#Greta Gerwig Named Cannes Jury President for 2024

#Greta Gerwig Named Cannes Jury President for 2024

Greta Gerwig is hitting the Croisette. The Barbie helmer, fresh off her first-ever best director nomination at the Golden Globes (Gerwig’s $1.4 billion toy-to-screen blockbuster picked up a total of 9 Golden Globe noms), has been confirmed as the Jury President for the 2024 Cannes International Film Festival. “A heroine of our modern times, Greta…

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#Lux Award Shortlist Includes Cannes, Berlin Winners

#Lux Award Shortlist Includes Cannes, Berlin Winners

The Lux Award, a film prize awarded by the European Parliament, unveiled the five finalists for its 2024 honor at the Venice Film Festival on Friday. The shortlist includes already-lauded favorites from the Berlin, Cannes and Sundance film festivals. On the Adamant, Nicolas Philibert’s French documentary about a unique psychiatric treatment center based on a…

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#Cannes: Elena Martín Gimeno’s ‘Creatura’ Wins Best European Film at Directors’ Fortnight

#Cannes: Elena Martín Gimeno’s ‘Creatura’ Wins Best European Film at Directors’ Fortnight

Creatura, the debut feature from Spanish director Elena Martín Gimeno, has won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the 2023 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section. The drama, about a seemingly perfect couple who can’t manage to have sex anymore, explores themes of repression and female sexual desire. Gimeno co-wrote the screenplay for…

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#Writers Strike Dampens Dealmaking in Rainy Cannes

#Writers Strike Dampens Dealmaking in Rainy Cannes

The unseasonably cold and rainy weather in Cannes this year didn’t put a damper on business, but the writers strike loomed like a storm cloud, threatening a deluge.  There were plenty of deals, big and small, in the Cannes Marché du Film, which drew more than 13,500 participants this year, an all-time record, exceeding pre-pandemic…

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#Cannes: Harrison Ford “Flattered and Uncommonly Reflective” After Career Tribute, Is as Busy as Ever (Exclusive)

#Cannes: Harrison Ford “Flattered and Uncommonly Reflective” After Career Tribute, Is as Busy as Ever (Exclusive)

As the 2023 Cannes Film Festival hits its midway point, I have three main takeaways from its first half: (1) None of the high-profile films that have already screened — among them Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Todd Haynes’ May December and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest — have been universally embraced. (2)…

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