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Directors’ Fortnight


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

The Repentant : the dangerous burdens of the past

Merzak Allouache returns with a thriller set at the heart of Algeria's recent murderous past  

20/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Directors' Fortnight

Alyah: next year in Israel

FEMIS graduate Elie Wajeman has made a bittersweet first feature about a Parisian drug dealer's Jewish reinvention  

19/05/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Directors' Fortnight

France out in force in the programme

Veteran filmmakers Bruno Podalydès and Noémie Lvovsky will screen their films at the Directors’ Fortnight alongside newcomers Elie Wajeman and Rachid Djaidani  

26/04/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Directors’ Fortnight

Fourteen out of 21 features from Europe

This year’s Directors’ Fortnight is set to delight audiences with Gondry, Ruiz, Podalydès, Lvovsky, Rosales, Wheatley, and Ernest & Célestine 

24/04/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Directors’ Fortnight

When Breathing is hard

Actor-turned-director Karl Markovics’s debut feature Breathing, presented in the Directors' Fortnight, is a superb film whose main character, Roman (played by the incredible non-professional...  

21/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors' Fortnight/Austria

A day in the life of a Heat Wave

When a director makes a debut feature after the age of 40, as Jean-Jacques Jauffret (who previously collaborated with the late director Cyril Collard, to whom the movie is dedicated and whose...  

19/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors' Fortnight/France

Kalev’s Island an exhilarating, existential surprise

Acclaimed young director Kamen Kalev (Eastern Plays, finalist of the European Parliament LUX Prize 2009) playfully, utterly surprised Cannes audiences with an exhilarating title in three acts (and...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors' Fortnight/Bulgaria-Sweden

Corpo Celeste: Teenage spirituality in Calabria

Insidious charm and bright beginnings mark 29-year-old Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s directorial debut,Corpo Celeste, screening in the Directors’ Fortnight of the 64th Cannes Film Festival....  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors’ Fortnight/Italy

Everyone is forgivable in Téchiné’s Unforgivable

“You might be a crime book writer, but you’re an arsehole in real life” hits Francis (André Dussollier) right between the eyes in André Téchiné’s Unforgivable, a film about a writer (adapted from...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors’ Fortnight/France

Iris in Bloom: A reflection on age, love and reason

Directors’ Fortnight is fertile ground of discovery for audiences and experimentation for filmmakers. It is also a wonderful gateway for newcomers lucky enough to get their debut film selected....  

16/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors’ Fortnight/France

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