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Cannes: Docs – ‘Room 999’ Finds Directors Pondering Future of Cinema
In addition to its curated and prestigious world premieres, the Cannes Film Festival has a notoriously active marketplace, with producers and filmmakers from all over the world descending each year upon the Côte d’Azur to pitch their would-be projects and attempting to secure financing. In 1982, however, director Wim Wenders had a different aim.