US EditionFilms by Almodovar, Pawlikowski and Hamaguchi lead an auteur-heavy Cannes Film Festival lineup
- On Thursday, Cannes Film Festival delegate general Thierry Fremaux and Cannes president Iris Knobloch unveiled the 79th edition lineup in Paris, emphasizing international auteur cinema over Hollywood spectacle.
- Fremaux reported receiving 2,541 submissions, noting a distinct absence of Hollywood studio films compared to previous years; 21 titles will compete for the Palme d'Or.
- Pierre Salvadori's 1920s-set comedy "The Electric Kiss" will open the festival on May 12, while organizers announced honorary Palme d'Or awards for Barbra Streisand and Peter Jackson.
- South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook will preside over the nine-member jury deciding the Palme d'Or, as new films by Pedro Almodovar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Asghar Farhadi premiere on the Croisette.
- The 79th annual Cannes Film Festival runs through Saturday, May 23, with organizers expecting to announce additional selections for the Directors Fortnight and Critics Week sidebars in the coming weeks.
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Movies by cinema heavyweights dominate Cannes Film Festival lineup
NEW YORK — Movies by some of cinema’s most revered directors are among the 21 titles that will compete for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the event’s organisers announced Thursday, revealing a lineup that leans heavily toward auteur filmmakers.
Among the filmmakers in international competition of this 79th edition, which opens in a month, Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, already winners of a Palme d'or, and Pedro Almodóvar, who would like to get one. Several films take place in time of war, as a reminder that the demonstration was created in 1939In the last five years, since the cancelled edition of 2020 due to pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival saw two French films win the prest…
Twenty-one films will compete for the Palme d'Or for best film in the main competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced today. The directors include both winners of past editions and newcomers, according to festival director Thierry Fremaux. The 79th Cannes Film Festival will run from May 12 to 23.
With his latest film, Almodóvar aspires for the seventh time to the top prize in Cannes, a pending subject for the Manchego filmmaker who in 2024 won the Golden Lion in Venice with "The next room".
Årets politiskt laddade Guldpalmstävling blin en pupgörelse mellan europeiska och asiatiska auteurer – däribland tidigare vinnarna Pedro Almodóvar och Hirokazu Kore-eda. Förutom John Travoltas regidebut och Andy Garcias stjärntunga
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