After a break of more than two years, one of the most prestigious events in the film industry – the Cannes Film Festival – has returned with its splendor, red carpet, luxurious costumes and movie stars. It opened on the French Riviera on 6 July.
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Recall that last time Cannes Film Festival in full glory with movie stars and the audience in person took place in the spring of 2019, but in 2020 was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This year, the festival has moved from the traditional dates in May to the middle of summer.
This year, the festival opened with a screening of director Leos Carax’s film-opera “Annette”. The film, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotiara, will be released to Amazon by August 6 this year.
The film also participates in the Cannes Film Festival competition, claiming the “Golden Palm Branch”, alongside the works of such masters as Wess Anderson, François Ozone, Nanni Moretti and others. The competition program also includes the latest film “Petrov’s Flu” by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov.
The entire team of the film “Annette” was visible on the red carpet at the opening of the festival. French film stars and celebrities were also parked in front of the camera. Hollywood actresses Jody Foster and Helen Mirren, South Korean director Junho Bons and other stars also attended the opening ceremony.
It has already been reported that the jury of the Cannes Film Festival will be chaired this year by the innovative US film director Spike Lee, becoming the first black man in the prestigious position of the president of the jury.
The festival will take place this year from July 6 to 17.
It has already been reported that Latvian representatives will also be present at the Cannes Film Festival this year, representing the country at various film industry events, programs and the film market.
According to Kristīne Matīsa, a representative of the Latvian National Film Center, the festival will feature a Latvian pavilion with representatives of the Latvian Investment and Development Agency (LIAA), the National Film Center and the Latvian Film Producers’ Association. Specially for the Cannes film market, NKC has compiled and published the latest and upcoming catalog of Latvian films Films from Latvia 2020-2023 and an overview of the Latvian film industry Latvian Film Industry 2021.
This year, Latvia’s participation in the Cannes Film Festival is closely connected with neighboring Lithuania and Estonia, as the three leading film institutions of the Baltic States are cooperating more and more closely, following the principle that joining forces makes them more visible in the international industrial arena. This is why the Marché du Film Cannes Film Market, which has brought together more than 500 producers from around the world for 15 years and has become an internationally important collaborative platform, has the potential to come to the fore (Producers under the Spotlight) is used by all three countries together, by two producers from each country. Latvia is represented in this selection of professional, active and also promising producers by Aija Bērziņa (studio Tasse Film) and Gints Grūbe (studio Mistrus Media).
For the first time, a selection of upcoming films from the “Baltic Event” section of the Tallinn Film Festival is participating in the Cannes Film Market “Co-Production Day”. in a set of seven projects represented by director Dāvis Sīmanis and producer Gints Grūbe with the historical drama “Maria’s Silence” supported by the National Film Center – the story of Latvian-born actress Maria Leiko (1887-1938), who became a prominent movie star in Germany but tragically died in the Soviet Union, Stalin’s repression in the brutal avalanche (starring Inese Kučinska).
The cooperation between the three countries has also developed Baltic short film collection / Baltic Shorts In the “Cannes Court Métrage” section of the Cannes Film Festival, four of the ten films have been made in Latvia – Vladimirs Leščovs, Edmunds Jansons, Helen Ora and Armands Začs will present their latest works internationally. The short films in the selection will be available online to programmers and film distributors at world film festivals for another five months.
Latvia will be represented on the Baltic virtual stand by a team from the Riga International Film Festival (Riga IFF) short film program Short Riga and the Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, but on July 15, a presentation on “Small Countries, Big Impacts: The Short Film Production ecosystem of the Baltics “, which will talk about short film production mechanisms and co-production opportunities in Latvia.
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