Empowering Women Behind the Lens

The numbers are still not where they should be: female filmmakers are in the vast minority worldwide. At the Cannes Festival, HFPA-president Helen Hoehne sat down with four of the lucky ones - French Iranian director Emily Atef, Maryam Touzani from Morocco and France's Céline Devaux and Eléonore Gurrey.

"On this planet, half of humanity is male, and half is female. It's as simple as that.