Cannes
Cannes Investors Circle returns with eight international film projects at Marché du Film
April 8, 2026
The fourth edition of the Cannes Investors Circle will present eight feature film projects to private investors during the Marché du Film in May, expanding a platform that links filmmakers with global private capital at the Festival de Cannes. In a press statement, Cannes says t...
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No box office gold for Palme d’Or winners
May 31, 2025
Over the last six years, the Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the world’s oldest and most popular film festival, has not only honoured artistic talent in filmmaking but also offered an intriguing window into how audiences around the world react to da...
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Debut film by Diego Céspedes named best film in Un Certain Regard at Cannes
May 24, 2025
Maintaining its focus on first-time filmmakers and global narratives, the jury awarded the Best Feature Film in Un Certain Regard category to The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, directed by Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes. In a press statement, the organisers of the Cannes Fil...
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Juhi Vyas and Mohini Sharma spotlight climate crisis at Cannes Festival
May 21, 2025
Two Indian changemakers turned heads at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, not with sequins or celebrity, but with purpose. According to a press statement, issued by environmental activist organisation Greenpeace, Juhi Vyas, 1st Runner-Up, Mrs India 2022 and Mohini Sharma, Founder of...
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Cannes Film Festival unveils 2024 Official Selection
April 12, 2024
The Cannes International Film Festival has announced the selection of films for the 77th Cannes Film Festival which opens May 14 and runs through May 25. In a press statement, the organisers say that Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, which is about former President of United States ...
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Cannes 2024: Xavier Dolan named Un Certain Regard Jury President
March 4, 2024
Xavier Dolan a self-taught artist-writer, and Director, who made his debut at the age of 19 with ‘I Killed My Mother’ is officially the Jury President of Un Certain Regard segment of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. According to a press statement by Cannes Film Festival, Dolan,...
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From classical to contemporary: Leading modern Bengali film directors
September 18, 2021
Bengali films perhaps first made a mark globally when Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955) became critically acclaimed and won several awards, both local and international, including the prestigious Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The feat inspired ...
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The new age of Indian documentaries
July 30, 2021
Google defines, a documentary to be “a film or television or radio programme that provides a factual report on a particular subject,” but Manan Kathuria, a 21-year-old aspiring documentarian describes it as “an art of storytelling which exhibits what’s actually there, the...
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Indian short film wins Cannes Nespresso Talents award
May 23, 2019
This year’s Cannes has seen no official entry from India but a few Indian filmmakers are making India proud at the side events.
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French-Swiss director to head Camera d’Or Jury at Cannes 2018
March 28, 2018
As the countdown to the prestigious film festival is nearing, award-winning filmmaker Ursula Meier will be heading the Camera d’Or Jury at Cannes along with six contemporaries.
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India swap objectives at Cannes Film Festival
May 15, 2017
The 70th edition of Cannes Film Festival is set for a curtain raiser in less than 48 hours; the stories that would keep an Indian film aficionado hooked are few but relevant.
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Dali and Tagore inspires Indian filmmaker to Cannes
April 12, 2017
After a brief yet enterprising run in some of the prestigious film festivals around the world, a Bengali film is set to make its presence felt at the Festival de Cannes (Marche du film) this year.
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