(photo courtesy of the Festival de Cannes)
In December 2016, The Association's Board of Directors Française du Film Festival has renewed its confidence in Pierre Lescure and elected him Chairman of the Festival – place it occupies since July 2014. In this new three-year period will cover the period 2018 al 2020  ensure continuity in the governance of the Festival and associated projects. Next to Pierre Lescure it was also confirmed Thierry

Frémaux as a general delegate to manage the Event. In particular the supervision of the official selection. The titles of the 70th edition, which starts in 3 days were presented in mid-April between thousands of controversy especially in the areas related to Netflix. Of the selection discussed in the next article submission. Here we recall the composition of

various juries that today have been completed with the names, over the Presidents, Also of jurors.

Happy Anniversary!’ There have been controversies for retouching made to the original photo, that he was answered directly affected: It is a manifesto, as well as represent me, It is a dance, a flight. This image has been retouched to accentuate the effect of grace and turn me into a dream. The concern for realism is not an image, and as a convinced feminist, I see no disrespect to female bodies. There are many more important things to discuss in our world. This is just the cinema, lest we forget.

As far as the godmother of the Festival, l'I invite the Cannes Film Festival, was accepted Italian actress Monica Bellucci. The actress' relationship with the Festival de Cannes dates back to 2000, interpreter in the film  Under Suspicion di Stephen Hopkins. He returned to Cannes two years later with the vaporous Irreversible by Gaspar Noé who charmed the Croisette with his memorable controversy. But he was also a member of the Jury in 2006 chaired by Wong Karwai. In subsequent years, He is back in Cannes for the Official Selection with the Blood Blood by Marco Tullio Giordana and Not Looking Back by Marina de Van. In 2014, He is back on the Croisette to present The wonders of Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, which he won the Grand Jury Prize. Interpreter  by prestigious directors such as Bertrand Blier, Danièle Thompson, Francis Ford Coppola, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson, Sam Mendes e Spike Lee. He recently took part in the third season of Twin Peaks by David Lynch, Bellucci also appears in the latest Emir Kusturica's films The Milky Way  where he has outdone herself. Before her the role of Master of Ceremonies had been covered by 'French actor and comedian Laurent Lafitte, for the 69 ° Festival, preceduto da Lambert Wilson e da Audrey Tautou.

chaired by the icon FLAMING SPANISH FILM DIRECTOR AND WRITER OF WORLD FAMOUS PEDRO ALMODÓVAR. These, rispondendo all'invito di Pierre Lescure e Thierry Frémaux, he said: 'I am very happy to celebrate 70 Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival as a prime location. I'm grateful, honored and a little 'overwhelmed. I am aware of the responsibility of being the president of the jury and I hope to be up to the job. I can only tell you that I will devote myself body and soul, to this task, which is both a privilege and a pleasure.’ In his films filled with physicality and with a big heart, a troupe of actors faithfully follows the director and gives life to his wonderfully human characters, including Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Antonio Banderas, Rossy de Palma, Javier Bardem, Javier Cámara, Carmen Maura and Victoria Abril. Under the presidency of the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, FOR THE JURY 70 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

It will consist of eight key figures of the film industry from around the world. Four women and four men that the assistant will in the choice of winners. The director, scriptwriter and producer German Maren ADE, US actress and producer Jessica CHASTAIN, Chinese FAN Bingbing, the actress, screenwriter and French singer Agnès JAOUI, Director, screenwriter and producer Korean PARK Chan-wook, the actor, producer and musician Will SMITH, our great director and screenwriter Paolo SORRENTINO, and finally the French composer Gabriel YARED. We want to dwell on Paolo Sorrentino remembering that all his films except for Youth was a guest of the Cannes Film Festival which is very tied.

