The Palais des Festivals will host a “Special Cannes” event, which will run from October 27-29, and will feature four films from this year’s Official Selection and in-competition short films and the Cinéfondation’s school films.

The event will be open to the public and a jury will award the Palme d’Or for short films and the Cinéfondation prizes.

“The collection of four films from the Official Selection, the short film competition, the film school competition, and the dinners and meetings epitomize the happiness we’ll all feel to be together in Cannes in October,” said festival director Thierry Frémaux. “The films of the Official Selection are currently playing to cinemagoers in France, in Europe and throughout the world. It’s a great sign to see them making a stopover in Cannes, before we turn our attention to the 2021 season.”

The mini-festival, which is organized with the Cannes City Council, will include Un triomphe (The Big Hit!) by Emmanuel Courcol, Bruno Podalydès’ Les Deux Alfred (The French Tech), Asa Ga Kuru (True Mothers) by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, and Beginning, the debut by Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili.

Cannes has also confirmed the dates of next year’s festival as May 11-22.

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“As of today, a physical edition seems complicated to organize, so we are going forward with an announcement of films from the (initial Official) Selection at the beginning of June,” said a spokesperson for the festival, which confirms what Cannes’ director Thierry Fremaux said on Sunday during an interview with Screen Daily.

As an alternative to a virtual festival, Cannes will oragnize “redeployment ‘outside the walls’ (of Cannes), in collaboration with fall festivals,” the spokesperson continuted. 

Cannes’ director Thierry Fremaux plans to announce the films that were part of the roster and scheduled to be released in theaters between now and next spring. These films will be given a “Cannes 20” label. Movies that delayed their release by a year will be considered for the 2021 edition. The selection process for next year’s festivals will begin in the fall.

The “labeled” films will be featured at film festivals such as Toronto, Deauville, Angoulême, San Sebastian, New York, Busan, and Fremaux’s own Lumière festival in Lyon. 

The Cannes Marché du Film’s virtual edition is set to run June 22-26, alongside a U.S agencies-led virtual market. There’s been no further news if the Venice Film Festival will take place and a final decision will be made at the end of the month.

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The Palais des Festivals will host a “Special Cannes” event, which will run from October 27-29, and will feature four films from this year’s Official Selection and in-competition short films and the Cinéfondation’s school films.

The event will be open to the public and a jury will award the Palme d’Or for short films and the Cinéfondation prizes.

“The collection of four films from the Official Selection, the short film competition, the film school competition, and the dinners and meetings epitomize the happiness we’ll all feel to be together in Cannes in October,” said festival director Thierry Frémaux. “The films of the Official Selection are currently playing to cinemagoers in France, in Europe and throughout the world. It’s a great sign to see them making a stopover in Cannes, before we turn our attention to the 2021 season.”

The mini-festival, which is organized with the Cannes City Council, will include Un triomphe (The Big Hit!) by Emmanuel Courcol, Bruno Podalydès’ Les Deux Alfred (The French Tech), Asa Ga Kuru (True Mothers) by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, and Beginning, the debut by Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili.

Cannes has also confirmed the dates of next year’s festival as May 11-22.

The post Cannes Film Festival Plans Three-Day Special October Event appeared first on thestarsworldwide.com.

“As of today, a physical edition seems complicated to organize, so we are going forward with an announcement of films from the (initial Official) Selection at the beginning of June,” said a spokesperson for the festival, which confirms what Cannes’ director Thierry Fremaux said on Sunday during an interview with Screen Daily.

As an alternative to a virtual festival, Cannes will oragnize “redeployment ‘outside the walls’ (of Cannes), in collaboration with fall festivals,” the spokesperson continuted. 

Cannes’ director Thierry Fremaux plans to announce the films that were part of the roster and scheduled to be released in theaters between now and next spring. These films will be given a “Cannes 20” label. Movies that delayed their release by a year will be considered for the 2021 edition. The selection process for next year’s festivals will begin in the fall.

The “labeled” films will be featured at film festivals such as Toronto, Deauville, Angoulême, San Sebastian, New York, Busan, and Fremaux’s own Lumière festival in Lyon. 

The Cannes Marché du Film’s virtual edition is set to run June 22-26, alongside a U.S agencies-led virtual market. There’s been no further news if the Venice Film Festival will take place and a final decision will be made at the end of the month.

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