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Directors’ Fortnight


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

Review: Eephus

Review: Eephus

CANNES 2024: Carson Lund’s debut feature takes us out to the ball game, with far more melancholic results than expected  

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

Review: Savanna and the Mountain

Review: Savanna and the Mountain

CANNES 2024: Paulo Carneiro takes us to Covas do Barroso in Portugal for a truly captivating portrait of the local community’s fight against lithium mining  

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

Review: Mongrel

Review: Mongrel

CANNES 2024: Chiang Wei Liang’s focused debut inspects migrant labour and organised crime in provincial Taiwan  

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

Thierry de Peretti • Director of In His Own Image

Interview: Thierry de Peretti • Director of In His Own Image

"Film is an object that moves according to who is watching it"

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker deciphers his fascinating portrait of a woman and a group of friends caught up in the whirlwind of the Corsican nationalist movement  

19/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Visiting Hours

Review: Visiting Hours

CANNES 2024: Patricia Mazuy explores an unlikely friendship between two women from very different social classes, played brilliantly by Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Paulo Carneiro • Director of Savanna and the Mountain

Interview: Paulo Carneiro • Director of Savanna and the Mountain

“Since I don't believe in conventional documentary anyway, I started to write the story as a fiction”

CANNES 2024: The Portuguese helmer breaks down his aesthetic concept and how he worked with the protagonists of his documentary-fiction hybrid  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Hala Elkoussy • Director of East of Noon

Interview: Hala Elkoussy • Director of East of Noon

“Art has to be pertinent”

CANNES 2024: The visual artist-turned-director brings a satirical bite to the festival, as she shows generations that clash, hoping for a better life  

17/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: In His Own Image

Review: In His Own Image

CANNES 2024: Thierry de Peretti takes a masterful look at the tumultuous history of Corsican nationalism from the perspective of ruthless innocence, love and friendship  

16/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed

Review: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed

CANNES 2024: Hernán Rosselli presents a hypnotic and technically inventive tale of memory, family secrets, and what lies between the lines in contemporary Buenos Aires  

16/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: This Life of Mine

Review: This Life of Mine

CANNES 2024: Agnès Jaoui carries on her shoulders the last film by the late Sophie Fillières, a tragicomedy emblematic of the director's poetic singularity on a human scale  

15/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

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