All Directors' Fortnight articles
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NewsFirst Iraqi film to play at Cannes wins Directors’ Fortnight audience award
‘The President’s Cake’ takes the only audience award on offer across the whole festival.
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Reviews‘Yes’ review: Nadav Lapid’s post-October 7 satire is loudly divisive
Ariel Bronz stars as a musician tasked with composing a new Israeli national anthem
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NewsUkrainian team of Cannes title ‘Militantropos’ make red carpet mirror action
Directors Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi and Yelizaveta Smit and colleagues wore outfits with mirrors affixed.
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Reviews‘The Girls We Want’ review: Inner-city kids fumble in Marseille-set debut
The return of a prodigal daughter upsets the balance in Prïncia Car’s collaborative Directors Fortnight title
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Reviews‘Girl On Edge’ review: Friendship turns to rivalry in Chinese figure skating drama
Director Zhou Jinghao’s debut bows in Directors Fortnight
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Reviews‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Observational documentary starts in 2022, taking a Wiseman-like approach to a country at war
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Reviews‘Peak Everything’ review: Anne Emond’s bilingual romance takes some outlandish detours
Canadian director presents a romantic comedy, disaster movie, family drama and eco-horror rolled into one
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Reviews‘Dangerous Animals’ review: Sean Byrne’s Australian sharksploitation lacks real bite
Jai Courtney and Hassie Harrison star in this messy genre mash-up
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Reviews‘Mirrors No. 3’ review: Rich study of trauma and grief unfolds in the German countryside
Christian Petzold’s fourth collaboration with actor Paula Beer is small but mighty
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Reviews‘Wild Foxes’ review: Samuel Kircher lands a punch in school boxing drama
Kircher headlines Valery Carnoy’s thoughtful Directors’ Fortnight debut
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Reviews‘Her Will Be Done’ review: A young woman faces an ancient evil in rural French horror
Polish actor Maria Wrobel impresses in Julia Kowalski’s atmospheric second feature
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Reviews‘The President’s Cake review’: Quinzaine crowd-pleaser is set in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
A young girl, a scene-stealing cockerel and a culinary challenge fuel Hasan Hadi’s winning 1990s-set story
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Reviews‘Brand New Landscape’ review: Debut explores a Tokyo family in crisis
Kenichi Endo stars in Yuiga Danzuka’s precise Directors Fortnight drama
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Reviews‘The Girl In The Snow’ review: Louise Hemon turns to drama with a story from her own family’s past
Documentarian’s debut is beautifully based in the Hautes Alpes
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Reviews‘Death Does Not Exist’ review: Animation follows young activists into battle
Felix Dufour-Laperrier’s fourth feature explores the individual impact of violent protest
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Reviews‘Enzo’ review: Directors’ Fortnight opens with Laurent Cantet’s last film, directed by Robin Campillo
A ‘powerful valedictory’ from the late French auteur focuses on an adolescent working on a building side outside Mareseilles
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FeaturesCannes 2025 line-up guide: Directors’ Fortnight titles
Includes films from Robin Campillo, Nadav Lapid, Thomas Ngijol and Christian Petzold.
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NewsGlobal Constellation, WME Independent board sales on Directors’ Fortnight title ‘Lucky Lu’
EXCLUSIVE: Lloyd Lee Choi’s feature debut is based on his Cannes short ‘Same Old’.
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NewsA24 Sundance titles ‘Sorry, Baby’ and ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: ’Sorry, Baby’ is also the closing night film at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
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NewsCannes Directors’ Fortnight title ‘The President’s Cake’ acquired for sales
EXCLUSIVE: Film follows a young girl selected to make a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein.