Cannes 2022 International Film Festival

Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and director, Forest Whitaker was met with a standing ovation at the opening ceremony for the 75th Cannes Film Festival when he received an honorary Palme d’Or lifetime achievement.   He follows such luminaries as Jodie Foster, Jeanne Moreau, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Fonda, Manoel de Oliveira, and Agnes Varda.

It seems the importance that Ibero-American cinema has been acquiring in the film industry or on the international festival circuit does not matter. With all the effort applied to this edition of the Cannes International Festival - the in-person return after two years affected by the pandemic - in the end, this film fest, considered among the most important in the world, has pretty much forgotten Ibero-American cinema, again.

This year, Cannes will be really Cannes! The festival, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, will be held from May 17 to 28 in an almost normal configuration and will offer top-of-the-range competition. After 2020’s edition was canceled due to Covid and a smaller version held in summer 2021, this year the festival anticipates normal attendance levels.

Cannes 1968  was the festival that never ended. It made perfect sense in a year marked by turmoil, drastic change, growth spurs, counterculture, and an explosion of creativity and talent, all at the same time.