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Acclaimed Brit Indie director Howard J. Ford (The Dead 1 & 2, Never Let Go, Darkgame) has just wrapped on his latest film BONE KEEPER, a monstrous tale of discovery and survival, which centres on six friends who enter a remote cave system to investigate the legend of the ‘Bone Keeker’, only to find themselves being hunted by a mysterious creature that may have inhabited the cave for thousands of years. Will they uncover the truth and escape the creature – or become ...
13.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
15th Film Finance Forum highlights and announcements
The 15th Annual International Film Finance Forum in Partnership with the Marché du Film and filmfestivals.com will be taking place on Friday, May 16th on the Festival Main Stage. Experience the cutting edge of global film financing at the 15th Annual International Film Finance Forum. This premier gathering unites visionary filmmakers and industry executives to explore groundbreaking trends in entertainment finance, innovative funding approaches, and cross-border collaborations. ...
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The market is open! Browse through an amazing program
Get ready for an amazing line up of events at Marché du Film Access the Marché du Film's Digital Guide! The Digital Guide is here to help attendees navigate the Marché with ease! Locate exhibitors, find screening details, and browse the full schedule … all in one place, right from your phone! ACCESS THE DIGITAL GUIDE ...
13.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
Coming to Cannes with award winning script with a message on gender inequality: looking for the perfect production fit
'LALA, MY REDHEAD' Feature film by Nellie K. and Deniz Nala in development stage, with a finalised script Looking for support: partners and financiers supporting the fight for Women's rights. On St. Todor’s Day, also known as Horse Easter, the Kalaidzhi Gypsy of Bulgaria celebrate the health of the horse and sell their daughters into marriages! Love and poverty, betrayal and wealth - centuries of traditions put to the test! A com...
FIRST LOOK Poster for Bone Keeper: face your darkest underground fears
Underground terror from Howard Ford with BONE KEEPER making it's international debut in Cannes REinvent selling the just completed feature film by prolific talent Howard Ford for LATITUDE FILMS. Bone Keeper. Director Howard J. Ford. United Kingdom. Production year 2025. Status Upcoming. Original language English. Cast John Rhys-Davies, Sarah Alexandra Marks, Louis James, Tiffany Hannam-Daniels. Script Howard J. Ford. Production company Latitude Films. Release 2025 Sep, 01. Duration...
12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
Hong Kong Cinema Heads to Cannes 2025
A Strategic Showcase of Talent, Industry, and International Collaboration ‘Hong Kong Cinema’ will participate in the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, with a focused presence at the Marché du Film from May 13 to 24, 2025. The initiative aims to connect Hong Kong’s dynamic film industry with international markets at one of the world’s most influential platforms for global cinema. The programme is jointly presented by the Culture, Sports and Touri...
13.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
The American Pavilion Announces Programming for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
Special Guests Include Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Vicky Krieps, Michael Angelo Covino, and many more Arab Film & Media Gold House, Easterseals, The Impact Lounge, Institute, United for Business and Visit California, to present panels Legendary filmmakers, acclaimed actors, and headline-making journalists will be among those featured during the upcoming Industry In Focus Series and In Conversation programming at The American Pavilion (AmPav) at the 2025 Cannes Int...
12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
UNIFRANCE’S 2025 “10 TO WATCH” IN CANNES: 10 rising talents to keep an eye on
Initiated by Unifrance in 2014, the "10 to Watch" program aims to contribute to the emergence of new French movie talents in the international arena, by raising their profile outside France (through contact with journalists, festival programmers, broadcasters, and foreign audiences) and, in this way, to participate in the constant renewal of French cinema icons. The artists who make up the "10 to Watch" are selected by a committee of film journalists&n...
12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
The Arab Cinema Magazine tracks the journey of Arab films on the 2025 global festival circuit in its Cannes-bound 25th edition
The Arab Cinema Center (ACC) returns once again to the Cannes Film Festival with an exclusive edition of its Arab Cinema Magazine, covering key topics shaping the Arab film industry and relevant to filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts across the region. This 25th edition highlights Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, CEO of the Doha Film Institute (DFI) and recipient of the sixth Arab Cinema Personality of the Year Award. Through an in-depth interview, she discusses her career, the institute’s role in s...
