Cannes Film Festival

The 74th Cannes Film Festival:
6 - 17 July 2021
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Cannes Film Festival 2021

JUST FOR YOU 
Not one of the gilded few sporting a film festival badge? No probs, you can still indulge your love of films. Every evening during the film festival on the Plage Mace there is a free open air cinema showing classic films - just turn up and grab a deckchair (You do not need a ticket)
Also free is Cannes Cinephiles showing films at four cinemas in Cannes.  Pop into the Cannes Cinephiles' tent on the Pantiero between 9am and 5.30pm to secure your ticket.
Tickets for films shown as part of the Directors' Fortnight are available from the HQ outside the Malmaison or through Cannes Cinephiles and cost seven euros each or 30 euros for six showings. Free tickets can also be had for Critics' Week 

       See below for full details of these public events at the Cannes Film Festival
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Always check what language the film is shown in, if there are subtitles and in what language (usually French and English but do check)
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Two giant screens in town show highlights of the festival including press conferences, photo calls and the stars ascending the red carpet. There is a fireworks display 10pm on xx and a fun game of petanque in Les Allees with celebrities 11am on xx

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​CANNES FILM FESTIVAL - PRESIDENT OF THE                                                            JURY 2021

Spike Lee is the president of the jury for this year's Cannes Film Festival. He is the first black president of the Jury and said he was "surprised, happy and proud".  His Cannes career started in 1986 with a black and white film, made in two weeks, in the Directors' Fortnight section.  A total of seven of his films have been shown here and he won the Grand Prix in 2008 with BlackkKlansman

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Jury to be announced in June 2021

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Master of Ceremonies 2021​

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Opening Film: Cannes Film Festival 2021

The opening film at this year's Film Festival is Annette by Leos Carax, his first film in English.  It is also in competition.  Carax and the film's stars, Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, will attend the screening. Set in modern day Los Angeles, the film tells the story of Henry, a stand up comic, and Ann a famous singer. Annette is their first child and she changes their lives.

Marion Cotillard & Adam Driver

​It is nine years since Leos Carax was in Cannes with Holy Motors which was also in competition

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IN COMPETITION

Jim JARMUSCH:        THE DEAD DON’T DIE  
 
​This will also be the Final Screening on the last night of the Festival
 

Out of Competition 
Nicolas BEDOS:     LA BELLE É

Midnight Screenings
LEE Won-Tae:​ 

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Special Screenings
Waad Al KATEAB Edward WATTS:  

     
​     Honorary Palme d'Or
            Alain Delon

Delon then...

 He collects an Honorary Palme d'Or to celebrate his "wonderful presence in the history of film".
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Delon joins the company of Jeanne Moreau, Woody Allen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Fonda, Clint Eastwood, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Manoel de Oliveira, Agnès Varda and Jean-Pierre Léaud who have all previously been awarded this honour.  

He is considered a giant, a living legend and a global icon. In Japan, where he is revered, he is known as the Spring Samurai. More than 80 films, countless masterpieces and superlatives are testament to the artistic reach and international aura of a man who burst onto the scene in Purple Noon(1960), a crime film and ode to his incredible beauty. 
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And now

Snappers snapped

NEWS FLASHES...
  
This year's event is the greenest yet.  It promises 60% of official cars will be electric or hybrid; a 50% reduction in paper use and printing; 100% reduction in plastic bottles; 50% reduction in the amount of red carpet used; and a waste recovery goal of at least 95%. All caterers have to act responsibly and compensation is being paid for air travel with a green tax on the entrance fees.

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Stars of Once upon a time...in Hollywood

