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Directors Anisia Uzeyman and multi-talented Saul Williams deep dive into Afro-Futurism with the new film Neptune Frost. The film first premiered at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes, was an official selection at the Toronto Film Festival, and now at the New York Film Festival. Frost is a bold story about how the power of…

Director Rachel Lang follows military couples in Our Men, an intriguing insight into French Foreign Legion life that closed the Cannes Directors' Fortnight section. Lang herself graduated as Lieutenant from the French army, and served in the Sahel desert in 2017, so it's fair to say she has more knowledge of this…

A family goes on a road trip with a difference in Hit The Road, a promising first feature from Panah Panahi, which showed in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section. The son of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a lean but affecting drama with a winning humorous streak. When we meet the unnamed…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up North American rights to Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis's first fiction feature film The Tale Of King Crab. The Pic recently had its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight section. Oscilloscope said it was planning a theatrical release…

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 Cannes Label for Best European Film went to Jonas Carpignano's A Chiara and the SACD Prize to Magnetic Beats (Les Magnétiques) by…

A Croatian teen comes of age in Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic's Murina, showing in Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese, it stars Gracija Filipovic as Julija, who lives on a remote island with her mother Nela (Danica Curcic) and father Ante (Leon Lucev). Her quiet…

Filmmaker Jonas Carpignano rounds out his Calabrian trilogy with Directors’ Fortnight entry A Chiara, the story of a 15-year-old girl who learns some hard truths about her close-knit family when her father disappears. Carpignano stopped by Deadline’s Cannes Studio to talk about making the film and his experiences in…

Clio Barnard returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the British drama Ali & Ava. While billed as a romance, the Directors’ Fortnight entry doesn't take the path of a traditional idealized love story, instead exploring the connection between a new couple within Barnard's social realist world. Based on locals that she…

In an industry which is still largely grappling at putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to empowering female film directors, there will always be something encouraging about seeing a first-time female director debut her work at an international film festival. But when you meet writer-director Antoneta…

Fans of 2019 Palme d'Or contender Portrait Of A Lady On Fire will know Luàna Bajrami as the terrific young actress who portrayed the maid, Sophie. Now, the French-Kosovan returns to Cannes as a writer, director and star with Directors' Fortnight drama The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (Luaneshat E Kodrës). Bajrami is…

Directors’ Fortnight premiere Clara Sola has many aspects in common with a coming-of-age sexual awakening story — and yet the heroine of Nathalie Álvarez Mesén's drama is 40 years old. A sheltered woman living in remote Costa Rica in the shadow of her religious mother, Clara (Wendy Chinchilla) appears to have learning…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first trailer for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight entry The Hill Where Lionesses Roar, which marks the feature debut of actress-turned-filmmaker Luàna Bajrami, who notably starred in Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The Kosovo-set film, which some are comparing to festival hit Mustang…