chiamato CRISTIAN MUNGIU, former member of the jury chaired by Steven Spielberg in 2013. Director, writer and producer, follows in the footsteps of Naomi Kawase, Abderrahmane Sissako, Abbas Kiarostami e Jane Campion. As a leading member of the Romanian new wave, Cristian Mungiu has a long and distinguished history with the Festival. After winning the Palme with his second feature, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, continued to get awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress for Beyond the Hills and the Best Director award for Baclaureat. The filmography of this socially committed filmmaker has been widely acclaimed by various juries because it offers a vision so clear and understandable of Romanian society, that is mixed in a universal message. His ambitious works using a scalpel to describe human nature and treat it with rare intelligence: a gentle satire on dreams of young Romanians in the post-communist period. “Cristian Mungiu is a member of the glorious Romanian school given by Thierry Fremaux in 2000”, says Gilles Jacob, President of the Cinéfondation. Part of their, the first reaction Mungiu was: The value and originality never reached easy recognition in film. It is even more difficult to recognize the value and originality of very young directors. But the Cinéfondation is known to be able to do just this task. The Cinéfondation has always given to young directors the help and recognition needed early in their careers, so that they can express themselves with courage and find their way. It is a commitment which I am proud to be part of it. The  SHORT FILMS jury & Cinéfondation award prizes to three of the sixteen films made by many students of film schools selected in the Cinéfondation selection. Moreover it awards the Palme d'among 9 short films. Besides the Chairman Cristian MUNGIU are part of the jury French actress Clotilde HESME, The American director and screenwriter Barry JENKINS Director, the other director and screenwriter, and producer Eric Khoo of Singapore and

director, scriptwriter and producer Greek Athina Rachel TSANGARI. Also in the Cinéfondation dress we mention L'ATELIER 2017 which this year hosts for its thirteenth edition and will invite 15 filmmakers whose projects were considered particularly promising. Together with their manufacturers, They will meet potential partners, a necessary step to complete their project and start production of their film. L'Atelier offers its participants access to international co-productions, thus speeding up the completion of the film. L'Atelier has been designed in 2005 to stimulate creative filmmaking and encouraging a new generation of emerging filmmakers. Till now, his 186 projects supported, 145 They have been completed and 14 They are currently in pre-production.

Realisateur e nella Critics Week. Actress and behind a career 25 years and with about 40 films by directors such as Éric Rochant, Laetitia Masson has also worked with big players like Benoît Jacquot, Claude Miller, Nicole Garcia e André Téchiné. E 'was also a member of the jury in Cannes 2001. The first film. "First time. This was true for Woody Allen, Jacques Demy, Truffaut, Scorsese and filmmakers around the world that have changed our lives, He inspired us, It drove our emotions and sometimes gave a sense of direction. And today I am honored and excited to discover new directors. I can already imagine my sense of pride and delight when in the next few years a film seen by me and from my “jury” receive praise and I can say: “I was there … I saw them arrive. At Cannes. At the

Golden Camera … in 2017 ” The Kiberlain was preceded by directors like Wim Wenders, Tim Roth, Abbas Kiarostami and more recently Agnès Varda and Sabine Azéma. Recall also that from 1978 the award went to Jim Jarmusch Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Suzaku di Naomi Kawase (1997), The white ball of Jafar Panahi (1995), Hunger by Steve McQueen (2008) e Beasts of the Southern Wild di Benh Zeitlin (2012). Last year, Houda Benyamina won the Camera d'Or for his film selected Divines  , nella Quinzaine dei film. The members assisting the Kiberlain are the French Elodie BOUCHEZ, actress, William BRAC, director and producer, Thibault CARTEROT, Fabien GAFFEZ (SFCC), writer and critic and the Swiss producer Michel MERKT.

