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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Andreas Horvath  • Director of Lillian

Interview: Andreas Horvath • Director of Lillian

"‘We want to see what happens on the road,’ we said. Potential backers just shook their heads"

CANNES 2019: We sat down with Austrian documentarian Andreas Horvath to unpick his fifth feature-length work, Lillian  

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

Review: Dogs Don’t Wear Pants

Review: Dogs Don’t Wear Pants

CANNES 2019: Finnish helmer J-P Valkeapää proves that all you need is love. And a plastic bag  

21/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: An Easy Girl

Review: An Easy Girl

CANNES 2019: Rebecca Zlotowski stages an amoral, light and sunny tale dismantling the clichés about sexual, cultural, and monetary power relations  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Lillian

Review: Lillian

CANNES 2019: Inspired by the 1927 disappearance of Lillian Alling, Andreas Horvath’s modern-day tale has echoes of David Lynch’s Lost Highway and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Nicolas Pariser • Director of Alice and the Mayor

Interview: Nicolas Pariser • Director of Alice and the Mayor

“In cinema, it’s better when a film has two legs”

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Nicolas Parisier discusses Alice and the Mayor, unveiled at the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Juris Kursietis • Director of Oleg

Interview: Juris Kursietis • Director of Oleg

"There has to be a proper reason to make a film"

CANNES 2019: Latvian director Juris Kursietis is presenting his second film, Oleg, in the Directors' Fortnight, and he talked to us about it  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Bare Necessity

Review: The Bare Necessity

CANNES 2019: Erwan Le Duc cooks up a clever feature debut by approaching the topic of love at first sight from an offbeat and protean comic angle  

20/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Bertrand Bonello  • Director of Zombi Child

Interview: Bertrand Bonello • Director of Zombi Child

"Films are also made for communicating with spirits"

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello explains the thinking behind Zombi Child which was unveiled in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Alice and the Mayor

Review: Alice and the Mayor

CANNES 2019: Nicolas Pariser delivers a very clever and quirky political comedy, with brilliant performances from Fabrice Luchini and Anaïs Demoustier  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Orphanage

Review: The Orphanage

CANNES 2019: Following her acclaimed feature debut, Wolf and Sheep, Shahrbanoo Sadat continues to explore the recent history of Afghanistan through the eyes of children  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors' Fortnight

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