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Directors’ Fortnight


440 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 17/06/2025.

Review: A Chiara

Review: A Chiara

CANNES 2021: Jonas Carpignano closes his “Gioia Tauro trilogy” with a film halfway between documentary and fiction that centres on a young girl in a criminal family  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Emmanuel Carrère  • Director of Between Two Worlds

Interview: Emmanuel Carrère • Director of Between Two Worlds

“The film has a social aspect, but also a hitchcockian element”

CANNES 2021: The famous novelist once again turned filmmaker decrypts his free adaptation of the book by Florence Aubenas, which opened the Directors’ Fortnight  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

CANNES 2021: Luàna Bajrami delivers a fine first feature, fresh and full of punch, about three girls who metamorphose into a pack of thieves in order to escape the destiny already drawn out for them  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Clara Sola

Review: Clara Sola

CANNES 2021: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén offers up a candid coming-of-age tale with strong doses of magical realism under an illuminating Nordic spotlight  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović  • Director of Murina

Interview: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović • Director of Murina

“The water is a place where my character is free, but it’s also where she can spill some blood”

CANNES 2021: It’s a cruel summer lying in wait for teenager Julija in this Directors’ Fortnight title by the Dubrovnik-born filmmaker  

07/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Between Two Worlds

Review: Between Two Worlds

CANNES 2021: Juliette Binoche infiltrates the daily life of contemporary precarity in this feature with a humanist vision by Emmanuel Carrère, freely adapted from a book by Florence Aubenas  

07/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Paolo Moretti  • Delegate General, Directors’ Fortnight

Interview: Paolo Moretti • Delegate General, Directors’ Fortnight

"What we’re most interested in is representing aesthetic, poetic and political landscapes"

The delegate general of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight comments on the films which have been chosen for the 2021 selection  

15/06/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

A squadron of Europeans set their sights on Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight

A squadron of Europeans set their sights on Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight

Miguel Gomes, Joanna Hogg, Jonas Carpignano, Clio Barnard, Alice Rohrwacher and Pietro Marcello are among the 29 selected directors, 22 of whom will debut on the Croisette by way of a feature  

08/06/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors' Fortnight

Cannes’ Carrosse d’Or goes to Frederick Wiseman

Cannes’ Carrosse d’Or goes to Frederick Wiseman

On 7 July, the US documentarian will receive the prize handed out each year by the French Directors’ Association (SRF) in Cannes  

25/05/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

David Dufresne  • Director of The Monopoly of Violence

Interview: David Dufresne • Director of The Monopoly of Violence

"To still believe in the virtues of dialogue, even if it’s increasingly difficult to do so"

David Dufresne discusses The Monopoly of Violence, a socially engaged documentary dissecting the current philosophy behind law enforcement in France  

29/09/2020 | /France

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