from the Cannes Film Festival
The cinematic community is awaiting, this evening, the results of the jury of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, headed by Swedish director Robin O Stlund.
This year’s session was marked by the strength of the participating films, the years of experience of veteran directors, as well as the amazing experiences of young cinema, so who will go to the Palme d’Or that will be awarded to one of the 21 films that competed for this most expensive and important award in the world?
Among these films is the film “The Old Oak Tree” by the veteran English director Ken Loach, which deals with a sensitive topic, which is the issue of Syrian refugees in the north of England in the small neighborhood that bears the name of the film and their suffering in exile with a social and human eye and the atmosphere of cultural exchange that they brought to the region despite the cases of hostility they They encounter it daily as he awaits his third Palme d’Or.
Festival red carpet
And if he gets the Palme d’Or, Loach will be the first director in the festival’s history to win three Palme d’Or, and German Wim Fender for his movie “Beautiful Day”. It talks about the story of a Jewish child being kidnapped by the authorities and the Catholic Church between 1850 and 1860 in Bologna, Italy.
Also, the movie “Anatomy of a Fall” by French director Justine Tritt, her third participation in the festival. The film talks about the story of a writer named Sandar, who lives in a mountainous area isolated from the world with the case of the murder of her husband, a university professor, and their 11-year-old son.
Also competing is the film “Area of Interest” by British director Jonathan Glazer, and the film exposes Nazi practices.
Likewise, critics are waiting for justice for the Algerian-Brazilian director Karim Ainouz, who presented a great movie, “The Queen’s Game”, and made a beautiful historical film about King Henry VIII’s infectious disease for women, but he was eventually killed by his sixth wife, who imprisoned her.
Intimacy girls
And there is the American director Wes Anderson in “Space City”, and among the films that critics liked was “Club Zero” by Austrian director Jessica Hausner, in which she tells the story of students with a nutritionist after she was hired to watch over their training on a healthy diet, but she was hiding Her affiliation with a sectarian movement led these students to it.
We are also awaiting the award that will be awarded to the Tunisian film “Banat Intimacy” by director Kawthar Ben Hania, which discusses the issue of terrorism’s exploitation of four girls living in a poor neighborhood in Tunisia.
