The Directors’ Fortnight, the Cannes film festival independent sidebar focused on cutting-edge, auteur cinema, has unveiled its 2025 lineup. Launched by the French Directors’ Guild in 1969 in the wake ...

Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The President’s Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice audience award. New York-based Hadi has tapped into his own ...

Directors’ Fortnight, the independent selection running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, has added Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid‘s “Yes” to its 2025 lineup. “Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ...

Eighteen features and 10 short films will be in the lineup of the independent Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced at a press conference on Tuesday ...

Directors’ Fortnight will open its 57th edition next month with Enzo, written and developed by late Cannes d’Or winner Laurent Cantet before his death last April and directed by friend and ...

The Directors' Fortnight, the Cannes film festival independent sidebar focused on cutting-edge, auteur cinema, has unveiled its 2025 lineup. Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo's French drama Enzo will ...