VOSTF+A)
19:45* ROBUSTE Constance Meyer...
Belle by Mamoru Hosoda © 2021 Studio Chizu
Belle, the animation film by the Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda will be presented in world premiere during the 74th Festival de Cannes in the Cannes Premiere section. Following Wolf Children (2012), The Boy and the Beast (2015), and Mirai (2018), it is the first official Selection for Mamoru Hosoda.
Belle, is the third animation film presented this year at the Festival after Ari Folman’s Where is Anne Frank and The Summit of the...
Jodie Foster © DR - Matt Damon © V E Anderson / WireImage - Isabelle Huppert © Peter Lindbergh (Courtesy Peter Lindbergh Foundation, Paris) - Steve McQueen © John Russo - Marco Bellocchio © DR
“Rendez-vous with…"Jodie Foster, Matt Damon, Isabelle Huppert, Marco Bellocchio and Steve McQueen at the Festival de Cannes!"
Launched in the 90s, “Masterclasses” became a highlight of the 12 days at Cannes over the years. The Fest...
Two documentaries available online © AFFIF
From this evening - Friday, July 2nd - and throughout the weekend, you can watch previews of Olivia de Havilland, l’insoumise (The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland), by Daphné Baiwir, and Morceaux de Cannes (Pieces of Cannes) by Emmanuel Barnault: two landmark documentaries available for free on the Festival website and on the Cine+ Dailymotion platform.
A real first!
In a new initiative by the Festival...
L'Atelier 2021 © AFFIF
The Cinefondation’s Atelier hosts its seventeenth edition this year and will invite to the Festival de Cannes 15 directors whose projects have been considered particularly promising.
Together with their producers, they will be able to meet potential partners, a necessary step to finish their project and start the making of their film. L’Atelier provides its participants access to international co-productions, thus accelerating the film’s c...
Mélanie Thierry © picture : Sabine Villiard
Mélanie Thierry © picture : Sabine Villiard
The French actress Mélanie Thierry will be the President of the 2021 Camera d’or that will award a first feature film selected at the Festival de Cannes.
« Nothing is as fragile or as miraculous as a first movie. This testifies to the courage and the faith of all the directors who, after such a long period of seclusion, succeeded in providing us wi...
The Better World Fund Team wishes to highlight the work of the René Moawad Foundation, who established in 2000 a center for Education and Protection Services for underserved cohorts of population.
The René Moawad Foundation was created on November 22, 1991, on the second anniversary of President René Moawad’s assassination. He had been elected President of the Lebanese Republic on November 5, 1989 and was killed 17 days later. He is remembered as believer i...
PROGRAMME DES PROJECTIONS | SCREENINGS PROGRAMME
Afin de préparer votre planning à Cannes, vous pouvez consulter dès aujourd’hui le programme de la 60e Semaine de la Critique. In order to plan your stay in Cannes, please find below the link to access the screening schedule of the 60th Semaine de la Critique.
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OSS 117
Alerte rouge en Afrique noire
(From Africa With Love)
Nicolas Bedos, Jean Dujardin & Pierre Niney for the Final Screening of the 74th Festival de Cannes!
In 2019, Hors Normes (The Specials), directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, closed the official Selection of a memorable edition. The Festival is pleased to announce that OSS 117, Alerte rouge en Afrique noire (From Africa With Love), directed by Nicolas Bedos, will be shown at the 74th edition’s &ldquo...
Kinuyo Tanaka © Nikkatsu / Carlotta
As every year, the Festival de Cannes presents a selection of the best restored prints and invites us to explore again the history of Cinema.
The curtain rises with Mark Cousins' pre-opening documentary; the rediscovery of director-actor Kinuyo Tanaka and Spanish director actress, screenwriter and producer Ana Mariscal; a tri...
The Jury of the 74th Festival de Cannes
Around the President Spike Lee, five women and 3 men of seven nationalities, coming from five continents will have the privilege to discover the 24 films of the 2021 international Competition. As a reflect of the official Selection, almost the whole world will be part of these long-awaited premieres.
Spike Lee - President
Director, producer, screenwriter (United States)
Mati Diop
Director (France, Senegal)
Myl&eg...
