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Women in Motion Award at Festival de Cannes

23 May 2023

Kering and the Festival de Cannes are pleased to present the 2023 Women In Motion Emerging Talent Award to Carmen Jaquier Women in Motion has been a part of Cannes Film Festival since 2015 awarding emearging women talents in the film industry. In parallel, the Women In Motion Award recognizes the careers and commitments of emblematic figures from the film world: Jane Fonda (2015), Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis (2016), Isabelle Huppert (2017), Patty Jenkins (2018), Gong Li (2019), Salma Hayek (2021), Viola Davis (2022) and, this year, Michelle Yeoh. As part of the ninth edition of Women In Motion, Kering and the Festival de Cannes awarded the Emerging Talent Prize for the first directed feature film. This prize included a 50,000 euros grant to support the creation of her next film project. As in every year since 2019, the preceding Prize winner chooses her successor. This year, Sweden's Ninja Thyberg selected Swiss director Carmen Jaquier. "I am very grateful to receive this award, especially from a visionary and inspiring director like Ninja Thyberg. Thanks to Women In Motion, I have a feeling of sorority, which touches me and gives me hope in this desire I have for reflection, rebellion, and transmission. I have

Cannes Film Festival 2014, a more feminine edition

16 May 2014

Cannes Film Festival is more feminine this year with Jane Campion as the leader of the Jury. It is not only because of her worth (she is the only producer to have received the Palme d`Or at Cannes in 1993), but ...

Grace of Monaco, Grace Kelly`s role of her life

14 May 2014

For the world premiere of Grace of Monaco, it was not quite a bunch of applauses gathered around. It was more like a deception. The human vision in the interpretation of the director Olivier Dahan was quite a fiasco on trying ...

Sophia Loren for Cannes Classics 2014

6 May 2014

Sophia Loren as a guest of honor, the birth of the Italian western, 30 years old for Paris, Texas, a homage to Henri Langlois, Kieslowski back at Cannes, a masterpiece of Georgian cinema, an unacknowledged film by Raymond Bernard about WWI, rediscovering ...

Cannes Film Festival, the 2014 edition

6 May 2014

THE JURY OF THECOMPETITION 2014 Carole BOUQUET Actrice / France Sofia COPPOLA Scenarist, Producer / United States Leila HATAMI Actrice / Iran JEON Do-yeon Actrice / South Corea Willem DAFOE Acteur / Etats-Unis Gael GARCIA BERNAL Actor, Director, Producer/ Mexic JIA Zhangke Director, Producer, Scenarist / China Nicolas WINDING REFN Director, ...