The 2025 Cannes Festival presented on Tuesday, April 15, the selection of fifteen filmmakers on Tuesday, April 15. In particular, there is the last project of director Laurent Cantet, died in April 2024.
This parallel section of the Cannes competition, dedicated to the discovery of new talents, will open with EnzoLast film in which Laurent Cantet (Between the wallsPalma d’Or 2008) worked before his death. Robin Campillo (120 beats per minute), who worked with him in several films such as screenwriter or editor, then took the reins.
A documentary about the war in Ukraine
In total, ten short and medium -sized films, as well as 18 feature films, appear in the national team. This has a documentary, MilitontroposDirected by Yelyzaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi, which offers images of Ukrainian peoples under the bombing.
“A film without trial, full of compassion, in a population forced to live in a state of war,” said Julien Rejl, general delegate of the fifteen filmmakers, during a press conference.
“Despite wars, censorship or difficulties in accessing financing, filmmakers continue to make movies. Film questions, quite complicated to guarantee prepared speeches,” he added.
A satirical comedy with Laurent Lafitte
Among the first eight feature films, The president’s cake By Hasan Hadi, located in Iraq in the 1990s, described as “a kind of history where children are the heroes” that show in the background the economic misery in which the Iraqis “at that time were submerged.
French side, Anthony Cordier (Gaspard goes to marriage) will present Middle classSatirical comedy in class reports carried by Laurent Lafitte, Ramzy Bedia, Laure Calamy and Elodie Bouchez.
Shooting in Cameroon, Indomitable By Thomas NGijol promises to be an “unexpected portrait” of the Camerounian company, against a police investigation. The humorist also plays the main role.
Source: BFM TV