12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
Vision Films Acquires MuslimKids.TV’s Animated Feature Film ‘Time Hoppers’ adding to slate of films heading to Cannes
Vision Films is heading to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival with a varied slate of films including the newly acquired Time Hoppers from MuslimKids.TV’s creators Flordeliza Dayrit and Michael Milo. The film is executive producers Mohannad Malas, Dr. Abdullah Patel, Dr. Fatima Coovadia, and Dr. Hussein Amery and is partly funded by Canada Media Fund, Shaw Rocket Fund, Alberta Media Fund, and federal and provincial tax credits. Time Hoppers is a 3D animated adventure geared to...
12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
Stage 32 Program in Cannes
THE OFFICIAL STAGE 32 SCHEDULE And, in true Stage 32 style, we’ll be taking the Croisette by storm with an action-packed lineup of events and partnerships at the festival, including: Stage 32 + the Cannes Film Festival Marche du Film Official Education Partnership For nearly a decade, Stage 32 has been a proud education partner of the Marché du Film. Anyone who purchases a Marche du Film badge will get a free Stage 32 webinar with their badge purchase. If you are planning...
12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
The Awakening: new film starring Kevin Spacey
Peter Stormare (Fargo, John Wick: Chapter 2) and Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness, Men in Black) star in the action-packed thriller The Awakening. Cast introduces Justin Tinto and The World’s Strongest Man” Eddie Hall (Expendables 4) with Matt Hookings (Prizefighter) and Academy Award-winning Kevin Spacey (House of Cards, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty) rounding out the cast, it was announced today. Matt Routledge directs the feature produced by Camelot Films...
12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
Cannes what is next after Cannes : consider NATPE Budapest
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12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
First look at "On The Edge" with Octavio Rodriguez - new director onboard
“ON THE EDGE” GETS A BOLD NEW VISION: OCTAVIO RODRIGUEZ JOINS AS DIRECTOR, STUDIO 100 FILM REVEALS FIRST LOOK The upcoming animated feature “On the Edge” is boldly redefining its creative vision with the addition of acclaimed director Octavio Rodriguez (“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”, “Ron’s Gone Wrong”, “Incredibles 2”, “Coco”). Director Octavio Rodriguez brings personal resonance and passio...
12.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
EXCLUSIVE: The Voice of Despair reviewed - premiering in Cannes 2025
The filmfestivals.com were privileged to watch this new short film from Ukraine (14minutes ahead of it's Cannes WorldPremiere. The team wants to share the emotion they had watching this brillant, creative but tragic war story which sends a very strong message. Read the reviews below. The Voice of Despair delivers a powerful affecting narrative told from a new perspective - that of an unborn child. Conceived because of a brutal sexual assault, the film brings the audience within the ...
11.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
The World Woman Cannes May 14 and 15 Agenda
The World Woman Cannes Agenda, a global multistakeholder initiative to reshape women’s roles in the media and entertainment industry, will launch its inaugural #EqualityMoonshot May 14–15 at the Hotel Splendid, on the sidelines of the Festival de Cannes at the Hotel Splendid in Cannes, France, directly opposite the Palais des Festivals. The event is expected to attract more than 400 delegates from over 30 countries. Positioned as a premier global platform, the World Woman Ca...
11.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
Improvise and be in control with AI at Cannes Next & Pickford with FIRST DATE
You Are in Control: AI Turns Viewers into Creators - a Live and Interactive Screening & Breakfast Sunday, 18 May | 09:00-10:00 | Village Innovation (Pantiero) The future of storytelling will be interactive and immersive, creating a new medium defined by real-time collaboration; one where stories are co-created between an author and her audience. We will be showing a sneak-peak demonstration of this technology through an experience called First...
