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10829 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 13/06/2025.

Prïncia Car • Director of The Girls We Want

Interview: Prïncia Car • Director of The Girls We Want

"When women are together, a kind of sisterhood emerges — one that offers more freedom than masculinity’s frameworks"

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker discusses her first feature, as well as directing an ensemble made of non-professional actors and the connection between gender and resilience  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Directors' Fortnight

Cédric Klapisch • Director of Colours of Time

Interview: Cédric Klapisch • Director of Colours of Time

"When we invent a story, we try to go where no one has gone before, which is the opposite of what AI does, which feeds on what has already been done"

CANNES 2025: The French director talks to us about his generous and accessible film, a family story that questions our relationship with progress and modernity  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Out of Competition

Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

Interview: Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

"I asked myself why, in Egyptian cinema, we don't have any films about non-Egyptians characters"

CANNES 2025: The Egyptian filmmaker talked to us about the origins of his debut feature, centred on an African migrant in Cairo  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Déni Oumar Pitsaev • Director of Imago

Interview: Déni Oumar Pitsaev • Director of Imago

“The most Chechen aspect of the film is the sense of resilience – it’s about facing hardship without losing your humanity”

CANNES 2025: The director discusses the long journey he embarked upon to make his documentary, exploring identity, family, resilience and Chechen culture  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Critics’ Week

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

Interview: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Directors of Young Mothers

"Babies added a documentary element to the shots, a permanent unknown"

CANNES 2025: The Belgian filmmakers talk about their new film, in which they change the narrative paradigm by daring to tell a choral story  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Saeed Roustaee • Director of Woman and Child

Interview: Saeed Roustaee • Director of Woman and Child

"People haven't yet learned to be honest"

CANNES 2025: The Iranian filmmaker deciphers his multi-faceted film centred on a broken woman who opens her eyes, picks herself up and becomes a driving force for change  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo triumphs in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo triumphs in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard

CANNES 2025: Chilean director Diego Céspedes’ film has come out on top; other prizes went to Simón Mesa Soto, Arab and Tarzan Nasser, Cleo Diáran, Frank Dillane and Harry Lighton  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard/Awards

Review: Young Mothers

Review: Young Mothers

CANNES 2025: Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne combine their cinema in the plural, always in touch with reality, its determinisms and its flashes of light  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Alex Lutz • Director of Connemara

Interview: Alex Lutz • Director of Connemara

"Beyond their opposing social backgrounds, what stands in Hélène's and Christophe's way is perhaps above all a question of timing"

CANNES 2025: The French director and actor gives details about his fourth feature film, a social melodrama about the opposing spirits of two lovers  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Cannes Première

The CNC stresses the success of its Aide aux cinémas du monde initiative at Cannes

The CNC stresses the success of its Aide aux cinémas du monde initiative at Cannes

CANNES 2025: A presentation of a selection of case studies showcased the efficacy and wide reach of the French grant  

23/05 | Cannes 2025

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