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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Review: The Other Way Around

Review: The Other Way Around

CANNES 2024: Jonás Trueba makes another solid and watchable romantic film by zooming in on a couple celebrating their break-up with a divorce party  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel • Directors of Eat The Night

Interview: Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel • Directors of Eat The Night

"The characters fight with their own means against this ambient depression which assails an entire era"

CANNES 2024: The French filmmakers talk about their second feature, a daring hybrid work with a whiff of the end of the world about it  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

Interview: Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

“I’m always intrigued by what it means to have no place where you belong”

CANNES 2024: The Palestinian-Danish director takes on the melancholy of exile as two Palestinian cousins get stranded in Greece  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Universal Language and The Other Way Around win prizes in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

Universal Language and The Other Way Around win prizes in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

CANNES 2024: The film by Canada’s Matthew Rankin has scooped the section’s inaugural Audience Award, while Jonas Trueba’s movie pocketed the Europa Cinemas Label  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Sister Midnight

Review: Sister Midnight

CANNES 2024: The feature debut by London-based writer-director Karan Kandhari presents marital roles through slapstick and horror-comedy tropes  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: East of Noon

Review: East of Noon

CANNES 2024: In her sophomore feature, Hala Elkoussy crafts a chaotic folktale set in a bizarre theatre company ruled by a childish tyrant  

22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Ghost Cat Anzu

Review: Ghost Cat Anzu

CANNES 2024: Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita’s film is a visual feast for fans of Japanese animation, even if the story falls short of expectations  

22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Eat The Night

Review: Eat The Night

CANNES 2024: Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel launch into a bold and highly ambitious film about youth, the virtual and reality, but the piece as a whole doesn't quite live up to its promise  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Falling Sky

Review: The Falling Sky

CANNES 2024: Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s documentary focuses on the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon and their struggle to protect their home  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Visiting Hours

Interview: Patricia Mazuy • Director of Visiting Hours

"We’re not familiar with the world of visiting rooms, where women are together but all alone"

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker unpicks her film exploring the feelings which unfold between a rich upper-class woman and a working-class woman whose husbands are both in prison  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

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