“In the Shadow of Women” to open Cannes’s Directors’ Fortnight April 16, 2015 - 13:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival will open with a screening of director Philippe Garrel’s “In the Shadow of Women”, TheWrap reports. The film, for which Wild Bunch is handling international sales, follows a couple of low-budget documentary filmmakers whose relationship unravels due to their own romantic affairs. Clotilde Courau, Lena Paugam and Stanislas Merhar star. The full lineup for the the Directors’ Fortnight, an event independent of the Cannes Film Festival and organized by Société des Réalisateurs de Films, will be announced on April 21. The annual event first launched in 1969 and has showcased films from directors including Werner Herzog, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Haneke, Sofia Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola, to name a few. The Directors’ Fortnight is not a competitive program, and specifically caters to non-professional Cannes audiences.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Erdogan wants “realistic road map” for relations with Armenia  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a “new realistic road map” for relations with Armenia.Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements.Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of ArmeniaHenrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan. |
