Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker To Be Awarded The Honorary Palme D'or At The 75th Festival De Cannes

Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker to be awarded the Honorary Palme d’or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival

Following Jodie Foster in 2021, Academy Award Winning Actor Forest Whitaker will be the honorary guest at the Opening Ceremony of the 75th Festival de Cannes, to be broadcasted live by France Télévisions and Brut. After Jeanne Moreau, Bernardo Bertolucci, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Agnès Varda, or Alain Delon, he will be the new…

Bycinema scopeMay 5, 20220Comments

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3.14 ROOFTOP TO START SERVING LUNCH DURING THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Cannes, France, April 28, 2022: The 3.14 rooftop, part of the 3.14 Hotel and Casino, located 5 rue Francois Einesy in Cannes, will be open every day from May 17, 2022, from 10 am until 5 pm, with a lunch menu from noon to 3 pm, to offer an additional option for the media and…

Bycinema scopeMay 4, 20220Comments

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Cannes Classics 2022

Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore as grand opening to Cannes Classics, two episodes of Ethan Hawke’s event series on Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, a tribute to Gérard Philipe, Patrick Dewaere being gone for 40 years, one last conversation with Jean-Claude Carrière, the Cinemateca Brasileira and Glauber Rocha, Pilipino director Mike De Leon, Arrabal…

Bycinema scopeMay 2, 20220Comments

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The 75th Cannes Film Festival Short Film Jury

The Short Film Jury will be tasked with selecting one of the 9 films in Competition for the Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded at the Festival's Closing Ceremony on Saturday, May 28, 2022. Last year, the award went to Hong Kong director Tang Yi for her film All the Crows in the World. The…

Bycinema scopeApril 28, 20220Comments

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Actress Rossy de Palma, President of the Jury of the Caméra d’or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival

Following Mélanie Thierry in 2021, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma will be the President of the Jury of the Caméra d’or of the 75th Festival de Cannes, which will be awarded to a film among all the first feature films in the official Selection and in the parallel selections. In 2018, Lukas Dhont, who is…

Bycinema scopeApril 28, 20220Comments

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The Jury of Un Certain Regard for the 75th Cannes Film Festival

Following British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, Valeria Golino will be the President of the Jury of Un Certain Regard at the 75th Festival de Cannes. Along with 4 members from Poland (actress Joanna Kulig), Venezuela (actor Édgar Ramírez), the United States (director Debra Granik), and France (singer-songwriter and actor Benjamin Biolay), she will select the winners…

Bycinema scopeApril 27, 20220Comments

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The Jury of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and its President unveiled

French actor Vincent Lindon will be the President of the Jury of the 75th Festival de Cannes. Together with eight jury members, the actor who won Best Actor in 2015 will present the Palme d'Or to one of the 21 films in competition on Saturday, May 28, during the closing ceremony, to be broadcast live…

Bycinema scopeApril 26, 20220Comments

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Father & soldier by Mathieu Vadepied, starring Omar Sy, Alassane Diong and Jonas Bloquet to open Un Certain Regard

Produced by Bruno Nahon and Omar Sy, Father & soldier is the second feature film of director, screenwriter and cinematographer Mathieu Vadepied. The film highlights the story of the Senegalese infantry men, forgotten heroes of World War One, forced to leave their homeland and fight to liberate France. The Franco-Senegalese co-production, shot in France and…

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Final Cut by Michel Hazanavicius

The Festival de Cannes supports the decision of French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius and his partners to change the French title of his film, which will open the 75th Festival. Originally, the film was called Z (comme Z) (Z, like Z), as a tribute to the genre film, it echoes. Since the letter Z has taken…

Bycinema scopeApril 25, 20220Comments

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75th Cannes film festival: Short films and La Cinef Selections

The Short films Competition After watching 3,507 films from more than 140 countries, 9 shorts will be presented in Competition from the following 11 countries: China, South Korea, Costa Rica, the United States, France, Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, and Nepal. The Short Film Palme d'or will be awarded on Saturday, May 28 during…

Bycinema scopeApril 22, 20220Comments