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The Cannes Film Festival parallel sections Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week have been cancelled in situ due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s the statement from the sections: Following the French President’s April 13 announcement banning any festival from taking place until mid July, the parallel sections of…

Although the Directors' Fortnight section of Cannes is non-competitive, prizes are awarded by its partners. Revealed today, ahead of the closing ceremony this evening, the Europa Cinemas Label nod for Best European Film went to Alice And The Mayor by Nicolas Pariser while the SACD Prize will be given to Rebecca…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first subtitled trailer for Quentin Dupieux’s Directors Fortnight opener Deerskin. The Artist Oscar winner Jean Dujardin trades in his dancing shoes for a suede jacket in the thriller whose synopsis reads: Georges, 44 years old, and his jacket, 100% deerskin, have a plan. Dupieux is a self-taught…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a striking first trailer for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight drama Lillian, produced by Ulrich Seidl (Goodnight Mommy). Andreas Horvath’s (Earth’s Golden Playground) feature stars newcomer Patrycja Planik as an emigrant in New York who decides to make an epic journey by walking back to her home in…

The Directors’ Fortnight, which runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival, has flashed its rebel spirit by selecting Netflix film Wounds among its lineup. Doing so could potentially rile local exhibitors who kicked up such a fuss the last time Cannes played Netflix films in Competition that the festival had to ban the…

The prestigious Directors’ Fortnight, which runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival, has revealed an intriguing lineup which includes Robert Eggers’ (The Witch) Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe drama The Lighthouse, Takashi Miike’s latest feature and Netflix film Wounds, whose inclusion is sure to raise eyebrows…

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight will open with French comedy Deerskin, starring Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Adèle Haenel (BPM). Dujardin plays a man who becomes obsessed with owning an expensive designer deerskin jacket, leading him to blow his life savings and even turn to crime. The film will have its world premiere…

The Berlin Film Festival‘s new leadership duo of Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek have revealed some of their new programming team. As anticipated there is a strong Locarno (Chatrian’s former festival) flavour. Chatrian has appointed a seven-member selection committee. Locarno's former head of programming, Marc…

An early hit with festivalgoers who prefer to look outside the Official Selection, Jaime Rosales's Directors’ Fortnight entry Petra proved the Spanish director to be a fluid and unpredictable talent. Arguably most famous—or perhaps infamous—for the almost entirely dialogue-free 2008 Basque terrorist drama Bullet in the…

After the triumphant Directors' Fortnight world premiere of his Climax, Gaspar Noé‘s latest descent into hell has taken the section's top prize. The Cicae Art Cinema Award was presented this evening to the film which features a group of mesmerizing young dancers who fall into madness after drinking a bowl of LSD-laced…

Marie Monge took inspiration for Directors' Fortnight selection Joueurs, her first feature, from her own experiences in the world of gambling, with a desire to "write about a very masculine world from the point of view of a woman." At the age of 22, she had a friend who was a gambler and, with him, discovered Paris's…

Debra Granik likes to take her time. Since her first, award-winning short, Snake Feed, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, the 55-year-old director has made just three features and a doc in the intervening 20 years. Indeed, in the gap between her latest movie and the last, Winter's Bone, Granik has seen…