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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Little Ireland

Funny, moving and tragic, Garage, the second feature collaboration between director Lenny Abrahamson and scriptwriter Mark O'Holloran – after the award-winning Adam & Paul (see news) – was...  

19/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Directors Fortnight

Arbid and male desire

"Not a provoking, but an honest film" was how director Danielle Arbid described Un Homme Perdu last night at the film’s Directors' Fortnight screening. After the Lebanese civil war seen from the...  

19/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Directors Fortnight/France

Homage to a lost poet

Ian Curtis, front man of the post-punk group Joy Division, was a poet. The beautiful lyrics of his songs prove that. He was a damned poet, a kind of Mallarmé or Rimbaud of the late 1970s and, like...  

17/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Directors' Fortnight/UK

From Cape Verde to Chinese Lisbon, a focus on short films

Portuguese director Pedro Costa will be back at Cannes with his latest work, Tarrafal, screening in the festival's sidebar section Directors' Fortnight. The title is part of the collective film O...  

08/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Directors' Fortnight/Portugal

Selection: Europe leads the way

With 16 (co-)productions, European cinema clearly dominates the programme of 23 features selected for the 39th Directors’ Fortnight, running from May 17-27 parallel to the 60th Cannes Film...  

03/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Directors’ Fortnight

British rock biopic Control to open Fortnight

British-made feature Control by Dutch director Anton Corbijn will open the 39th Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (May 17-27). Starring Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson, Joe Anderson and...  

25/04/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Directors’ Fortnight

Morel’s Après Lui to compete in Cannes sidebar

The Cannes Film Festival (May 18-28) sidebar section Directors’ Fortnight – whose full programme of its 39th edition (May 17-27) will be unveiled at a press conference on May 3 – has announced the...  

18/04/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Directors Fortnight

White Palms: The freedom of movement

Screened in the Directors’ Fortnight, White Palms was the big winner at this year’s Hungarian Film Week (see news). Szablocs Hadju’s film won awards for Best Actor, Best Photography, Best...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight | HU

Along the Ridge wins Prix Art et Essai

The debut feature by Italy’s Kim Rossi Stuart, Along the Ridge, was today awarded the Prix Art et Essai by the CICAE (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai) in the Directors’...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight

Congorama: A Belgian father, Congolese son, and a light-hearted identity crisis

In recent days, Cannes audiences and critics have greeted Congorama, this evening’s closing film of the Directors’ Fortnight, with delight. Although Philippe Falardeau and Luc Déry, respectively...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight | BE

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