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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Review: First Love

Review: First Love

CANNES 2019: Takashi Miike delivers a fun, violent tale about a young couple meeting, falling in love, and then fighting the police and the Yakuza  

25/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Bas Devos  • Director of Ghost Tropic

Interview: Bas Devos • Director of Ghost Tropic

“I could have taken a three-month holiday, but instead I chose to write a film”

CANNES 2019: Belgian director Bas Devos sat down with us to explain how he made Ghost Tropic, a film shot in record time  

25/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Alice and the Mayor scoops the Europa Cinemas Label at Cannes

Alice and the Mayor scoops the Europa Cinemas Label at Cannes

CANNES 2019: Nicolas Pariser’s film has been crowed as the best European film in the Directors’ Fortnight, while An Easy Girl took home the SACD Award  

24/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Tlamess

Review: Tlamess

CANNES 2019: Ala Eddine Slim’s is a story of desertion with Kubrickian overtones, which doesn’t fulfil its promise  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Benoît Forgeard  • Director of All About Yves

Interview: Benoît Forgeard • Director of All About Yves

“The kind of humour that interests me is a questioning, critical, satirical type”

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Benoît Forgeard discusses All About Yves, his wacky comedy about artificial intelligence, which closed the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: All About Yves

Review: All About Yves

CANNES 2019: Benoît Forgeard creates a wacky satirical comedy about artificial intelligence, featuring a fridge that takes control of a failing rapper’s life  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Rebecca Zlotowski  • Director of An Easy Girl

Interview: Rebecca Zlotowski • Director of An Easy Girl

“It’s time for women to re-embrace our sexy stereotypes, and play with them with power and pride”

CANNES 2019: We caught up with Rebecca Zlotowski to discuss An Easy Girl, which plays with sexual stereotypes and power games between privileged men and objectified women  

23/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Blaise Harrison • Director of Particles

Interview: Blaise Harrison • Director of Particles

"A deregulation of everyday life slowly establishes itself"

CANNES 2019: Franco-Swiss filmmaker Blaise Harrison discusses his hybrid feature debut, Particles, unveiled at the Directors’ Fortnight section in Cannes  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Particles

Review: Particles

CANNES 2019 : Blaise Harrison is a revelation with his feature debut, a teen movie with a very personal style at the crossroads of fantasy and quantum physics  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors' Fortnight

Shahrbanoo Sadat  • Director of The Orphanage

Interview: Shahrbanoo Sadat • Director of The Orphanage

“Some people feel I don’t talk enough about war and politics in my films”

CANNES 2019: Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat breaks down The Orphanage, the second part of a planned pentalogy that began with the acclaimed Wolf and Sheep  

22/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

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