Festival de Cannes
The Festival de Cannes is the most important film event in the world,
with more than 4,000 journalists among the 30,000 accreditees,
representing the entire spectrum of the motion-picture industry.
The Festival de Cannes reflects the dual nature of cinema at the
crossroads of art and industry, and favours both cinema revelations and
professional encounters. For if the Festival principally evokes the
surprise of the Selection and the expectation of the final awards, it
is equally the privileged rendezvous of all motion-picture industry
professionals who attend its Marché du Film.
The Festival, moreover, develops actions in support of cinematic
creation throughout the world. Twenty years after having created the
Caméra d'Or, the prize awarded to the best first film, all selections
combined, the Festival created in 1998 the Cinéfondation to accompany
young filmmakers along the various stages of their creative careers,
from their projects to the making of their films.
The role of the Festival de Cannes has thus grown rich over the course
of the years to the rhythm of the evolution of cinema itself: selecting
and promoting films and artists, welcoming professionals, implementing
new sets of dynamics in support of creation... in a word, serving the
cinema in all its dimensions.
