Since its creation in 2000, the Résidence has played host to over 250 filmmakers from around 60 countries. A number of these directors, invited to the biggest festivals around the world, have had international success: Lucrecia Martel, Kornel Mundruczó, Sebastian Lelio, Antonio Campos, Jonas Carpignano, etc. After passing through the Résidence, the Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu received the Caméra d’or in 2006 for 12:08 East of Bucharest, the Mexican director Amat Escalante, in the Official Selection this year with Perdidos en la noche (Lost in the Night), won the Award for Best Director at Cannes in 2013 with Heli, while his compatriot Michel Franco was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize in 2012 with Después de Lucía (After Lucia) and the Best Screenplay Award in 2015 for Chronic, screened In Competition.
More recently, the Hungarian László Nemes won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2015, as well as the Oscar and Golden Globe for best foreign language film in 2016 for Son of Saul, the Belgian Lukas Dhont got the Caméra d’or in 2018 with Girl, and the Lebanese director Nadine Labaki won the César and the Oscar for best foreign film in 2019 with Capharnaüm (Capernaum). After having received the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019 with Synonymes (Synonyms), the Israeli director Nadav Lapid won the Jury Prize in Cannes with Ahed’s Knee in 2021. In 2022, the Golden Bear went to a resident from the 2018/2019 class, the Spanish director Carla Simón with Alcarràs. And this year, the Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz, one of the first residents, and winner of the Un Certain Regard prize in 2019 with A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão), competed for the Palme d’or with Firebrand.
This handful of famous names reflects the creative abundance that the Festival de Cannes has always supported. Through the Résidence, the Festival de Cannes is proud to welcome the future of worldwide creation to Paris.
La Résidence du Festival © C. Lecalvez / FDC
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