2022 Cannes International Film Festival

Not one but four films from Belgium are part of the Cannes competition this year: Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix can Groeningen’s Le Otto Montagne, Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah Rebel and the Dardenne Bros,’ Tori et Lokita, Lukas Dhont’s Close. HFPA-reporter Greet Ramaekers talked to the actors and cinematographers who worked with them to explain their dedication on the road to major success.

The 75th Cannes Film Festival came to a close and the final night saw the red carpet glamor continue, with Andie MacDowell, Diane Kruger, and Deepika Padukone showing the way. .

Even though classified as an Italian film in competition for the Palme d'Or, Le Otto Montagne (The Eight Mountains) was made by a team of Belgian filmmakers, including celebrated cinematographer Ruben Impens who received a nomination here only last year for Titane. HFPA reporter Greet Ramaekers caught up with him on the Rue d'Antibes in Cannes.

After the big blow of Titane last year, all predictions were possible for the Palme d'Or this year. On the Croisette, tongues were starting to loosen between a young director who questions masculinity (Close), a thriller that confirms the South Korean wave (Decision to Leave), or the film by the Dardenne brothers which could obtain a historic treble with Tori and Lokita.

Imagine you are a young filmmaker walking the coveted red carpet of the world’s première festival for the first time. And getting thrown out.

The war had barely ended, the wounds and scars were still open and painful. The arts could be a powerful balm for all the pain that remained from the past horrors.

Women go naked, men conceal. The trend is to show as much as you can.

Danish-Iranian director Ali Abbasi has made a fictional film about a real serial killer, who killed 16 women in Iran. It was the reactions to the killings that caught his interest.

Godland is both a love and a hate letter and a to Iceland and the country that colonized it. A Danish priest is challenged when seeking to set up a parish in the harsh Icelandic landscape in the late 19th century and languages and cultures clash.

Best known for his performance in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers, French star Louis Garrel turned to directing seven years ago. This film is his fourth feature, a comedy that delighted the audience after many days of much heavier fare.