All Directors' Fortnight articles
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NewsRed Sea, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title ‘East Of Noon’ marks first sales (exclusive)
Hana Elkoussy’s film follows a musician rebelling against his elders.
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NewsDirectors’ Fortnight comedy drama ‘Eephus’ acquired for French release (exclusive)
Carson Lund’s debut feature will be released theatrically at the start of 2025.
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News‘Universal Language’ wins inaugural Cannes Directors’ Fortnight audience award
The late Sophie Fillieres’ final feature ‘This Life Of Mine’ won the SACD prize for best French film.
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News‘The Other Way Around’ wins Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Europa Cinemas prize
Second year in a row that a Spanish film has won the award.
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Reviews‘To A Land Unknown’: Cannes Review
Two Palestinian refugees are stranded in Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s raw, resonant drama
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Reviews‘East Of Noon’: Cannes Review
Surrealist-tinged Egyptian fable is Hala Elkoussy’s distinctive follow-up to ‘Cactus Flower’
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Reviews‘Eat The Night’: Cannes Review
Three French teens juggle edgy real-life with gaming fantasy in this disappointing thriller from the ‘Jessica Forever’ team
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Reviews‘The Village Next To Paradise’: Cannes Review
A family attempts to follow their dreams on the coast of Somalia in this Un Certain Regard debut
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Reviews‘The Other Way Around’: Cannes Review
Jonas Trueba’s first film in Cannes follows a young Spanish couple who decide to celebrate their break-up
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Reviews‘Mongrel’: Cannes Review
An undocumented Thai man works as a caregiver in this sobering Directors Fortnight debut set in Taiwan
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Reviews‘The Falling Sky’: Cannes Review
Singular, uncompromising documentary details the threat posed to the Indigenous tribes of Brazil
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Reviews‘Sister Midnight’: Cannes Review
Radhika Apte is sensational as a newly-married woman who discovers her wild side in this dark Mumbai-set comedy
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Reviews‘Eephus’: Cannes Review
Two local, middle-aged baseball teams play one final game in this poignant slice of Americana
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Reviews‘Desert Of Namibia’: Cannes Review
A young Japanese woman struggles with her claustrophobic Tokyo life in this Directors’ Fortnight title
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Reviews‘Savanna And The Mountain’: Cannes Review
Hybrid documentary becomes part of the protest as villagers in rural Portugal fight to save their way of life
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Reviews‘Visiting Hours’: Cannes Review
Isabelle Huppert stars in Patricia Mazuy’s offbeat drama which charts an unlikely friendship between two women
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Reviews‘Universal Language’: Cannes Review
Iranian culture is transposed onto Winnipeg in this conceptual Canadian comedy
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Reviews‘Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point’: Cannes Review
Michael Cera joins an ensemble cast for this probing Italian-American family drama set in a Long Island home
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Reviews‘The Hyperboreans’: Cannes Review
Chilean provocateurs Cristobal Leon and Joaquin Cocina turn the full force of their craft to a reverie involving right-wing extremist Miguel Serrano
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Reviews‘In His Own Image’: Cannes Review
Corsica’s fight for independence is told through the experiences of a young photographer in this dry drama