The international Festival de Cannes is one of the world's most widely publicized events and certainly the most important film festival in terms of worldwide impact.
What is the mission of the Festival de Cannes?
In order to achieve this level of longevity, the Festival de Cannes has remained faithful to its founding purpose: to draw attention to and raise the profile of films, with the aim of contributing towards the development of cinema, boosting the film industry worldwide and celebrating cinema at an international level. And to this day, this profession of faith constitutes the first article of the Festival regulations.
How the Festival’s maintains is international dimension?
Every year, the Festival invites artists from all over the world to give their own interpretation of the world of today and tomorrow, creating a world map of cinema. In 2019, the 57 films in the Official Selection were produced by 35 different countries.
Accredited professionals come from all around the world as well (170 countries were represented in 2019) and there is international coverage of the event in the media.
In addition, the Festival de Cannes offers filmmaking countries the chance to showcase the richness of their cinema in the Village International, which hosts an increasing number of countries every year - nearly a hundred in 2019. It’s a virtuous circle: as long as the Festival leads the way, everybody wants to be at Cannes!
The Inventor:
Robert RIPPBERGER, producer, and Ilan URROZ, executive producer, will be at Cannes to present the new feature film The Inventor directed by Jim CAPOBIANCO