CERTAIN REGARD. Debutante just 17 anni in Dangerous Liaison” Stephen Frears and “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” Terry Gilliam. It has become the muse of Quentin Tarantino, in Pulp Fiction (Palme d'Or winner, 1994) e in Kill Bill (volumes 1 e 2), both presented at the Festival de Cannes. since then, Uma Thurman has worked with many directors, including Andrew Niccol; Woody Allen; Roland Joffé e Ethan Hawke. He 'has been a member of the jury headed by Robert De Niro in 2011. The jury of UN Certain Regard is made, as well as from Thurman, by Egyptian director Mohamed DIAB, French actor Reda KATEB, by Belgian director Joachim LAFOSSE, and the artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Karel OCH

Let us finally to independent side sections., starting from 56 ° edition of the Critics' Week, which honors the Brazilian cinema entrusting the presidency of his jury to one of the most talented directors of his generation, Kleber Mendonça Filho. After his magnificent debut with The bruits de Recife, He triumphed at the last Cannes Film Festival with Aquarium film presented in the Official Competition. E 'was declared the best foreign film French Union of Film Critics. The jury is composed, oltre che Kleber Mendonça Filho, da Diana Bustamante Escobar (producer and artistic director of the Festival of Cartagena, Colombia), Eric Kohn (Director Indiewire, United States of America), Hania Mroué (Director of Cinema Metropolis, Lebanon) e Niels Schneider (actor, winner of the César for Most Promising Actor, France). In the past, the Critics' Week were discovered directors such as Rebecca Zlotowski, Jeff Nichols, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, David Robert Mitchell, and the latest Santiago Mitre (Paulina) Oliver Laxe (Mimosas) e Julia Ducournau (Grave). Recall that La Semaine de la Critique from 2014, he has

supported 10 filmmakers selected as part of the competition of shorts in their transition to feature films. These 10 directors are selected from more than 1.500, by a committee composed of film critics. This selection is based on the idea that through each one of these movies we can see the personality of a director with the ambition to express themselves in a feature film format. I 10 directors are first invited to Cannes to present their short films in La Semaine de la Critique, and then in Paris in December to participate in the Next Step program, during which they are consulted and supported in the development of their films. Quest’anno si prepara la 3ª CLASSE di Next Step. Organized in collaboration with the TorinoFilmLab, Next Step is a week-long training workshop that offers French and international filmmakers the opportunity to take advantage of the advice of consultants (writers, directors and producers) on their screenplays or film ideas and the experience of representatives of the industry (sales agents, distributors) in order to define an appropriate development strategy. It also includes a half-day seminar dedicated to original soundtracks, organized by the Society of Authors, The Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM). It allows filmmakers to participate in a master class to meet six young French composers selected for the purpose talent. At the end of the workshop, 10 filmmakers will have the opportunity to meet the French producers looking for co-productions. Between 19 filmmakers supported in the last two editions of Next Step, eight have actually passed to feature films and are currently in pre-production or in the process of shooting their first feature film.

In this regard we recall the collaboration between Cannes and the Berlinale with four films supported by the World Cinema Fund (WCF) Berlin were invited to participate in the Cannes Film Festival Program: Of Am Not a Witch story by Nyoni (Berlinale Talents alumnus) – Zambia / France / United Kingdom / Germany presentato da Fortnight; Dogs by Marcela Said - Chile / France / Argentina presented by  Critics Week; Aala cuff Ifrit (Beauty and the Dogs) by Kaouther Ben Hania - Tunisia / France / Germany e Meanwhile swallows von Karim Moussaoui - Algeria / France / Germany selected to  In some perspective

Per Fortnight will soffermiamo sul POST 2017 the artistic director Édouard Waintrop defines and encourages us: To be transported by a dream  which it is one of the things that cinema does best, The film takes us out of our environment even if you stop to a harsher reality, when the narrative is dramatic and tragic, just like this poster, built around a superb image of the great Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, Portrait of the world, which for decades she has transported us from paradise to purgatory and back and has transformed our world with the eye. In Italy, He has captured this sign, Dream, the dream, that is a program, quello che per speriamo Fortnight. Come and dream with us … “