11.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
VIDEO - The 5 Baltic projects selected for PÖFF Goes To Cannes
Five carefully selected Baltic film projects will be showcased at the Goes to Cannes showcase. The programme will take place at Marché du Film, the industry section of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 16th. Each year, the Marché du Film invites selected festivals and markets to present their curated showcase in Cannes, featuring diverse works-in-progress from around the world. Goes to Cannes highlights bold new voices and cinematic visions, offering a valuable platform for...
11.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
Exclusive: The New Edition of Baltic Film Magazine is Out be the first to scroll...
The Cannes edition of Baltic Film highlights the projects, people, and trends defining today's Baltic film landscape. This issue explores the region’s dynamic presence at Cannes 2025 — from The Two Prosecutors in the Cannes Competition to Winter in March at La Cinef and the PÖFF Goes to Cannes lineup. It features interviews with key producers, a look at the global festival journey of Baltic films, and insights into the creative momentum f...
11.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
Seventh Annual French Riviera Film Festival Announces 2025 Finalist Shorts
Scheduled from May 16-17, 2025, the seventh annual French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF), celebrating short film and short-form content from around the globe, is pleased to unveil the finalist shorts of the 2024 competition, the announcement was made today by festival co-founder Nicole Goesseringer Muj. First launched in 2019, FRFF recognizes and celebrates short-form content created for film, television, ...
05.05.2025 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog
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Alan Schoenauer is getting ready to shoot Tom Cruise again and again
Aloha Pictures Collection by Alan Schoenauer: Tom Cruise in Cannes 2022 for Top Gun Maverick Congrats to our friend Alan Aloha see you soon lol ;) Bon Festival ;) 46 th Anniversary Cannes film Festival ALOHA PICTURES © Winner First Price Photographer's Award Cannes Film Festival Images Collection by Alan Schoenauer Carlotti © ALOHA PICTURES © Reproductions interdites All rights reserved 70TH EVENT -...
11.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Cannes is getting ready for the 78th edition
Got your tickets for the opening ?: see you soon on the red carpet. The red carpet is still missing! Podium for photographers and deck ready.... The filmfestivals.com team is getting ready! Photos by Tyler Tran. Filmfestivals.com became one of the most important media covering Cannes for the past 25 years. Last year's online coverage included over 600 publications Prior to this Bruno Chatelin was CEO of 20th Century Fox/UGC , and prior to this with So...
11.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Cannes Classics will screen Oscar Winning Director István Szabó' s "Sunshine"
It was announced that the award-winning film SUNSHINE (2000) will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025 as a Cannes Classics Selection. Academy Award winning director István Szabó will be in attendance with award winning producer Robert Lantos at the special screening. The film recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and stars Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Rosemary Harris, Jennifer Ehle, Molly Parker, Deborah Kara Unger, William Hurt and Mark Strong. SUNSHINE was a Canad...
11.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
The Fortnight in Cannes - Practical Guide
The Fortnight screening schedule is now available, find it on our website and plan your Cannes schedule! The Fortnight screening schedule is now available, find it on our website and plan your Cannes schedule! ...
10.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Cannes installs new Dolby Atmos Surround Sound in the Grand Auditorium Lumière
© Joachim Tournebize / FDC As the 78th Festival de Cannes draws near, the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière of the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès where the Official Selection films are screened, becomes Europe’s largest theater equipped with Dolby Atmos® sound technology. This major installation underscores the commitment of the Festival, of the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès and of the Mairie de Cannes to providing the best possible film scr...
