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Cannes Directors' Fortnight has unveiled the new team of programmers and consultants who will work with incoming delegate general Julien Rejl on his inaugural selection for May 2023. Rejl will be supported by seven programmers. Hervé Aubron, film academic and Cahiers du Cinéma critic Agathe Bonitzer, actress, whose…

EXCLUSIVE: Tunisia has submitted Erige Sehiri's bucolic coming-of-age tale Under the Fig Trees, about a group of teenagers working as fig pickers over the summer, as its entry for the Best International Film Oscar. News of the selection came ahead of the feature's North American premiere Friday in Toronto's…

Cannes Directors' Fortnight has appointed former arthouse sales agent Julien Rejl as its new delegate general and tweaked its French name in a move to usher in a new era of inclusivity for the 60-year-old parallel sidebar. Rejl replaces outgoing Directors’ Fortnight head Paolo Moretti who took up the role in September…

Talk about multiverses. In a parallel cosmos that is apparently just around the corner from you right now, a bunch of boys — and grown men — are living a life so different from yours that they might as well be aliens. You can see them in Owen Kline's Directors’ Fortnight title Funny Pages, hanging out all day in a…

Alice Winocour (Proxima) is in Cannes with a Directors’ Fortnight film Paris Memories which follows a woman recovering from physical and mental trauma. On a Saturday in the fall, Mia (Virginie Efira)  is caught up in a terrorist attack while visiting a Parisian bistro. Three months later, she’s still trying to pick up…

Director Léa Mysius expertly crafts a queer, witchy thriller in her Directors’ Fortnight debut film The Five Devils (Les Cinq Diables), which received a five-minute standing ovation at its premiere  screening. Mysius takes concepts like identity, sexuality and mysticism and creates an intricate genre film that’s part…

Mark Jenkin's 2019 film Bait had the rare distinction of being a genuine out-of-the-blue discovery, featuring heavily on UK critics' year-best lists after a modest arthouse release by the BFI. The black-and-white film's experimental style was emphasized in all its press coverage, nodding to avant-garde auteurs like…

Early in Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer's dark and stately God's Creatures, screening in Directors' Fortnight here at Cannes, one of the younger women at a wake in an old Irish fishing village declares that her new baby will definitely be learning to swim. The dead man drowned, a professional risk on the surging…

Italian director Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden) shifts his focus to France in Scarlet (L'Envol), a period drama in Directors’ Fortnight. Set in the rural north after the First World War, it's a decade-spanning story of family, small town politics and — ultimately — romance. When Raphaël (Raphaël Thiéry) returns from…

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled its lineup for 2022. Scroll down to see the full list. The selection includes Alex Garland’s Cannes debut Men, the Jessie Buckley-starring movie from the surreal sci-fi master. The film will play as a Special Screening in Cannes before A24 releases it in the U.S. in…

Pietro Marcello's Scarlet will be the opening film at the 54th Directors' Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The drama, telling the story of young girl Juliette growing up alone with her First World War veteran father, and who is given a prophecy by a travelling magician, will have its world premiere on…

The three key side events of the Cannes Film Festival – Critics' Week, ACID and the Directors' Fortnight – will not be joining the boycott of Russian cinema. The trio of sidebars released a joint statement today saying they "will continue to receive and consider films from all filmmakers regardless of their…