2015 Cannes Film Festival May 13-24,2015

 

The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held from  May 13-24,2015

The Cannes Film Festival or 'Le Festival International du Film de Cannes' is an annual film festival held in France.
 It derives its name from the place it is held at, Cannes.
This year's festival is scheduled to begin today, on 13th May, and it has been 69 years since the very first one

Joel  and  Ethan Coen have been announced as the Presidents of the Jury for the main competition and it is the first time that two people will chair the jury

Since the Coen brothers will each get a separate vote, they will be joined by seven other jurors to form the customary9-juror panel

French actor Lambert Wilson has been announced as the host for the opening and closing ceremonies.

The festival poster features Hollywood star and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, photographed by David Seymour

.The poster was chosen to pay tribute to Bergman for her contributions to films and who also served as the Jury President at 1973  Cannes Film Festival.As part of the tribute to Bergman, the Swedish documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words will be featured in the Cannes Classics section.

 La Tete haute directed by Emmanuelle Bercot has been announced as the festival's opening film. This will be the second opening film in the festival's history to have been directed by a woman, the first being A Mn in Love by Diane Kurys  which opened the 1987 Cannes Film Festival

The 'In Competition' films are "The Assassin" (Hou Hsiao-hsien) "Carol" (Todd Haynes), "Erran" (Jacques Audiard), "The Lobster" (Yorgos Lanthimo), "Our Little Sister" (Hirokazu Kore-eda), "Louder Than Bombs" (Joachim Trier), "Macbeth" (Justin Kurzel), "Marguerite and Julien" (Valerie Donzelli), "Mon roi" (Maiwenn), "Mountains May Depart" (Jia Zhangke), "My Mother" (Nanni Moretti), "The Sea of Trees" (Gus Van Sant), "Sicario" (Denis Villeneuve), "A Simple Man" (Stephane Brize), "Son of Saul" (Laszlo Nemes), "The Tale of Tales" (Matteo Garrone) and "Youth" (Paolo Sorrentino).

Cannes usually allots three competition slots to French filmmakers, and this year is no exception, with two of them given to directors who have competed before: Maiwenn and Jacques Audiard.

Maiwenn, who won the Jury Prize in 2011 for "Polisse", will screen her marriage chronicle, "Mon roi", starring Vincent Cassel, Bercot and Louis Garrel, while "A Prophet" helmer Audiard will return with the gritty street saga "Dheepan", about a Tamil refugee who finds himself in the tough suburbs of Paris.

The film festival opens with French drama 'Standing Tall' directed by actress-filmmaker Emmanuelle Bercot.

Standing Tall about a juvenile delinquent co-starring Catherine Deneuve and  Directed by the French actress-filmmaker Emmanuelle Bercot, Standing Tall is only the second film directed by a woman to open Cannes