10.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Get to know The Festival de Cannes Official Partners
The Festival de Cannes unveils the digital version of its Official Catalogue, a special opportunity to thank all of its Official Partners for their invaluable support. This publication highlights the strength of this leading event of the film industry, giving recognition to all those who play their part to make the event exceptional. Photo © J. Tournebize / FDC ...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
A Hidden Life to open Cinéma de la plage 9.30 on opening day
A Hidden Life is a 2019 epic historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It stars August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, and Matthias Schoenaerts, with Michael Nyqvist and Bruno Ganz in their final performances. The film depicts the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. The film premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festiv...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Cinéma de la Plage 2025 Schedule of your 9.30 screenings
Every day at 9:30PM, the Festival de Cannes reinvents itself as night falls, transforming the Croisette's Plage Macé, opposite the Majestic hotel, into an open-air cinema. In addition to the screenings, meetings and Official Selection events held at the Palais des Festivals, this is another way for everyone to get involved to the great cinema party. The program for the 78th Festival will include: film teams on stage, premieres and world cinema classics. From Hong Kong ac...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
The screenings guide of the 78th Festival de Cannes
Check out the 78th Festival Official Selection screenings guide from May 13 to 24 and organize your stay in Cannes! ...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Rendezvous at the Festival de Cannes with 4 film giants
With the preview screenings of its Official Selection, the Festival de Cannes traditionally offers privileged moments of dialogue and public discussions with the greatest figures of today's cinema. This year's program features 4 exceptional artists for 3 highly anticipated talks. © Antonio Olmos Rendez-vous with... Christopher McQuarrie Wednesday May 14 at 12:30 pm - Salle Debussy After presenting Top Gun in 2022 as its producer, Chris...
10.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
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Cannes équipe le Grand Auditorium Lumière de la technologie sonore Dolby Atmos
© Joachim Tournebize / FDC À l’approche de la 78ᵉ édition du Festival de Cannes, le Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière du Palais des Festivals et des Congrès où sont projetés les films de la Sélection officielle devient la plus grande salle d'Europe équipée de la technologie sonore immersive Dolby Atmos®. Cette installation d’envergure vient confirmer l’engagement du Festival, du Palais des...
10.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Les Rendez-vous du Festival de Cannes avec 4 géants du cinéma
Avec les projections en avant-première de sa Sélection officielle, le Festival de Cannes offre traditionnellement des moments privilégiés de dialogue et des discussions publiques avec les plus grands artistes d’aujourd’hui. Au programme cette année, 4 artistes d’exception pour 3 rencontres particulièrement attendues. © Antonio Olmos Rendez-vous avec... Christopher McQuarrie ...
10.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Le programme du Cinéma de la Plage 2025 des pépites en plein air tous les soirs à 21.30
Photo: © J. Tournebize / FDC Tous les jours à 21h30, le Festival de Cannes se réinvente à la nuit tombée et transforme la plage Macé de la Croisette, située en face de l’hôtel Majestic, en salle de cinéma à ciel ouvert. En parallèle des projections, rencontres et événements de la Sélection officielle qui se tiennent au Palais des Festivals, c’est une autre façon, ouve...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Les horaires des projections du 78e Festival de Cannes
Découvrez les horaires des séances des films en Sélection officielle pour la 78e édition du 13 au 24 mai et organisez votre séjour à Cannes ! Check out the 78th Festival Official Selection screenings guide from May 13 to 24 and organize your stay in Cannes! ...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Cannes Classics 2025 ouvrira avec Chaplin The Gold Rush : 100 ans déjà!
The Gold Rush © Roy Export Company Ltd Le centenaire de The Gold Rush de Charlie Chaplin en pré-ouverture le 13 mai salle Debussy, L’avant-première mondiale du film de Diane Kurys qui raconte le couple Montand-Signoret, Les 25 ans d’Amores perros d’Alejandro G. Iñárritu en sa présence, Un hommage à Edward Yang avec la copie restaurée de Yi Yi, La ressortie d’À...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Sélection officielle du 78e Festival de Cannes Dernières annonces
Avec les films suivants, la Sélection officielle du 78e Festival de Cannes est définitive. Compétition ...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
Découvrons les partenaires officiels du Festival de Cannes
Le Festival de Cannes dévoile son Catalogue officiel digital, occasion privilégiée pour remercier l'ensemble de ses Partenaires officiels pour leur soutien indispensable. Cette publication met en lumière la richesse de ce rendez-vous cinématographique majeur, tout en valorisant les acteurs qui contribuent à en faire un événement d’exception. Photo © J. Tournebize / FDC Fier de pouvoir compter sur l’accompagne...
08.05.2025 | Cannes's blog
