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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Le quattro volte by Frammartino blends poetry and reality

There is a cinematic territory where the documentary borders on fiction and poetry seeps into reality, a land that certain filmmakers stake out to “rethink filmmaking and push the medium’s...  

17/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

David against Goliath in Cleveland Vs. Wall Street

The setting is Ohio, winter 2008-2009. A total of 20,000 families have been evicted and the poor neighbourhoods of East Cleveland are full of empty, boarded-up houses: the storm of the subprime...  

16/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

Order and subversion in Diego Lerman's Invisible Eye

Buenos Aires, 1982: the end of the dictatorial regime. A high school as a metaphoric microcosm for order and emerging subversion. A historic film in which History is left off-screen, but is...  

15/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

Teenage emotional turmoil in Love Like Poison

A small Breton village marked by the stamp of Catholicism and a 14-year-old girl at that uncertain threshold between childhood and womanhood: this is the subject tackled with great sensitivity by...  

14/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight/FR

Little Baby Jesus of Flandr: In praise of faith

After last year’s hit The Misfortunates, it is now up to 24-year old director Gust Van den Berghe to defend the vitality of new Flemish cinema at the 42nd Directors’ Fortnight. Although presented...  

14/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

Africa, music and life in magical Benda Bilili!

Joie de vivre and the emergence of artistic talent irrespective of world location were the keynotes at the opening of the Directors’ Fortnight, which today unveiled Renaud Barre and Florent de la...  

13/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight/FR

Twelve European films in 22-strong line-up

With the emphasis on discovering new talents, the 42nd Directors’ Fortnight, which will run from May 13-23 at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, unveiled its selection at midday today in Paris. It...  

20/04/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

Varda to receive Carrosse d’Or

The Society of Film Directors (SRF) will award the Carrosse d’Or (“Golden Coach”) to French director Agnès Varda at the opening evening of the 42nd Directors’ Fortnight, which will run from May...  

08/04/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Directors’ Fortnight

An unusual evening in Navidad

After the little girl taken in by travelling performers in La Pivellina and the French title The Wolberg Family, the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight continues to explore the theme of family, through...  

22/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Directors’ Fortnight

Ropert’s Wolberg Family warmly received

The Wolberg Family, the debut feature by Axelle Ropert, recent darling of the Directors’ Fortnight (where she previously presented her medium-length film Purple Star and a film by Serge Bozon that...  

21/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Directors’ Fortnight

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