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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Dans Paris: My brother

Romantically inclined French cinema is out in force at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight, with films by Emmanuel Mouret, Claire Simon and Jean-Claude Brisseau, and now a film by Christophe Honoré,...  

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

East of Bucarest: Little miseries and big questions

The screening of Was It or Was It Not? in the Directors’ Fortnight was punctuated by giggles this morning. With limited financial and technical resources, young Romanian director Corneliu...  

24/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight | RO

Transe: A nightmarish Europe

Teresa Villaverde is no stranger to major festivals. Her first feature film, Alex, was selected at Berlin in the Forum of Young Cinema in 1991. Three years later, Two Brothers, My Sister put her...  

23/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight | PT

Ça brûle: Kindling romantic fiction

After A Foreign Body, her first feature, presented in Director’s Fortnight in 1997, Claire Simon went down the documentary route with 800 kms de différence – Romance (2001), followed by Mimi...  

23/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight | Fra

Changement d’adresse brings a breath of fresh air to the Croisette

In the spacious but packed Noga theatre, filmmaker Emmanuel Mouret and her troupe – including actors Frédérique Bel, Fanny Valette, Dany Brillant and Ariane Ascaride – received a standing ovation...  

22/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight | FR

Azur et Asmar enchants audiences

Michel Ocelot’s new animated film, Azur et Asmar, received a standing ovation this afternoon at its screening in the Directors’ Fortnight. The film’s magic enchanted the 250 children invited to...  

21/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’Fortnight | Fran

Applause for Kim Rossi Stuart

This morning, the screening of Along the Ridge (Anche libero va bene) at the Directors' Fortnight ended with a warm round of applause. Yesterday, this very moving feature, which marks the...  

20/05/2006 | Cannes/Directors' Fortnight | Italy

The disconcerting world of Princess

The Directors’ Fortnight will open this afternoon with the screening of the intriguing Danish film Princess, the debut feature by Anders Morgenthaler on a topic that is anything but conventional....  

18/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight | Denmark

European titles out in force, again

With 13 productions and two co-productions of the 22 features selected, European titles have the lion’s share of the 38th Director’s Fortnight (May 18-28), unveiled this afternoon in Paris. The...  

02/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Directors’ Fortnight

Alice, in the land despair

In competition to the Camera d'Or, Alice by Marco Martins, is an intense portrait of loss and hope with outstanding performances by two young talents: Nuno Lopes and Beatriz Batarda (Le Rivages...  

19/05/2005 | Cannes 2005 | Directors’ Fortnight

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