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A palm tree fell on a man at the Cannes Film Festival who was walking along the Croisette on Saturday in the seaside French town. Authorities sped through festivalgoers to tend to the person who laid injured and bleeding on the sidewalk. No information was immediately available on their condition.  Trump and US administration used power for massacre in Gaza: Ayatollah Khamenei Representatives for the festival didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. The incident happened midday at the festival. Cannes, which runs until May 24, is about halfway through.  Poland votes for a new president Sunday as worries grow about the future

French actor Théo Navarro-Mussy has been barred from walking the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival due to accusations of rape and sexual assault—a first in the festival’s history. Navarro-Mussy stars in Dossier 137, directed by Dominik Moll, which premieres in competition on Thursday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has been accused of “rape, physical and psychological violence” by three former partners. A court dismissed the initial complaint last month, but the alleged victims have announced plans to pursue a civil case against him. Festival general delegate Thierry Frémaux said that he took the “unprecedented” step to exclude Navarro-Mussy from Thursday’s gala screening, in agreement with the film’s producers. Tom Cruise gets emotional as 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' earns 5-minute ovation at Cannes Speaking to French outlet Télérama, Frémaux defended the decision, saying, “The case remains ongoing,” and added that the ban would be lifted if the case was dismissed or if Navarro-Mussy is found not guilty. The ban follows a separate development in France’s film industry this week, where veteran actor Gérard Depardieu received an 18-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of sexual assault—marking one of the country’s most prominent #MeToo cases to date.

The Cannes Film Festival has officially updated its dress code to ban full nudity and “excessively voluminous” outfits on the red carpet, aligning its policies with French law and longstanding festival protocol. The announcement comes after past red carpet incidents, including a topless protestor in 2022 and Bianca Censori’s transparent dress at the Grammys earlier this year, according to Variety. The festival clarified that the move is part of an effort to reinforce rules already in place. “This year, the Cannes Film Festival has made explicit in its charter certain rules that have long been in effect. The aim is not to regulate attire per se, but to prohibit full nudity on the red carpet, in accordance with the institutional framework of the event and French law,” the festival stated. Further, the guidelines mention that Cannes “reserves the right to deny access to individuals whose attire could obstruct the movement of other guests or complicate seating arrangements in the screening rooms.” Tom Cruise urges young actors to learn filmmaking craft While it remains unclear whether medium-sized gowns like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie-pink dress with a modest train would be restricted, larger trains have reportedly created congestion on the Palais steps and raised safety concerns. Cannes has previously sparked debate over its dress code. The requirement to wear “elegant” footwear for evening screenings was criticised for its apparent bias towards high heels — a point of contention among women guests. Although low heels are now generally allowed, sneakers remain frowned upon. In 2022, an Indigenous producer was reportedly turned away for wearing moccasins, reigniting concerns over cultural insensitivity and outdated norms at one of the film world’s most prestigious events.

The 78th Cannes Film Festival will feature new films by acclaimed directors Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater, all vying for the prestigious Palme d'Or, organizers revealed on Thursday. Following a successful 2024 edition that launched Oscar-winner Anora and award-season favorites like Emilia Pérez, The Substance, and The Apprentice, this year’s lineup is stacked with major auteurs. Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux and festival president Iris Knobloch made the announcement at a press event in Paris. Highlights of the competition include: Ari Aster’s Eddington, a pandemic-era Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone.Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, featuring Benicio Del Toro as a European schemer.Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, a French-language film centered on Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave.Julia Ducournau, who became only the second woman ever to win Cannes’ top prize with 2021’s Titane, returns with Alpha, a drama set in 1980s New York about an 11-year-old whose parent has AIDS. Cannes regulars are also back: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time Palme winners, bring Young Mothers.Joachim Trier re-enters the competition with Sentimental Value, reuniting with The Worst Person in the World star Renate Reinsve.Scarlett Johansson’s first film as a director, Eleanor the Great, will screen out of competition. Notably absent from the lineup are highly anticipated titles like Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Previously, it was announced that Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning will premiere at the festival. Tom Cruise, who received an honorary Palme d'Or in 2022, headlines the film. This year, Robert De Niro will be honored with the same award during the opening ceremony. Juliette Binoche will serve as jury president, following last year’s Greta Gerwig. This marks the first time in six decades that two women have consecutively led the Cannes jury. The festival will take place from May 13 to May 24.

