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The Cannes Film Festival returns in July with a rich official selection competing for the Palme d'Or after the Covid pandemic robbed the world's leading film festival of its 2020 edition. Here are the 24 films competing from July 5 to 17 for the prestigious prize awarded by a jury headed by US di

The ever-rumbling question of who will be allowed to travel to the Cannes Film Festival has taken another major — and positive — turn, with fresh reports stating that France will now allow fully vaccinated travelers from the U.K. and U.S. to enter the country without being forced to self-isolate on arrival. The Times reported […]

The Cannes Film Festival on Thursday unveiled a lineup of films from big-name auteurs —...

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news Sean Penn film leads Cannes festival line-up © Getty Images Sean Penn has directed Flag Day, which he will also star in alongside Josh Brolin and Miles Teller A new film directed by Sean Penn is among the movies set to premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The event will take place in person next month, but with strict Covid safety measures in place for attendees. Flag Day, which Penn also stars in alongside Josh Brolin, is an adaptation of the book by Jennifer Vogel. It tells the ...

The British pavilion will not be on the Croisette: it is going online. A pretty downbeat post-Brexit Cannes from the flag-wavers’ point of view. Those delegates who are allowed in will have to take a test every 48 hours, while social distancing rules will apply, socialising will be restricted, and festival director Thierry Frémaux told us that he would not be kissing directors on the steps of the Palais – although “there will be dinners!” There will also be some of the familiar big Can...

The Cannes International Film Festival has unveiled the films that will screen during its 74th edition, an in-person event set to run in the Mediterranean resort town July 6-17. Pierre Lescure, president of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, general delegate, announced the Cannes 2021 lineup Thursday from the UGC Normandie theater in Paris. […]

Flag Day is to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It was announced on Thursday that Penn’s film, which stars his daughter Dylan alongside himself, Josh Brolin, and Miles Teller, has been selected for the In Competition section. Stiff competition The movie, which follows the daughter of a con artist who struggles to come to terms with her father’s past, will compete against 23 others, including movies from past Palme d’Or winners Jacques Audiard ( Les Olympiades...

Catherine Corsini’s La Fracture. The 2019 lineup also included four films directed by women, though there were only 21 films in competition at that time. Across the festival’s overall Official Selection, however, there are films helmed by 28 women, per Deadline, a step forward for gender parity at Cannes.  Spike Lee, who was tapped to be the jury president for the 2020 festival, will preside over the jury this year. The jury is also set to present Jodie Foster with an honorary Palme d’...

Films competing for Cannes Palme d´Or Entertainment Fri, Jun 04, 2021 CANNES: The Cannes Film Festival returns in July with a rich official selection competing for the Palme d´Or after the Covid pandemic robbed the world´s leading film festival of its 2020 edition. Here are the 24 films competing from July 5 to 17 for the prestigious prize awarded by a jury headed by US director Spike Lee. - ´Annette´ by Leos Carax, France - Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard star as a glamourous celebrity ...