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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Belgian films bookend Quinzaine

Over the past three years, the Directors' Fortnight seems to have fallen in love with Belgian cinema. A rich crop of titles has been selected at recent editions, including Joachim Lafosse’s...  

20/04/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors’ Fortnight/Belgium

16 European titles in 25-strong line-up

Impressively continuing its discovery of new talents and its openness to all cinematic styles marked by emotion and auteur rigor, the 43rd Directors’ Fortnight, which will run from May 12-22...  

19/04/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors' Fortnight

Panahi to receive Carrosse d’Or

Iranian director Jafar Panahi will receive the Carrosse d’Or (“Golden Coach”) awarded by the Society of Film Directors (SRF) at the opening evening of the 43rd Directors’ Fortnight, which will run...  

03/02/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors’ Fortnight

Lily Sometimes, a hymn to joy

After a series of often dark-themed films, the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has chosen for its closing this evening a film which is colourful, bucolic and sunny right from the start: Lily...  

21/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte wins Europa Cinemas Label

Le Quattro Volte by Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino (see interview) has won the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in the Directors’ Fortnight. The film (see news) will receive...  

21/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors Fortnight/Italy

Hell is other people in Picco’s prison

Philip Koch’s Picco, which was presented in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and is vying for the Camera d'Or, is the director’s final-year graduate film from Munich Film School. It nonetheless...  

20/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight/Ger

Forbidden games in Duffy’s All Good Children

Irish director Alicia Duffy, a protégé of the Cannes Film Festival (her Cinéfondation residency in 2002 resulted in the short The Most Beautiful Man in the World, in official selection in 2003),...  

19/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

Dream death of angels in Young Girls In Black

In Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Young Girls In Black, the protagonists are not gloomy because they think it’s fashionable, this is clear right from the film’s opening moments. They’re mourning their lost...  

19/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

Boe back with cliff-hanging melodrama Everything Will Be Fine

Hastily labelled “the next Lars von Trier” after the Golden Camera and the Prix Regards Jeune for best first feature went to his Reconstruction at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Danish filmmaker...  

18/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

Illegal moves Croisette audience

The Directors’ Fortnight is today presenting Belgian director Olivier Masset-Depasse’s second feature Illegal. Tania, a Russian illegal immigrant, has been living in Belgium for eight years with...  

18/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

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