​Un Certain Regard 

The Jury

​President: Nadine Labaki
    








​Official Selection
​Karim AÏNOUZ:            A VIDA INVISÍVEL DE EURÍDICE GUSMÃO (THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF                                                 EURÍDICE GUSMÃO) 
Nariman ALIEV:            EVGE 1st film 
Kantemir BALAGOV:     BEANPOLE 
Zabou BREITMAN Eléa GOBBÉ-MÉVELLEC:   THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL animation  
Monia CHOKRI:            A BROTHER'S LOVE 1st film 
Michael COVINO:         THE CLIMB 1st film 
Bruno DUMONT:           JOAN OF ARC 
​Christophe HONORÉ:    CHAMBRE 212  
Oliver LAXE:                O QUE ARDE (A SUN THAT NEVER SETS) 
Danielle LESSOVITZ:    PORT AUTHORITY 1st film 
Mounia MEDDOUR:      PAPICHA 1st film 
Midi Z:                       ZHUO REN MI MI (NINA WU)  
Albert SERRA:             LIBERTÉ  
Annie SILVERSTEIN:    BULL 1st film 
Marian TOUZANI:        ADAM 
ZU Feng:                    LIU YU TIAN (SUMMER OF CHANGSHA) 1st film
Lorenzo MATTOTTI       LA FAMOSA INVESIONE DEGLI ORSI IN SICILIA
Larissa SADILOVA        ODNAZHDY V TRIBCHEVSKA                           

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Short Films & Cinefondation 

Jury president is
​                Claire Denis
French film maker Claire Denis (73) has occupied a unique place in contemporary cinema for more than 30 years. She has directed a compelling body of work, including 13 feature films, four of which were screened in the Festival de Cannes’ Official Selection. A true adventurer, she has established her taste for observation and experimentation throughout her artistic career.  She will present the short film Palme d'Or at the closing ceremony.


​SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: 
The following films are all in the running for the 2019 Short Film Palme d’Or 

Erenik BEQIRI:              THE VAN                                         Albania/France  
Dekel BERENSON:          ANNA                                              Ukraine/Israel/UK                  Vanessa DUMONT:         THE JUMP (documentary)                  France
Nicolas DAVENEL Vasilis KEKATOS: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE SKY  Greece 
Teemu NIKKI:                ALL INCLUSIVE                                 Finland  
Elin ÖVERGAARD:          INGEN LYSSNAR (WHO TALKS)           Sweden
Agnès PATRON:             AND THEN THE BEAR (Animation)       France 
Yona ROZENKIER:         PARPARIM (BUTTERFLIES)                  Israel
Agustina SAN MARTIN:  MONSTRUO DIOS (MONSTER GOD)     Argentina
Chloë SEVIGNY:             WHITE ECHO                                     USA 
Federico Luis TACHELLA:   LA SIESTA                                     Argentina
                                                           
​         Cinefondation Awards are for film students

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CAMERA D'OR - for the best first film

Cambodian director Rithy Panh, Jury President

​The Caméra d’Or, created in 1978, is awarded to the director of the best first film presented in the Official Selection - In Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard, as well as the Critics' Week and the Directors’ Fortnight. This year's jury president is 
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​Jim Jarmusch, Mira Nair, Naomi Kawase, Bahman Ghobadi and Steve McQueen have received this award in the past.  

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CANNES FILM CLASSICS - our cinema heritage

Peter Fonda: Easy Rider

Cannes has created the first ever Heritage Cinema section at a major festival.
This year's screenings include the 25 year old La Cité de la peur;  a Midnight Screening of The Shining presented by Alfonso Cuarón;  and 50 years of the mythical Easy Rider in the company of Peter Fonda.
Luis Buñuel is in the spotlight with three films and other highlights are:  the attendance of Lina Wertmüller;  the 1951 Grand Prix Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan;  a final salute to Milos Forman; and the first Japanese animated film in colour.  The World Cinema Project and the Film Foundation of Martin Scorsese also feature as well as documentaries about cinema and history, known masterpieces, and rare films in restored version from countries rarely honoured.

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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

​Cinema de la Plage
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Classic films shown on the Mace Beach at 9.30pm, free  
​You just turn up - first come, first seated on the deckchairs.
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*​open to the public*​

Some of the films will be presented by the stars associated with them. Be there!
 
