2022 Cannes International Film Festival

This was Cannes 2022! Our incredible team of HFPA-reporters led by Aniko Navai bring you a re-cap of the 75th Festival, all the winners and all the stars who made this edition especially glamorous and interesting. Enjoy the visual ride! .

Not one but three Belgian films and their filmmakers scored big at this year's festival. At the closing night ceremony last Saturday, the Grand Prix was awarded to Lukas Dhont for Close, the Jury Prize went to Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch for Le Otto Montagne and veterans Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne received the special 75th Anniversary Prize for Tori et Lokita.

In Cannes, Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen, best known for the Oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown and his Hollywood debut film Beautiful Boy, presented his latest film The Eight Mountains, alongside his real-life partner/actor Charlotte Vandermeersch, who also co-directed and wrote the film. Intimately shot by Ruben Impens in the 4:3 aspect ratio, this touching story about friendship is set in the breathtaking and wonderfully photographed Italian Alpine valley of Aosta.

Weeks before arriving in Cannes for my first Cannes Film Festival experience, I understood that sleep was going to be off the table. The festival (which this year returned to a traditional, in-person event for the first time in two years) had implemented a new online ticketing system to avoid day-of lines.

In case you were living in a cave with no internet (and the lack of internet does feature prominently in this podcast), you might have missed the return of the in-person Cannes Film Festival with all the pomp and pageantry one would expect from the preeminent European festival that celebrates both the world’s filmmaking elite, from Tom Cruise to David Cronenberg, to foreign indie directors who took home big prizes again this year. Check out the list of winners and more coverage on www.

The 75th Cannes International Film Festival is over. While the festival celebrates the return to relative normalcy following a global pandemic, there is a new global threat just three hours away from the sunny beaches of the Cote d’Azur—Putin’s devastating war in Ukraine.

It wasn't exactly noon when Stars at Noon premiered on the second to last day - it was midnight. And that may have contributed to the slightly underwhelming showing of the film by Claire Denis, starring Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley, as Aniko Navai reports.

He was not so much the "Devil in Disguise" but rather very obvious in giving strong direction, even on the red carpet: Baz Luhrmann did it his way, and with Elvis Presley always on his mind for years, he knew it was now or never and walked the blue suede shoes towards the Lumiere Theater for the world premiere. Will audiences can't help falling in love with his film? The HFPA's Aniko Navai covered the march of Elvis - stars Tom Hanks and Austin Butler.

Half-naked models? Check. Male and female starlets? Check.

“Sometimes opposite things happen at the same time in one's own life, like a strange morning – and at the same time, a rebirth,” says writer/director Mia Hanson-Løve (Things to Come, All is Forgiven) on the impetus of One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) which premiered in the Director’s Fortnight at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. Speaking after the screening, she explained the very personal narrative of the film which stars Léa Seydoux, Nicole Garcia and Pascal Greggory.