After a canceled 2020 edition and a scaled back gathering last year, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with an eye turned to Russia’s war in Ukraine and a live satellite video address from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Formally attired stars including Eva Longoria, Julianne Moore, Bérénice Bejo and “No Time to Die” star Lashana Lynch were among those who streamed down Cannes’ famous red carpet Tuesday for the opening of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and the premiere of Michel Hazanavicius’ zombie comedy “Final Cut.” Also Read: Arefin Shuvo to attend Cannes film festival Tuesday More star-studded premieres — “Top Gun: Maverick!” “Elvis!” — await over the next 12 days, during which 21 films will vie for the festival’s prestigious top award, the Palme d’Or. But Tuesday’s opening and the carefully choreographed red-carpet parade leading up the steps to the Grand Théâtre Lumiére again restored one of the movies’ grandest pageants after two years of pandemic that have challenged the exalted stature Cannes annually showers on cinema. But the war in Ukraine was in Cannes’ spotlight Tuesday. During the festival’s opening ceremony, Zelenskyy spoke at length about the connection between cinema and reality, referencing films like Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” as not unlike Ukraine’s present circumstances.    

Popular film star Arifin Shuvo will leave Dhaka for Cannes on Tuesday to attend the 75th Cannes Film Festival. He will represent the trailer of the movie ‘Mujib’, based on the biography of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In his reaction to the festival, Arifin Shuvo said, “It is very pleasant to me as I am going to Cannes for the first time. It feels to me like dream. I have got the chance to attend the festival. This is a big honour for me. I am grateful to my fans as everything has become possible for them. My love to them.” Cannes Film Festival will start on Tuesday (May 17). Actress Nusrat Imroz Tisha, who acted in the role of Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the ‘Mujib’ film, and Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud might also go to the Cannes. Besides, the Indian information minister along with some team members of the film will also present. Mujib, film is co-produced by Bangladesh and India and directed by Shyam Benegal. It stars Arifin Shuvo leads the role of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Also read: World premiere of ‘Mujib Amar Pita’ held

Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” a wild body-horror thriller featuring sex with a car and a surprisingly tender heart, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making Ducournau just the second female filmmaker to win the festival’s top honor in its 74 year history. The win on Saturday was mistakenly announced by jury president Spike Lee at the top of the closing ceremony, broadcast in France on Canal+, unleashing a few moments of confusion. Ducournau, a French filmmaker, didn’t come to the stage to accept the award until the formal announcement at the end of the ceremony. But the early hint didn’t diminish from her emotional response. “I’m sorry, I keep shaking my head,” said Ducournau, catching her breath. “Is this real? I don’t know why I’m speaking English right now because I’m French. This evening has been so perfect because it was not perfect.” Read Best Comedy Movies of All Time: Humour in Films through Century After several false starts, Lee implored Sharon Stone to make the Palme d’Or announcement, explaining: “She’s not going to mess it up.” The problems started earlier when Lee was asked to say which prize would be awarded first. Instead, he announced the evening’s final prize, as fellow juror Mati Diop plunged her head into her hands and others rushed to stop him. Lee, himself, spent several moments with his head in his hands before apologizing profusely for taking a lot of the suspense out of the evening. “I have no excuses,” Lee told reporters afterward. “I messed up. I’m a big sports fan. It’s like the guy at the end of the game who misses the free throw.” Read Rehana Maryam Noor is one of the most powerful films from South Asia: Anurag Kashyap “I messed up,” he added. “As simple as that.” Ducournau’s win was a long-awaited triumph. The only previous female filmmaker to win Cannes’ top honor — among the most prestigious awards in cinema — was Jane Campion for “The Piano” in 1993. In recent years, frustration at Cannes’ gender parity has grown, including in 2018, when 82 women — including Agnes Varda, Cate Blanchett and Salma Hayek — protested gender inequality on the Cannes red carpet. Their number signified the movies by female directors selected to compete for the Palme d’Or — 82 compared to 1,645 films directed by men. This year, four out of 24 films up for the Palme were directed by women. In 2019, another genre film — Bong Joon-Ho’s “Parasite” — took the Palme before going on to win best picture at the Academy Awards, too. That choice was said to be unanimous by the jury led by Alejandro González Iñárritu, but the award for “Titane” — an extremely violent film — this year’s jury said came out of a democratic process of conversation and debate. Juror Maggie Gyllenhaal said they didn’t agree unanimously on