​ 14 May:   Ciné-karaoké (sing along)  
 15 May:   Les 400 coups,  
                           François Truffaut (1959)
 16 May:  La Cité de la peur 
                             Alain Berberian (1994)
 17 May:  A surprise film
 18 May:  Mélodie en sous-sol 
​                               Henri Verneuil (1962)
 19 May:  The Doors   Oliver Stone (1991)
 20 May:   Haut les filles  
                          François Armanet (2019)
 21 May:  Tigre et dragons 
                                        Ang Lee (2000)
 22May:  Easy Rider  Dennis Hopper (1969)
 23 May: Boyz'n the hood 
                               John Singleton (1991)
 24 May:  Les patriotes 
                                  Éric Rochant (1994)
 25 May:  Cine Karoake (sing along)

Cannes Film Fans 
       *open to the public*

The organisation, Cannes Cinephiles, shows a selection of films from the Festival and its fringe at four venues in non central locations: La Licorne, Studio 13, Raimu and Theatre Alexandre lll. It also shows films from Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia as its contribution to the fringe. 
Tickets are free and available from Cannes Cinephiles' tent on the Pantiero. Or see
          www.cannes-cinema.com

Directors' Fortnight: 15-25 May  
                                                         *open to the public*

You can buy an individual ticket (8 euros) or a pass (35 euros) for six festival showings from the headquarters at Malmaison on the Croisette or the Cinephile tent or via its website.

You have to buy daily tickets on the day of the showing. Full length feature films are shown at The Croisette Theatre.

The full screening programme can be downloaded from www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com 

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The French Film Guild's Golden Coach is awarded each year to one director
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The Carrosse d'Or is a bronze statuette inspired by the figures of the Comedia dell'Arte and Jean Renoir's film of the same name –  it was created by painter-sculptor Lili Legouvello.
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    Official Film Festival Poster 

2019 Cannes Film Festival

 

This year's official poster pays tribute to French film maker Agnès Varda who died on March 29, 2019.
The poster is a still taken from her 1994 film, La Pointe Courte.  A member of the Jury in 2005, Ms Varda was awarded an honorary Palme d'Or in 2015.

It can be purchased at official outlets in Cannes
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Critics' Week May        *OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*          Encourages newcomers to the film industry 

Tickets can be obtained from 25 rue Pasteur, a side street next to the Miramar or from Cannes Cinephiles.  Tickets are limited and you have to arrive 50 minutes before the screening. Films are shown at the Miramar.
This year, besides showings all day, there will be a screening at 8.30pm.
The jury will award the Grand Prix Nespresso to one of the feature films in competition; the Discovery Leica Cine Prize for one of the short films; and the Louis Roederer Foundation awards a Newcomer.  The latter will be presented to an actor in a feature film shown in competition 

Opening Film
Litigante 
Feature Film Special Screening 
Les héros ne meurent jamais
Tu mérites un amour 
Short Film Special Screening
Demonic Naptha
Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You 
Invisível Herói (Invisible Hero)
Tenzo 
​Closing Film 
​Chun jiang shui nuan (Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains)

​Feature Films & Shorts in Competition
​See web site:       www.semainedelacritique.com

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Chairman of the Critic's Week jury this year is ...

           Ciro Guerra 

A 38-year-old Colombian  film director and screenwriter, he made his first film Wandering Shadows in 2004.  His next film The Wind Journeys competed in Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes film Festival.
His 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent was screened at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes in 2015. The film was in the running for Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars and was the first Colombian film ever to be nominated.  In 2018, Guerra released his fourth feature film, Birds of Passage.  Guerra will make his Hollywood debut directing an adaptation of the adventure book The Detainee by Peter Liney.  Guerra is working on another film: an adaptation of the novel Waiting for the Barbarians, starring Mark Rylance.

                                            www.semainedelacritique.com
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And the Winners are...
Nespresso Grand Prize                              J'AI PERDU MON CORPS (I LOST MY BODY)
                                                                                                      by Jérémy Clapin
Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for short film           SHE RUNS                   by Qiu Yang

Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson                            HVÍTUR, HVÍTUR DAGUR (A WHITE, WHITE DAY)
                                                                                                    by Hlynur Pálmason

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On the red carpet...

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Sixty meters of red carpet are used to cover the famous 24 steps at the Palais des Festivals. The carpet is changed three times a day during the festival and a total of 2km is used.

The president of the festival Pierre Lesclure, former head of Canal Plus, greets the stars and other guests at the top of the steps. He is joined by the mayor of Cannes, currently David Lisnard


      Frock Spot     Opening Night: 14 May 2019

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​Allee des Etoiles:
                         STAR WALK  

Film Star Hand Prints

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​It is during the Cannes film festival that Nadine Seul chases after the biggest star names in the world to ask them for their hand prints - must make a change from autograph hunters. About 375 hand prints have been taken since 1983. 
The stars press one or both hands into a block of clay. This is sent to a potter in Vallauris who makes a plaster mould which, in turn, goes to a foundry in the Rhone.
The mould and the shiny new stainless steel handprint then return to Cannes: the mould to the bowels of the Palais des Festivals and the hand print to the Allee des Etoiles which snakes around the Palais.