An exclusive screening for the launch of the Official Selection
Tuesday, July 6th 2021
Cinema’s recent past welcomes its immediate future! Original and ultra-contemporary, the latest episode of The Story of Film by Mark Cousins, a masterpiece dedicated to the history of cinema, will be showcased in Cannes on Tuesday, July 6th.
Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish filmmaker and author. His films, including The First Movie, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Eyes of Orson Welles...
Marcher sur l’eau d’Aïssa Maïga © Rousslan Dion, Bonne Pioche Cinéma - 2021
In 2021 and given the urgency of the situation, protecting the environment is at the heart of the Festival de Cannes' preoccupations, reflected up to its Official Selection. The Selection was already bearing that mark, when in 2007, Al Gore was invited for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth that brought him an Oscar and to numerous other films, including those produced ...
Second guest of honor of this 74th edition after Jodie Foster attending the Opening Ceremony, Italian director Marco Bellocchio will present his new feature film in the Cannes Premiere section, on Friday, July 16th, after having met the audience the previous evening at the “Rendez-vous with…”.
And during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday, July 17 2021, the Festival will present him with an Honorary Palme d’or, a tribute to his unique œuvre that has marked contem...
For his second feature film and his first time in Official selection, Arthur Harari will open Un Certain Regard with Onoda - 10 000 Nights In The Jungle.
Shot in Japanese, this international coproduction tells the story of the soldier Hiroo Onoda that was sent to an island in the Philippines in 1944, to fight against the American offensive. As Japan surrenders, Onoda ignores it, trained to survive at all costs in the jungle, he keeps his war going. He will take 10 000 day...
CLARA, 40, is believed to have a special connection to God. As a "healer", she sustains a family and a village in need of hope, while she finds solace in her relationship with the natural world. After years of being controlled by her mother’s repressive care, Clara’s sexual desires are stirred by her attraction to her niece’s new boyfriend. This newly awakened force takes Clara to unexplored territory, allowing her to cross boundaries, both physical and m...
For the immense impatience to finally find ourselves again in the Cannes setting : the seaside ,the palm trees and the silver screen, just like a blank page, that will welcome the films of the Official Selection…
For that curious look he is going to put on the work of his fellow filmmakers who bring us news of the World – of theirs and surely a little bit of ours too…
For this personal view that he has shared with us since his very first feature : sho...
In Competition
Opening Film
ANNETTE
Leos CARAX (France)
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A FELESÉGEM TÖRTÉNETE
(THE STORY OF MY WIFE)
Ildikó ENYEDI (Hungary)
BENEDETTA
Paul VERHOEVEN (Netherlands)
BERGMAN ISLAND
Mia HASEN-...
Mounia Meddour © Olivier Vigerie, Daniel Burman © The mediapro Studio, Andrea Arnold © Rankin, Michael Covino © DR, Elsa Zylberstein © Sylvie Lancrenon
President
Andrea Arnold
Director, screenwriter
(United Kingdom)
Mounia Meddour
Director, screenwriter, producer
(Algeria)
Elsa Zylberstein
Actress
(France)
Daniel Burman
Director, producer, screenwriter
(Argentina)
Michael Covino
Director, producer, actor
(United States)
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This year, the selection committee has viewed 3739 short films.
The 2021 Short Films Competition comprises 10 films, from Brazil, Denmark, China, France, Hong Kong, Iran, Portugal and for the first time in Official Selection Kosovo and Macedonia.
Marija APCEVSKA
SEVEREN POL
(North Pole)
Macedonia
15'
Samir KARAHODA
PA V...
Kaouther Ben Hania © DR / Sameh Alaa © Mattbed / Tuva Novotny © Henrik Adamsen / Nicolas Pariser © Victor Mirabel / Alice Winocour © Aurélie Lamachère / Carlos Muguiro © Iñigo Royo
The Jury for Short Films and the Cinéfondation film school competition will be awarding the Short Film Palme d'or to one of the 10 films in Competition, and the three Cinéfondation prizes to the best of the 17 selected films by...
The image, by photographer and filmmaker Daniel Mercadante, is part of his series “The Enchanted Forest”, and was created through a process that combines long exposure photography, light projection and juxtapositions.
The artist “paints” the trees with the coloured light of handheld flashlights and, using long exposure techniques, explores the temporal dimension that photography shares with cinema. The wide spectrum of colours reflects the richness and diversity of con...
