75th Cannes Film Festival

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.

(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.

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 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.

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.