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The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 12 to 23. Barbra Streisand and Peter Jackson are to receive honorary Palmes d'Or at the 79th edition. Park Chan-Wook will head the jury. The line-up will be announced on April 9. The festival will open with The Electric Kiss. We are currently inputting the line-up so please check back.
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Flesh And Fuel
Étienne is a lorry driver. Fastened to the road, his love life is reduced to fleeting, nameless encounters in parking lots. When he meets Bartosz, a Polish lorry driver, his loneliness is turned upside down.
Étienne is a lorry driver. Fastened to the road, his love life is reduced to fleeting, nameless encounters in parking lots. When he meets Bartosz, a Polish lorry driver, his loneliness is turned upside down.
Hope
A thriller set near Korea's heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. When a tiger is reported to have been sighted, the community is thrown into chaos
A thriller set near Korea's heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. When a tiger is reported to have been sighted, the community is thrown into chaos
Goodbye Cruel World
Otto Vidal, 14, disappears after writing a farewell letter to his classmates. While everyone believes he is dead, Léna, a girl from his high school, spots him one night roaming the streets of the city.
Otto Vidal, 14, disappears after writing a farewell letter to his classmates. While everyone believes he is dead, Léna, a girl from his high school, spots him one night roaming the streets of the city.
Low Expectations
A successful young artist's career derails, forcing her back to her hometown. While teaching high school to make ends meet, she navigates depression and rediscovers herself in unexpected ways.
A successful young artist's career derails, forcing her back to her hometown. While teaching high school to make ends meet, she navigates depression and rediscovers herself in unexpected ways.
Fatherland
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, as he and his daughter embark on a road-trip across Germany.
Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, as he and his daughter embark on a road-trip across Germany.
A Man Of His Time
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
Death Has No Master
In Venezuela, the heiress of a colonial cacao plantation and its entrenched guardians enter a duel for the land, where the only harvest left is violence.
In Venezuela, the heiress of a colonial cacao plantation and its entrenched guardians enter a duel for the land, where the only harvest left is violence.
Victorian Psycho
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
La Gradiva
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
A Woman’s Life
A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.
A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.
Cannes Film Festival Features
The aftermath
Jorge Thielen Armand on returning to Venezuela to make Death Has No Master
Age and urgency
Daniel Talbott and Andrew Klaus-Vineyard on Welcome To Tool Shed
Driven by love and capitalism
Director Pierre Le Gall on the themes of Flesh and Fuel
Driving for authenticity
Julian Swiezewski on trucking, gay romance and the power of normality in Flesh And Fuel
Untold history
Christophe Réveille on his documentary Che Guevara: The Last Companions
In totality
Reuben Hamlyn on the intersections of ordinary life with horrific acts, and Sunday's Children
Siren school
Konstantina Kotzamani on professional mermaids and Titanic Ocean
Same movie, different mode
James Gray, Miles Teller and Adam Driver discuss making Paper Tiger
Spectators
Marie Kreutzer, Léa Seydoux, Laurence Rupp and Catherine Deneuve on Gentle Monster
Conflicted characters
Alexis Manenti on Too Many Beasts and Flesh And Fuel
Love, not reason
Pawel Pawlikowski, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl and Hanns Zischler discuss Fatherland
The accidental revolutionary
Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue discuss artistic evolution and Blaise
Cannes Film Festival News
Fjord wins Palme d'Or
Cristian Mungiu takes top prize in Cannes for a second time
Everytime wins Un Certain Regard top prize
Iron Boy and Elephants In The Fog also among accolades
Yuri is top dog in Cannes
La Perra star wins Palm Dog
La Gradiva tops Critics' Week awards
Full list of winners announced
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight winners announced
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning takes People’s Choice Audience Award
Standing ovation for Bruce Dern in Cannes
Documentary première is a family affair
Once Upon A Time In Gaza is Arab Critics Awards winner
Full results announced in Cannes
John Travolta awarded honorary Palme d’Or
"I just can't believe it," says star
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma team takes to the stage at Cannes
"This was the most joyful experience of my life," says Jane Schoenbrun
Paul Laverty, Demi Moore and Park Chan-Wook speak out at Cannes
Jury members get political
Peter Jackson receives Honorary Palme d’Or
Elijah Wood praises filmmaker's early tenacity
Monia Chokri to head Caméra d’Or Jury
Quebecois filmmaker to preside over selection of best directorial debut
Loach, Cruise and Leclerc films hit the beach in Cannes
Open-air Cinéma de la Plage screenings announced
Cannes getting into gear with Fast And The Furious
Festival to host 25th anniversary screening, as Classics also announced
Cannes announces full jury
Paul Laverty, Demi Moore & Stellan Skarsgård among those signed up
Julianne Moore garlanded by Women in Motion
Margherita Spampinato wins Emerging Talent Award
Leïla Bekhti leads Un Certain Regard Jury
French star embraces 'responsibility and joy' of Cannes role
Cavalier vies with fresh talents in Directors’ Fortnight
New and established names provide an eclectic mix in Cannes
Cannes Acid sidebar announced
Parallel section features nine films
Critics' Week announces titles
Animation In Waves opens selection with Yemeni-Scot's debut also in line-up
Cannes prepares to unleash the deluge
Almodóvar, Farhadi, Soderbergh, Sachs and Mungui headline Frémaux’s bumper crop
Travolta flies into Cannes with directorial debut
Star's Propeller One-Way Night Coach is based on his own book
Lighton and McGoldrick join La Résidence
English and Northern Irish directors selected for Cannes development programme
Barbra Streisand to receive Honorary Palme d'Or
Cannes pays tribute to 'consummate creator and courageous citizen'
Peter Jackson to receive Honorary Palme d'Or
Lord Of The Rings director 'privileged' to receive accolade
Park Chan-wook for president
Cannes names South Korean filmmaker as jury head
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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