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2026 Cannes Film Festival - Palais des Festivals

Cannes 2026: Strong Films, Thin Buzz and a Market Finding New Footing

A strong competition without a consensus breakout, a Marché reshaped by private capital, and a Hollywood no-show that raised uncomfortable questions about the festival’s global reach. The 79th Cannes Film Festival closed on May 23 the way it opened — with defiance. No major Hollywood studio tentpole…

2026 Cannes Film Festival

As Hollywood Pulls Back, Cannes Doubles Down

There is a quality to the light along the Croisette in May that no other film festival can replicate or claim. It falls at a particular angle across the Palais des Festivals — that concrete monolith critics have spent decades mocking and cinephiles have spent decades loving — and transforms even the…

Thierry Fre?maux - Cannes Film Festival 2025

Thierry Frémaux Is Keeping Cannes Focused on the Big Screen

Thierry Frémaux never strolls into a room. Rather, the Director of the Cannes Film Festival, seems to bound into the room, usually a packed auditorium at the Palais des Festivals, as if running behind schedule, delayed by whatever previously scheduled rendezvous he has just departed. Such was the ca…

Thierry Fre?maux and Iris Knobloch - Cannes Film Festival 2024

Cannes Film Festival Faces Potential Labor Strike and #MeToo Revelations

The Cannes Film Festival which officially kicks off 14 May 2024 is facing both the possibility of a strike by hundreds of the event’s freelance workers during its 77th edition, as well as the release of a report accusing high profile members of the country’s film industry of sexual misco…

2021 Cannes Film Festival - Awards Ceremony

No Spoilers At The 74th Annual Cannes Film Festival

It seems fitting that in a year when many were skeptical the Cannes Film Festival could even take place successfully that it should end with its competition jury president, filmmaker Spike Lee, expediting the awards ceremony by erroneously announcing the event’s top prize winner before a…

2021 Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Conquers COVID Challenge

They could have easily canceled this year’s event and nobody would have faulted them at all. Some may have even thanked them; seeing it as the sensible thing to do. There are still those that wish they had. Instead, the organizers of the Cannes Film Festival postponed this year’s 12-day…

Thierry Frémaux at the Special 2020 Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival Raises The Bar With 2021 Lineup

More than a year after the pandemic forced the cancellation of the the 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival in May of 2020, its programmers announced the official selections for the 2021 event. Earlier this year the festival abandoned its usual May dates on the calendar, postponing the event until July,…

2018 Cannes Film Festival Jury

Though Absent, Netflix Is Still A Big Presence In Cannes

As much as the question over whether films made by Netflix are “legitimate” movies if they aren’t released in cinemas was front and center at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, this year it seems the topic is being raised less overtly. Maybe that’s because after facing criticism for selecting two Net…

Christie Partnership With Cannes Film Festival

How Christie, Dolby and the CST Pull Off the Cannes Film Festival Each Year

Right about now an elite team of half a dozen cinema technicians from Christie are nearly complete undoing all of the hard work they concluded earlier this month when they completed preparations for the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival. Held for two weeks each May in the French Riviera resort town o…

2014 Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival Overcomes Its Digital Dilemma

As the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival came to a close last week, artistic director Thierry Fremaux scheduled a last minute press conference so that journalists from around the world could speak with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. The director was visiting the festival for a 20th anniversary screenin…