Good, marketable cinema usually comes from the same continents over and over again. Countries in those continents have support structures that ensure that out of the lot some film school graduates are going to become great filmmakers. The reverse of this seems to be true, too. People desirous of becoming filmmakers but who have the misfortune of being born in countries such as Laos, Nigeria or North Korea and who have

(part of a multi-article series about the 2014 Fabrique des […]

(part of a multi-article series about the 2014 Fabrique des […]

(part of a multi-article series about the 2014 Fabrique des […]

(part of a multi-article series about the 2014 Fabrique des […]

(part of a multi-article series about the 2014 Fabrique des […]

(part of a multi-article series about the 2014 Fabrique des […]

Two directors from Russia are bringing their films to Cannes this year. One, Andrey Zvyagintsev, will be competing, while the other, Sergei Loznitsa, will get to show his film in one of the special, non-competitive sections. One of the films that’s being talked about in anticipation of the Cannes Festival's launch next week year is Zviagintsev’s

Kiwi helmer Jane Campion will preside over this year's jury, as was previously announced by the Cannes Festival. The list of her co-jurors was released today, showing a cosmopolitan, if homogeneous (professionally speaking) mix of actors and directors hailing from the U.S., France, China, Korea, Denmark, Iran, France and Mexico. They form a compelling international cohort representative of countries in which

Screen Comment has an official poster for Cannes (and we […]