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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Robin Campillo • Director of Enzo

Interview: Robin Campillo • Director of Enzo

"We wanted to show what was inside this teenager's heart, an explosion of colour, light and sensuality"

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker talks about the genesis of Laurent Cantet's last project, a film about the enigma of adolescence  

14/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Enzo

Review: Enzo

CANNES 2025: In directing the last film by the late Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo weaves a subtle tale of a teenager in search of his place in the world  

14/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight centres on discovery

Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight centres on discovery

The programme is set to welcome 18 features, including an animated film and a documentary, for a selection rich in debut features and led by Christian Petzold, Robin Campillo and Nadav Lapid  

24/04 | Cannes 2025 | Directors' Fortnight

Julien Rejl • General Delegate, Directors’ Fortnight

Interview: Julien Rejl • General Delegate, Directors’ Fortnight

“The Fortnight is a land of clearing and exploration”

CANNES 2025: The General Delegate of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight discusses the 2025 selection and clarifies the debate on its editorial line  

18/04 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Cannes’ Carrosse d’Or goes to Todd Haynes

Cannes’ Carrosse d’Or goes to Todd Haynes

The US filmmaker will be in Cannes on 14 May to pick up the prize handed out each year by the French Directors’ Association  

01/04 | Cannes 2025 | Directors’ Fortnight

Jonás Trueba • Director of The Other Way Around

Interview: Jonás Trueba • Director of The Other Way Around

“The idea of recycling can also be applied to love and partnership”

The Spanish director reveals the latest on his new feature film, winner of the Europa Cinemas Label at the last Cannes Directors' Fortnight  

28/08/2024 | Spain/France

Karan Kandhari • Director of Sister Midnight

Interview: Karan Kandhari • Director of Sister Midnight

"You need to accept your own weirdness with humour acting as a driving force"

CANNES 2024: The Indian filmmaker discusses his first feature, a genre effort about an arranged marriage spiralling into darkness as the wife morphs into a feral force  

27/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors' Fortnight

Review: Plastic Guns

Review: Plastic Guns

CANNES 2024: Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s third feature is a farcical retelling of real-life events that leans heavily on macabre humour  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Jean-Christophe Meurisse • Director of Plastic Guns

Interview: Jean-Christophe Meurisse • Director of Plastic Guns

“My characters are disguising their actual lives and trying to step into different ones, even if it will eventually destroy them”

CANNES 2024: Wannabe detectives and murderers without a conscience seek each other out in the French director’s film – and predictably, mayhem ensues  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: To a Land Unknown

Review: To a Land Unknown

CANNES 2024: Mahdi Fleifel’s second feature is a migrant drama steeped in empathy, boasting an uncompromising lead performance by Mahmood Bakri  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

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