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Cannes seen from Le Suquet. The Cannes Film Festival (/ k æ n /; French: Festival de Cannes [fɛstival də kan]), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.
The Cannes Film Festival allocates a €15,000 grant for the winner of the First Prize, €11,250 for the winner of the Second Prize and €7,500 for the winner of the Third Prize. The following 18 shorts (14 live-action and 4 animated films) were selected from among the 2,263 films submitted by schools from all over the world: [ 21 ]
The Cannes Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy “Second Act” starring Lea Seydoux and Vincent Lindon. The 77th edition runs May 15-25.
The 76th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 16 to 27 May 2023. [1] Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund served as jury president. [2] With the French film Anatomy of a Fall winning the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, [3] Justine Triet became the third female director to achieve the prize, after Jane Campion in 1993, and Julia Ducournau in 2021.
42 years – Jean-Luc Godard's first film in official selection was How's it going, screened in the section Perspectives du Cinéma Français in 1976. He won his first and only Palme d'Or for The Image Book in 2018, which also marked the first time in the history of the festival that a director was awarded with a Palme d'Or Spéciale.
Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic Kevin Costner was in full dad mode at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of his new movie, Horizon: An American Saga. Costner, 69, posed on the red carpet with five ...
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The first Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built in 1949 to host the Cannes Film Festival. The original building was located on the boulevard of Promenade de la Croisette, on the present site of the JW Marriott Cannes. That building previously hosted the 4th and 6th Eurovision Song Contests in 1959 and 1961, respectively.