The winners of the 25th La Cinef Selection

The Short Films and La Cinef Jury, presided by Yousry Nasrallah and comprised of Monia Chokri, Félix Moati, Jean-Claude Raspiengeas et Laura Wandel, has awarded the 2022 La Cinef Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theater, followed by the screening of the winning films. La Cinef Selection included 16 student films, chosen out of…

Bycinema scopeMay 26, 20220Comments

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Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 75th Festival de Cannes

All of the Festival’s events will also be available to all through our media partnership with France Télévisions and Brut., which will offer a broad media coverage of the venue. Red carpet and steps events, press conferences, photocalls and all official events will broadcast in both French and English on France.tv, Culturebox, Brut. Cannes, YouTube…

Bycinema scopeMay 17, 20220Comments

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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…

Bycinema scopeMay 12, 20220Comments

The Salle du Soixantieme will be renamed Salle Agnes Varda

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The Salle du Soixantième will be renamed Salle Agnès Varda

Originally named for the 60th Festival de Cannes, the Salle du Soixantième, located on the rooftop of the Riviera since 2007, will be renamed "Salle Agnès Varda". “I don't just want to show, but also make people want to see”, she said. She got her Honorary Palme d'or, then her official poster: Agnès Varda was…

Bycinema scopeMay 11, 20220Comments

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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…

Bycinema scopeMay 10, 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