Canadian director Matthew Rankin’s Persian and French-language drama Universal Language has won the inaugural Audience Award of Directors’ Fortnight. This is the first official prize launched by ...

Directors’ Fortnight, the independent sidebar competition that runs alongside the Cannes Film Festival, is adding a splash of ...

The independent section, which runs parallel to the main Cannes festival, is organized by the French Directors' Guild. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section ...

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is launching a new People’s Choice audience award at its upcoming edition, running alongside the main festival from May 15-26. The parallel section said the award, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Léa Mysius expertly crafts a queer, witchy movie in her Directors’ Fortnight debut film The Five Devils (Les Cinq Diables ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s first feature The President’s Cake has won the second edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight ...

Directors' Fortnight head Julien Rejl tells IndieWire why the sidebar is never about pleasing "all the major forces at play" and instead offers a springboard for enfants terribles. That same selection ...

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has added Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks to its 58th edition as a Special Screening. First reported by ...

Before awards season gets its annual wrap with the Oscars, the Sundance Film Festival ushers in a new year of movies every January, although it is increasingly less like the tastemaker it once was.