All France articles – Page 79
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News
Cannes festival president offers foreign travel update
Pierre Lescure shared the latest details at a press conference revealing the festival’s 2021 line-up.
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Features
Cannes 2021 line-up: the key talking points
A new section, Covid requirements and little change on diversity.
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Films Boutique boards Cannes Competition title ‘Lingui, The Sacred Bonds’ (exclusive)
The film is a drama about abortion in a country where it is illegal.
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Indie Sales boards Un Certain Regard title ‘Playground’, releases first image (exclusive)
Director Laura Wandel’s Foreign Bodies played in the short film section of Official Selection in 2014.
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Priscilla Ross Smith launches genre film sales agency The Coven (exclusive)
Dark Blood, Unearth on sales roster.
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Reviews
‘The Day Today’: Rotterdam Review
A windowed grandmother uses near-future technology to bring her husband back from the dead
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Cristian Mungiu to preside over Cannes Critics’ Week jury
Parallel section devoted to first and second features and shorts by emerging filmmakers will announce selection on June 7.
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Marché’s Pre-Cannes Screenings to showcase around 500 films
Online event running June 21 to 25 is aimed at buyers and festival programmers only.
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Wild Bunch International, Capricci unite on genre company Wild West
The new company will focus on French genre feature films and series.
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Cannes announces new head of press, as predecessor leaves for Netflix France
The new head of press will hit ground running to oversee Official Selection press conference on Thursday (June 3).
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Locarno to fete Italian cinematographer Dante Spinotti
Swiss festival will screen Michael Mann’s The Insider and Heat for which Spinotti was Oscar-nominated.
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New French Covid-19 travel restrictions hit UK industry Cannes plans
Visitors to France from the UK will be required to self-isolate for seven days as of May 31.
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Marvel Studios’ Victoria Alonso to join Annecy’s Women In Animation Summit
This year’s conference will focus on the business case for diversity.
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Frederick Wiseman to be honoured with Directors’ Fortnight Carrosse d’Or
Parallel Cannes section will unveil full 2021 line-up on June 8.
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Amazon takes UK-Ireland on English-language ‘Call My Agent!’ remake
Kelly Macdonald, Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams join cast.
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Diaphana acquires French rights to Annecy contender ‘My Sunny Maad’ (exclusive)
Diaphana Distribution has acquired French rights for the film and is planning a release for the first quarter of 2022.
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Annecy unveils main feature competition selections for hybrid 2021 edition
Recent winners of prestigious Cristal award include I Lost My Body and My Life As A Courgette.
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French audiences flock back to cinemas on first day of reopening
France’s 2,045 cinema had been shut since last October due to a second wave of Covid-19.
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Cannes Film Festival, Marché guests will require masks and digital health passes to attend
The festival and market have unveiled the first details of its Covid-19 health and safety protocols.
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France pledges almost $100m in extra state support for cinema sector
The French government has given €11bn ($13bn) in extra state support to the country’s hard-hit cultural sector since the beginning of the pandemic.