2022 Cannes International Film Festival

There was a two-minute standing ovation after Aftersun in Cannes, the Charlotte Wells directed film starring Paul Mescal (The Lost Daughter) and terrific newcomer, Frankie Corio, as a father and daughter duo on a vacation in Turkey. The film is a deeply personal character study by the Scottish director in her debut feature.

“Eighty percent of silent movies were lost before anyone realized how important they were,” Sandra Schulberg, president of IndieCollect in Los Angeles stated at the May 25th Hollywood Foreign Press Association Napoleon restoration event in Cannes. “Half of all movies made before 1950 have been lost.

(Last of two parts of our round-up of women directors whose films were in competition for Palme d'Or and Un Certain Regard. )   Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (War Pony, Camera d’Or Award)   Riley Keough is the 33-year-old daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough.

For the past 33 years, the HFPA has donated over 50 million dollars to organizations and charities related to cinema, among them the preservation of film and the heritage of filmmakers. 138 films to date have been restored.

All of the different awards bestowed at Cannes can become a bit confusing to absorb. There’s the Palme d'Or, the most coveted award at the festival, if not in the entire film industry, which goes to the best overall film in contention.

(First of two parts of our round-up of women directors whose films were in competition for Palme d'Or and Un Certain Regard. ) At the recent Cannes Film Festival, we applaud women directors who bagged awards, including Claire Denis (Stars at Noon, Grand Prix, jointly awarded), Charlotte Vandermeersch (Le Otto Montagne or The Eight Mountains, Jury Prize, shared with co-director Felix Van Groeningen, jointly awarded), Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (Les Pires or The Worst Ones, Un Certain Regard Award), Lola Quivoron (Rodeo, Coup de Coeur Award), Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (War Horse, Camera d’Or), and Chie Hayakawa (Plan 75, Camera d’Or Special Mention).

The HFPA, through their well-established grants work announced a donation to help restore the 1927 film Napoleon by Abel Gance and celebrated with international filmmakers on the Croisette where legendary Greek-born director Costa-Gavras sat down with our reporter Herve Tropea to talk about the importance of film restoration work. .

Politics, religion, and sex are the trinity that always dominate Arab cinema in international film festivals, especially in Cannes. The Cannes International Film Festival is used to welcoming and celebrating these controversial films, which are not allowed to be screened in their original countries for various reasons.

Evita. Midnight in Paris.

High above the bustle and heat of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, in the penthouse suite of the Five Seas Hotel, Alejandro Nones - star of the smash-hit Netflix series, Quien Mato A Sara? (Who Killed Sara?) - now in its third season - sits, relaxed, open and exuding a huge dose of the appeal that has more than a million fans following him on Instagram. Being a brand ambassador for a house like Chopard, one of the official sponsors of the Cannes Film Festival is a gig many would covet, but the way Nones tells it, the partnership came about by accident.