A new mandate for Edouard Waintrop

by Fabien Lemercier

02/07/2012 - The Society of Film Directors (SRF) has chosen Edouard Waintrop to be general delegate of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival for the second year in a row, after his first selection of films was well-received last May.

Among the films he selected for the 2012 Directors’ Fortnight, Granny’s Funeral [trailer] by Bruno Podalydès was released in France on June 20, The Night in Front [trailer] by Raoul Ruiz will be out on July 11, Camille Rewinds [trailer] by Noémie Lvovsky and The We and the I by Michel Gondry will be out on September 12, and Alyah [trailer] by Elie Wajeman will follow on September 19. Dream and Silence [trailer, film focus] by Spanish filmmaker Jaime Rosales will be released on October 3, Ernest and Celestine [trailer, film focus] by the trio Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar - Benjamin Renner will be out on December 12, and Sightseers [trailer, film focus] by British director Ben Wheatley will follow on December 26.

(Translated from French)