The independent festival sidebar, organized by the French Directors' Guild, runs May 14-24. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The Directors’ Fortnight, the Cannes film festival independent ...

The newcomer’s tragicomic debut, inspired by his childhood under Saddam Hussein, earns raves and the only audience prize across all Cannes sections. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Iraqi ...

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 ...

Hailed by Variety as a “warm and heart-tugging tale,” Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake,” Iraq’s first film selected for Cannes, has won the Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice prize, the first ...

Belgian Valéry Carnoy’s “Wild Foxes” (“La Danse des renards”) has won this year’s Europa Cinemas Cannes Label for best European Film at the 2025 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Announced Thursday by ...

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 ...

Cannes parallel section Directors’ Fortnight has added Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s Yes! (Ken!) to its 2025 selection. Set in the aftermath of the October 7, Hamas attacks on Israel, the film ...

The Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar competition has revealed the poster for its upcoming 2025 edition, featuring a painting by one of cinema’s boundary-obliterating cult heroes.

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 ...