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Mariupolis 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius at the 75th Festival de Cannes

Mariupolis 2 by Mantas Kvedaravičius at the 75th Festival de Cannes

As we know, the Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius, who directed Barzakh (2011), Mariupolis (2016) and Parthenon (2019), was captured and murdered by the Russian army in Mariupol in early April. His fiancée, Hanna Bilobrova, who was with him at the time, was able to bring back the footage filmed there and edited it with Mantas' editor Dounia Sichov. The film is…

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Kering and the Festival de Cannes will present the 2022 Women In Motion Award to actress and producer Viola Davis

Kering and the Festival de Cannes will present the 2022 Women In Motion Award to actress and producer Viola Davis

François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kering, Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes and Thierry Frémaux, Executive Director of the Festival de Cannes, will present the award during the official Women In Motion dinner in Cannes on Sunday, May 22, 2022. Viola Davis, known throughout the world for her acting roles and…

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2022 Cinema de la plage

2022 Cinéma de la plage

In addition to all the screenings, conferences and events of the Official Selection happening at the Palais du Festival, the Festival reinvents itself each day at 9.30 pm and transforms the Macé beach of the Croisette (across the Majestic) into an open-air theater at nightfall. This event is open to all festival-goers and casual cinephiles, free…

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Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker to be awarded the Honorary Palme dor 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…

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Cannes Classics 2022

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…

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