2022 Cannes International Film Festival

Hilarious, biting and stomach-churning Swedish writer/director Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or 2022 is a churning satire on the mega rich who find themselves on a luxury cruise captained by an alcoholic Marxist quoting captain (Woody Harrelson). Croatian-Danish actor Zlatko Burić who plays Russian oligarch Dimitry sat down with HFPA member Greet Ramaekers to talk about the film and playing opposite Woody Harrelson.

Iranian actress Zahar Amir-Ebrahimi had to flee Iran in 2006 because of a leaked tape with private content of a sexual nature on it. Not only was she humiliated and harassed, she was also facing a prison sentence and 100 lashes for her ‘crime’.

One of the highlights at the Cannes Film Festival this year was the Masterclass conducted on May 26 with Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, whose career spans nearly three decades. Born in Copenhagen in 1965, he made his acting debut in Nicholas Winding Refn's 1996 Pusher.

Italian French actress-director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi takes us back to the 80s in her fifth offering, Forever Young, as she shines a light on the legendary director Patrice Chéreau, who founded the acting school Theatre Nanterre-Amandiers located just outside of Paris. Through Tedeschi’s lens, we watch Chéreau’s unorthodox attempts at eliciting various emotions from his students.

Romantic thriller Stars at Noon, based on Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel of the same name, stars Golden Globe nominee Margaret Qualley (Maid) as Trish, a headstrong journalist who has an affair in Nicaragua with a mysterious, soft-spoken English businessman, Daniel, played by Joe Alwyn (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk). While the book is set in the 80s, legendary director Claire Denis (High Life, Both Sides of the Blade) has updated the backdrop from that of the Nicaraguan revolution to the present day COVID pandemic era.

The numbers are still not where they should be: female filmmakers are in the vast minority worldwide. At the Cannes Festival, HFPA-president Helen Hoehne sat down with four of the lucky ones - French Iranian director Emily Atef, Maryam Touzani from Morocco and France's Céline Devaux and Eléonore Gurrey.

As the Hollywood Foreign Press Association joined the world in celebrating the recent 75th annual Cannes Film Festival, there was one movie that stood out for many. So much so, that HFPA Japanese member Itsuko Harai excitedly suggested we talk to Plan 75 writer, director, and cinematographer, Chie Hayakawa about her feature film debut and she became the only filmmaker who took part in an episode of the Golden Globes Around the World podcast during the festival.

It was a historical win at the Cannes Film Festival this year when Song Kang-ho (Parasite), star of Broker, became the first Korean male actor to win the Best Actor award. The film also won plaudits when it took home the Ecumenical Jury Award for Best Film.

Film needs new voices and the HFPA celebrates them: during the Cannes festival at the American Pavillion, our reporter K. J.

Here's a teaser video from last week's New Voices Panel at the Cannes festival. You can watch the entire panel with the three young filmmakers starting tomorrow at 9am PT/12pm ET/6pm CET.