PHOTO OPS

​Along the coast you will find silhouette cut outs of your favourite stars for that ultimate photo opportunity.

Locations:  allées de La Liberté ;  gare maritime ; Vieux port (opposite Hôtel de Ville) ; end of quai Saint-Pierre ; l’Office du tourisme, avenue Francis Tonner, Cannes La Bocca ; square Reynaldo Hahn at 10 boulevard Jean Hibert ; place du Général de Gaulle ; Palais des festivals garden ; la Roseraie gardens ; la Croisette ;  boulevard du Midi Louise Moreau.
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Stars:  Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio, Titanic, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator 2, Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson, Maverick, Johnny Depp,  Christian Bayle  The dark knight, as well as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe (right) and Brigitte Bardot 
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​CANNES fait le MUR
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Blake Lively

Large photographs of the stars appear on walls throughout the town and across the rue d'Antibes.  Try and identify the stars as you walk around.  This year the theme is Stars Relaxed. The photographs are supplied this year by Paris Match.

Walls
Roger Moore & Sean Connery - Hôtel de ville 
Tahar Rahim - 81 bd de la République 
Gary Cooper - Hôtel Renoir, voie rapide 
Natalie Portman - Hôtel Cannes Riviera, voie rapide 
Alfred Hitchcock - Espace Ranguin 
Michelle Williams - Cinéma les Arcades, 77 rue Félix Faure 
Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda & Jack Nicholson - La Bocca, avenue Francis Tonner 
Arnold Schwarzenegger - railway station

Rue d’Antibes
Grace Kelly; Kirk & Anne Douglas; Liv Tyler;
Jeanne Moreau; Virginie Efira; Ryan Reynolds;
Sophia Loren; Robert Pattinson; Brigitte Bardot; Blake Lively

Cannes Film Murals

Take a tour round Cannes to see all the film murals - there are 16 in total. This one is at the bus station and celebrated 100 years of cinema: can you spot Mickey Mouse, R2-D2 and Batman? 
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The Palme d'Or by Chopard

The Palme d'Or is worth about 20,000 euros and the 19 leafed palm is made from 118 grammes of pure gold. It is attached to a block of crystal. Each piece is unique as the crystal can be of a slightly different hue each year. Two are made, as well as two mini Palme d'Or, for each festival by five of Chopard's top jewellers in Geneva. These same artisans produce the "red carpet" range of jewellery worn by the stars each evening.
The mini palm d'ors are for the best actor and actress awards.

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And the winners are...

Palme d'Or  
Bong Joon-Ho:  Parasite

GRAND PRIX
Mati Diop:   Atlantique

JURY PRIZE


BEST ACTOR
Antonio Bandera in Douleur et Gloire

BEST ACTRESS
Emily Beecham in Little Joe

BEST SCREENPLAY
Celine Sciamma for
                   Portrait de la jeune fille en Feu
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BEST DIRECTOR 
Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne  for Young Ahmed

Film Festival Titbits

Cannes is building a multiplex cinema which will include a museum of cinema. Thanks to the Cannes film festival, the town has more than 10,000 films, 50,000 interviews with stars and 300,000 photographs. It is on track to open early 2020
It has been designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti and will have seats for 2,426 people in 12 cinemas.

There is a Grace Kelly suite at the Carlton Hotel

The chef of the Palme d'Or restaurant in the Martinez Hotel prepares a film themed menu for the jury's first meal together. 

The tourist authorities produce a brochure featuring film tours on the Cote d'Azur to see where great movies were made. 
Set-jetting rather than
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250 gardeners plant 15,000 plants in the town for the festival & 400 giant planters protect pedestrians

4,580 journalists join the 12,000 film professionals

700 local and national police are on hand to look after everyone together with 580 street cameras

And 100 extra taxis are in Cannes for the festival

The wonderful Villa Domergue (below) is at the disposal of the jury during the Festival.

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