I’m focused on: If this allows me to keep on working and make the next film, to me, that’s OK. Moreno’s first feature as a solo director was invited to both Un Certain Regard and main competition at Berlin. But its Cannes selection is a long time coming in another way. The film took Moreno five years to make, partially because of the pandemic. It’s one of the highlights of the Un Certain Regard section. Senegalese filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s “Banel & Adama” is the rare first feature in Palme competition.Īrgentine filmmaker Rodrigo Moreno, 50, will be making his first trip to Cannes with “The Delinquents,” a heist drama sprinkled with existentialism and cinematic flourishes.
While many eyes will be on reactions to the new Scorsese or “Asteroid City,” Cannes will, as it does every year, bring new directors to wider film audiences. You’re right on the front line.” POTENTIAL BREAKTHROUGHS
This is where you want to premiere films that challenge and films that ask questions. “But it’s the most important film festival,” continues McQueen. “It’s never as good as the first time,” McQueen says.
His 2008 debut, “Hunger,” won the Camera d’Or, a prize for best first film. McQueen, too, began his feature filmmaking career at Cannes. “Occupied City,” which McQueen made with his wife, Dutch author Bianca Stigter, is a four-hour-plus documentary that combines narration detailing violent incidents across Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation with present-day footage from those locations. Steve McQueen, the “12 Years a Slave” filmmaker, will debut the longest film playing at Cannes and one of its most thought-provoking. There’s also the upcoming HBO series “The Idol,” from “Euphoria” filmmaker Sam Levinson starring Abel Tesfaye - also known as the Weeknd - and Lily-Rose Depp “Firebrand” with Alicia Vikander as Catherine Parr and Judd Law as Tudor King Henry VIII and the Pixar movie “Elemental,” which closes the festival.
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