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Cannes 2024


239 articles available in total starting from 07/12/2023. Last article published on 22/04/2025.

Review: Across the Sea

Review: Across the Sea

CANNES 2024: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi depicts the eventful and soulful journey of a young Maghrebi man seeking his fortune in France  

19/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Magnus von Horn • Director of The Girl with the Needle

Interview: Magnus von Horn • Director of The Girl with the Needle

“I decided to use this fear of mine and make a film out of it”

CANNES 2024: Taking the Danish child killings of the 1910s as his starting point, the Swedish helmer recreates a period Copenhagen inspired by collective memory  

19/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Julien Colonna • Director of The Kingdom

Interview: Julien Colonna • Director of The Kingdom

"It’s important to show the machine of organised crime as one which results in death"

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker chatted with us about his first feature film, a fictional story about a father and a daughter on the run, which is partially based upon a childhood memory  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Visiting Hours

Review: Visiting Hours

CANNES 2024: Patricia Mazuy explores an unlikely friendship between two women from very different social classes, played brilliantly by Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Julie Keeps Quiet

Review: Julie Keeps Quiet

CANNES 2024: Young Belgian filmmaker Leonardo van Dijl’s first feature film paints an intimate and brilliantly executed portrait of a young female athlete faced with a painful decision  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Paulo Carneiro • Director of Savanna and the Mountain

Interview: Paulo Carneiro • Director of Savanna and the Mountain

“Since I don't believe in conventional documentary anyway, I started to write the story as a fiction”

CANNES 2024: The Portuguese helmer breaks down his aesthetic concept and how he worked with the protagonists of his documentary-fiction hybrid  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Leonardo van Dijl • Director of Julie Keeps Quiet

Interview: Leonardo van Dijl • Director of Julie Keeps Quiet

“The challenge for me was to make the silence loud”

CANNES 2024: The director unpicks his first feature, an intimate portrait of a young tennis player who has to contend with her coach’s misfortunes as well as her own secrets  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the Sea

Interview: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the Sea

“I have lived through the experience of exile”

CANNES 2024: In his new film, the French-Moroccan director salutes the dreamers and those who never truly feel at home  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Emmanuel Courcol • Director of The Marching Band

Interview: Emmanuel Courcol • Director of The Marching Band

“My main concern was making sure the audience doesn’t leave the cinema feeling desperate”

CANNES 2024: The French director behind The Big Hit proves that music really brings people together – even long-lost siblings  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Cannes Première

Quentin Deleau Latournerie presents the latest Collectif 50/50 study on gender equality at festivals

Quentin Deleau Latournerie presents the latest Collectif 50/50 study on gender equality at festivals

CANNES 2024: Overall, things have changed for the better, but women and non-binary professionals still need to claim more space as filmmakers and within major festivals’ teams  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Marché du Film

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