anything. Read  ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ Review: The Bangladeshi movie screened in 74th Cannes Film Festival “The world is passion,” said Lee. “Everyone was passionate about a particular film they wanted and we worked it out.” In “Titane,” which like “Parasite” will be distributed in the U.S. by Neon, Agathe Rousselle plays a serial killer who flees home. As a child, a car accident leaves her with a titanium plate in her head and a strange bond with automobiles. In possibly the most-talked-about scene at the festival, she’s impregnated by a Cadillac. Lee called it a singular experience. “This is the first film ever where a Cadillac impregnates a woman,” said Lee, who said he wanted to ask Ducournau what year the car was. “That’s genius and craziness together. Those two things often match up.” Read Azmeri Haque Badhon: Starring the Title Role of 'Rehana Maryam Noor' Film Premiered in 74th Cannes On stage, Ducournau thanked the jury “for letting the monsters in.” Afterward, she acknowledged to reporters her place in history, but also said she “can’t be boiled down to just being a woman.” “Quite frankly, I hope that the prize I received has nothing to do with being a woman,” said Ducournau. “As I’m the second woman to receive this prize, I thought a lot about Jane Campion and how she felt when she won.” More women will come after her, Ducournau said. “There will be a third, there will be a fourth, there will be a fifth.” Read Dilip Kumar: Life History, Success Story of the Legendary Indian Film Star Cannes’ closing ceremony capped 12 days of red-carpet premieres, regular COVID-19 testing for many attendees and the first major film festival to be held since the pandemic began in almost its usual form. With smaller crowds and mandated mask-wearing in theaters, Cannes pushed forward with an ambitious slate of global cinema. Last year’s festival was completely canceled by the pandemic. The slate, assembled as a way to help stir movies after a year where movies shrank to smaller screens and red carpets grew cobwebs, was widely considered to be strong, and featured many leading international filmmakers. The awards were spread out widely. The grand prize was split between Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian drama “A Hero” and Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6.” Read Abdullah Mohammad Saad: The Director of ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ Best director was awarded to Leos Carax for “Annette,” the fantastical musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard that opened the festival. The award was accepted by the musical duo Sparks, Ron and Russell Mael, who wrote the script and music for the film. Jurors also split the jury prize. That was awarded to both Nadav Lapid’s “Ahed’s Knee,” an impassioned drama about creative freedom in modern Isreal; and to Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasthakul’s “Memoria,” a meditative film starring Tilda Swinton. Caleb Landry Jones took home the best actor prize for his performance as an Australian mass killer in the fact-based “Nitram” by Justin Kurzel. Renate Reinsve won best actress for Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World.” Best screenplay went to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car,” a Haruki Murakami adaptation he penned with Takamasa Oe. Read Asia in Cannes: Spotlight on Asian Movies in 74th Cannes Film Festival The Croatian coming-of-age drama “Murina,” by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, took the Camera d’Or award, a non-jury prize, for best first feature. Kusijanović was absent from the ceremony after giving birth a day earlier. Lee was the first Black jury president at Cannes. His fellow jury members were: Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Song Kang-ho, Tahar Rahim, Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Mylène Farmer. Read Best Movies Preview: The Anticipation on the Run for Cannes Film Festival 2021

An individual has to make diverse decisions throughout life. When a person stays firm about a decision knowing that he will have to pay the ultimate price in the future, the person has to be at his strongest. Rehana Maryam Noor is such a stubborn character. Written and directed by Abdullah Mohammad Saad, Rehana Maryam Noor has made history by representing Bangladesh in the 'Un Certain Regard' section at the Cannes International Film Festival. 'Rehana Maryam Noor (2021)' Movie Review Although Rehana is the main character in the movie, the story revolves around the harassment of her student, Annie.  In whose name the movie, Rehana Maryam Noor is a single mother of a 6-year-old girl. Raising a daughter alone, taking care of father, mother, and brother, raising expenses - all she has to do single-handedly. Nevertheless, such people have to be strong! But we see how persistent she is as she always wears her husband's watch. Read Rehana Maryam Noor screened at Cannes amid standing ovation Rehana is a 37-year-old- medical college teacher. To prove the insistence of this medical college teacher, the director showed that she was sitting next to the student to catch cheating in the exam hall, and she became successful in that too. The talented director Saad depicted all these small but meaningful incidents to create the context of the story.

The Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for the first time in more than two years on Tuesday, launching the French Riviera spectacular with the premiere of Leos Carax’s “Annette,” the introduction of Spike Lee’s jury, and with high hopes for shrugging off a punishing pandemic year for cinema. The 74th Cannes opened Tuesday with as much glitz as it could summon, led by “Annette,” a fantastical musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard and scored by the musical duo Sparks. The opening ceremony also returned last year’s Palme d’Or winner, Bong Joon Ho (for “Parasite”) and Jodie Foster, who first came to Cannes as a 13-year-old with Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” for an honorary Palme. The occasion drew a wide spectrum of film luminaries back to Cannes to celebrate the festival, canceled last year due to the COVID-19 virus. Pedro Almodovar, Jessica Chastain, Helen Mirren and Bella Hadid walked the red carpet, which was again lined with tuxedoed photographers and surrounded by eager onlookers. “So it feels good to go out,” said Foster in French. Read:Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar dies “Vivre la France!” declared Lee. The festival was officially declared open by Bong, Almodovar, Foster and Lee, in a mix of Korean, Spanish, French and English. Over the next 10 days, the Cannes Film Festival will try to resuscitate global cinema on a grand scale. Cannes has pushed ahead in much its usual form, with splashy red-carpet displays and a lineup of many of the world’s most revered filmmakers, including Asghar Farhadi, Wes Anderson, Mia Hansen-Love and Paul Verhoeven. Festivalgoers are tested every 48 hours, seated shoulder to shoulder and masked for screenings. Lee, who is heading the jury that will decide this year’s Palme, arrived earlier in the day wearing a “1619” baseball hat and trying to keep a low profile. “I’m not trying to be a hog,” he said to reporters, urging them to ask his fellow jurors questions. But Lee’s presence was hard to ignore. His face as Mars Blackmon from his 1986 feature film debut “She’s Gotta Have It” (which premiered at Cannes) adorns this year’s poster at the festival central hub, the Palais des Festivals. Lee is the first Black person to ever lead Cannes’ prestigious jury. In his first comments, in response to a question from Chaz Ebert, widow of Roger Ebert, Lee spoke about how little has changed since 1989′s “Do the Right Thing” — which made a controversial debut at Cannes. “When you see brother Eric Garner, when you see king George Floyd murdered, lynched, I think of Ray (Radio) Raheem,” Lee said, referring to the “Do the Right Thing” character. After 30-plus years, you’d “think and hope,” Lee said, “that Black people would have stopped being hunted down like animals.” Much of the talk on Tuesday at Cannes centered on injustice and survival. That the festival was even happening, after last year’s edition was canceled, was a surprise to some. Maggie Gyllenhaal, who’ll see the 24 films in competition for the Palme as a member of the jury over the next 12 days, said it will be her first time in a movie theater in 15 months. When “Parasite” actor Song Kang Ho was invited to be a juror, he said, “I thought: Will there really be a festival?” “The fact that we’re here today, it’s really a miracle,” said Song. Read:Bollywood actor Fatima behind Aamir Khan's divorce? Still, much of the usual pomp is toned down this year. There’s a relative dearth of promotion up and down Cannes’ oceanfront promenade, the Croisette, and Hollywood has less of a role than in years past. Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”), a juror, added that in some parts of the world, cinema is under siege. In President Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, he said, the national cinematheque has been closed and its staff dismantled. “This is a very clear demonstration of contempt for cinema and for culture,” said Filho, who noted the tragedy of Brazil reaching 500,000 dead from COVID-19 when, he said, many thousands could have been saved by a stronger governmental response. That conversation was prompted in part by a Georgian journalist who asked jury members about resistance. Russia invaded the former Soviet republic in 2008. “The world is run by gangsters,” said Lee, listing former U.S. President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro and Russian President Vladimir Putin. In that context, the regular topics of concern at Cannes were perhaps dwarfed. But the jurors made passionate cases for the future of movies — and a more inclusive future. This year’s competition lineup includes a Cannes-high four female filmmakers, but they still make up a fraction of the 24 filmmakers vying for the Palme. Read:Asia in Cannes: Spotlight on Asian Movies in 74th Cannes Film Festival “I think when women are listening to themselves and really expressing themselves, even inside, about a very, very male culture, we make movies differently. We tell stories differently,” said Gyllenhaal. She recalled watching Jane Campion’s “The Piano” (the lone film directed by a woman to ever win the Palme) as formative and unfiltered. “It just went in straight.” The rise of streaming also took the spotlight. Cannes has refused to select films without French theatrical distribution for its competition lineup. The festival and Netflix have been at odds for several years. On Monday, Thierry Fremaux, festival director, cited Cannes’ record at discovering filmmakers and asked: “What directors have been discovered by (streaming) platforms?” Lee, who made last year’s “Da 5 Bloods” for Netflix, hardly bated an eye when asked about the subject. “Cinema and screening platforms can coexist,” said Lee, who called Cannes “the world’s greatest film festival.” “At one time, there was a thinking that TV was going to kill cinema. So, this stuff is not new.”

The curtain of Cannes Film Festival 2021 is finally going to unveil on July 7 at the Palais De Festival Center in Cannes of France. It will continue till its grand finale on July 17 when the winner of Palm d’Or will be announced. After its founding in 1946, Cannes Film Festival has been recognizing films of new styles around the world every year. Pierre Lescure, the French journalist and TV executive elected as president in 2014, is remaining as the president. Thierry Fremaux, who became the general delegate of the festival in 2007, is coordinating the entire event. Movies Lineup in Cannes Film Festival 2021 Official Selection In Competition 1. Leos Carax’s ‘Annette’ 2. Ildiko Enyedi’s ‘The Story of My Wife’ 3. Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Benedetta’ 4. Mia Hanse’s ‘Bergman Island’ 5. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ 6. Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’ 7. Nadav Lapid’s ‘Ahed's Knee’ 8. Nabil Ayouch’s ‘Casablanca Beats’ 9. Juho Kuosmanen’s ‘Compartment No 6’ 10. Joachim Trier’s Oslo trilogy’s final part ‘The Worst Person in the World’ 11. Catherine Corsini’s ‘The Divide’ 12. Joachim Lafosse’s ‘The Restless Ones’ 13. Jacques Audiard’s ‘Paris' 13th District’ 14. Saleh Haroun’s ‘Lingui’ 15. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Memoria’ 16. Justin Kurzel’s ‘Nitram’ 17. Bruno Dumont’s ‘France’ 18. Kirill Serebrennikov’s ‘Petrov's Flu’ 19. Sean Baker’s ‘Red Rocket’ 20. Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ 21. Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titan’ 22. Nanni Moretti’s ‘Three Floors’ 23. Francois Ozon’s ‘Everything Went Well’ 24. Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ Read Greatest Love Stories in Celluloid: Hollywood’s Best Romantic Movies of All Time Un Certain Regard 1. Arthur Harari’s ‘Onoda’ 2. C.B Yi’s ‘Money Boys’ 3. Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’ 4. Gessica Geneus’s ‘Freda’ 5. Alexey German Jr.’s ‘House Arrest’ 6. Hafsia Herzi’s ‘Bonne Mere’ 7. Tatiana Huezo’s ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ 8. Valdimar Johannsson’s ‘Lamb’ 9. Semih Kaplanoglu’s ‘Commitment Hasan’ 10. Kogonada’s ‘After Yang’ 11. Eran Kolirin’s ‘Let There Be Morning’ 12. Kira Kovalenko’s ‘Unclenching The Fists’ 13. Youhann Manca’s ‘La Traviata, My Brothers And I’ 14. Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova’s ‘Women Do Cry’ 15. Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ 16. Sebastian Meise’s ‘Great Freedom’ 17. Teodora Ana Mihai’s ‘La Civil’ 18. Na Jiazuo’s ‘Gaey Wa'r’ 19. Eskil Vogt’s ‘The Innocents’ 20. Laura Wandel’s ‘Playground’ Read Suman Ghosh’s Film Searching for Happiness is to Feature in London Indian Film Festival 2021 Out of Competition 1. Nicholus Bedos’s ‘OSS 117: From Africa with Love’ 2. Emmanuelle Bercot’s ‘Peaceful’ 3. Ani Folman’s ‘Where is Anne Frank’ 4. Han Jae-rim’s ‘Emergency Declaration’ 5. Todd Haynes’s ‘The Velvet Underground’ 6. Cedric Jimenez’s ‘Bac Nord’ 7. Valérie Lemercier’s ‘Aline, The Voice Of Love’ 8. Tom McCarthy’s ‘Stillwater’ Read Rehana Maryam Noor: The Bangladeshi Film in the prestigious list of Cannes Cinema De La Plage 1. Justin Lin’s ‘Fast and Furious 9’ Midnight Screening 1. Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s ‘Bloody Oranges’ 2. Audrey Estrougo’s ‘Supremes’ 3. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s ‘Tralala’ Cannes Premier 1. Mathieu Amalric’s ‘Hold Me Tight’ 2. Andrea Arnold’s ‘Cow’ 3. Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Marx Can Wait’ 4. Samuel Benchetrit’s ‘Love Songs For Tough Guys’ 5. Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘Deception’ 6. Charlotte Gainsbourg’s ‘Jane’ by Charlotte  7. Hong Sang-soo’s ‘In Front Of Your Face’ 8. Eva Husson’s ‘Mothering Sunday’ 9. Kornel Mundruczo’s ‘Evolution’ 10. Gaspar Noe’s ‘Vortex’ 11. Ting Poo and Leo Scott’s ‘Val’ 12. Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass Read Female filmmakers of Bangladesh have made their mark in the industry Special Screening 1. Karim Ainouz’s ‘Mariner of the Mountains’ 2. Shlomi Elkabetz’s ‘Black Notebooks I and II’ 3. Nadav Lapid’s ‘The Star’ 4. Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Babi Yar. Context’ 5. Noemi Merlant’s ‘Mi Iubita Mon Amour’ 6. Andrew Muscato’s ‘New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization’  7. Maxim Roy’s ‘The Heroics’ 8. Wen Shipei’s ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ 9. Ye Ye’s ‘H6’ 10. Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ 11. Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: A New Generation Read Top 10 English Comedy Movies released in 2021 Cinema for the Climate 1. Marie Amiguet’s ‘Velvet Queen’ 2. Cyril Dion’s ‘Animal’ 3. Louise Garrel’s ‘The Crusade’ 4. Rahul Jain’s ‘Invisible Demons’ 5. Zhao Liang’s ‘I Am So Sorry’ 6. Aissa Maiga’s ‘Above Water’ 7. Flore Vasseur’s ‘Bigger Than Us’ Short Film 1. Marija Apcevska’s ‘North Pole’ 2. Samir Karahoda’s ‘Displaced’ 3. Casper Kjeldsen’s ‘In the Soil’ 4. Mohammadreza Mayghani’s ‘Orthodontics’ 5. Adrian Moyse Dullin’s ‘The Right Words’ 6. Diogo Salgado’s ‘Through the Haze’ 7. Carlos Segundo’s ‘Sideral’ 8. Tang Yi’s ‘All the Crows in the World’ 9. Jasmin Tenucci’s ‘August Sky’ 10. Wu Lang’s ‘Absence’ Read Best Bengali Thriller Movies in 2021 Cinefondation 1. Sacha Amaral’s ‘Billy Boy’ 2. Carina-Gabriela Dasoveanu’s ‘Love Stories on the Move’ 3. Theo Degen’s ‘The Salamander Child’ 4. Natalia Durszewicz’s ‘Beasts among Us’ 5. Huang Menglu’s ‘The Cat from the Deep Sea’ 6. Lina Kalcheva’s ‘Other Half’ 7. Mya Kaplan Habikur’s ‘Night Visit’ 8. Auden Lincoln-Vogel’s ‘Bill and Joe Go Duck Hunting’ 9. Aleksandra Odic’s ‘Frida’ 10. Anna Podskalska’s ‘Red Shoes’ 11. Gonzalo Quincoces’s ‘The Fall of the Swift’ 12. Rodrigo Ribeyro’s ‘Cantareira’ 13. Oliver Rudolf’s ‘Fonica M-120’ 14. Oskar Kristinn Viginsson’s ‘Free Men’ 15. Adele Vincenti-Crasson’s ‘King Max’ 16. Lukas Von Berg’s ‘Saint Android’ 17. Yoon Daewoen’s ‘Cicada’ Read Free Online Movies: Best Netflix Alternatives for Streaming Movies in 2021 Cannes Classic 1. Marcel Camus’s ‘Black Orpheus’ of 1959 2. Vojtech Jasny’s ‘The Cassandra Cat’ of 1963 3. Henri Duparc’s ‘Dancing in the Dust’ of 1989 4. Philippe de Broca’s ‘Dear Louise’ of 1972 5. Masahiro Shinoda’s ‘Demon Pond’ of 1979 6. Marta Meszaros’s ‘Diary for My Children’ of 1983 7. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘The Double Life of Veronique’ of 1991 8. Orson Welles’s ‘F for Fake’ of 1973 9. Roberto Rossellini’s ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’ of 1950 10. Zdravko Velimirovic’s ‘The Fourteenth Day’ of 1960 11. Peter Wollen’s ‘Friendship’s Death’ of 1987 12. Jacques Doillon’s ‘The Hussy’ of 1978 13. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ‘I Know Where I’m Going’ of 1945 14. Bill Duke’s ‘The Killing Floor’ of 1985 15. Max Ophuls’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ of 1948 16. Raoul Peck’s ‘Lumumba, Death of a Prophet’ of 1990 17. Kinuyo Tanaka’s ‘The Moon Has Risen’ of 1955 18. David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ of 2001 19. Oscar Micheaux’s ‘Murder in Harlem’ of 1935 20. Gilles Grangier’s ‘Not Delivered’ of 1957 21. Ana Mariscal’s ‘The Path’ of 1958 22. Pietro Germi’s ‘Path of Hope’ of 1950 23. Tengiz Abuladze’s ‘Repentance’ of 1987 24. Alain Resnais’s ‘The War Is Over’ of 1966 Read Best Iranian Movies 2021 to Watch during Ramadan Fasting Latest Documentary 25. Yves Jeuland’s ‘All About Yves Montand’ 26. Javier Espada’s ‘Bunuel, A Surrealist Filmmaker’ 27. Andre Bonzel’s ‘Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone’ 28. Francesco Zippel’s ‘Oscar Micheaux - The Superhero of Blck Filmmaking’  29. Pascal-Alex Vincent’s ‘Satoshi Kon: The Dream Machine’ 30. Mark Cousins’ ‘The Storms of Jeremy Thomas’ 31. Mark Cousins’ ‘The Story of Film: A New Generation’ Parallel Sections International Critics’ Week Feature Films 1. Simon Mesa Soto’s ‘Amparo’ 2. Omar El Zohairy’s ‘Feathers’ 3. Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s ‘The Gravedigger’s wife’ 4. Clara Roquet’s ‘Libertad’ 5. Elie Grappe’s ‘Olga’ 6. Laura Samani’s ‘Small Body’ 7. Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre’s ‘Zero F*cks Given’ Read 10 Best Adventure Movies Released in 2021 Short Films 1. Manolis Mavris’s ‘Brutalia, Days of Labour’ 2. Zou Jing’s ‘Lili Alone’  3. Hao Zhao & Yeung Tung’s ‘An Invitation’  4. Nicolai G.H. Johansen’s ‘Inherent’  5. Andrei Epure’s ‘Intercom 15’  6. Elinor Nechemya’s ‘If It Ain’t Broke’  7. Marie Larrive’s ‘Noir-Soleil’  8. Ian Barling’s ‘Safe’  9. Jimmy Laporal-Tresor’s ‘Soldat Noir’  10. Jela Hasler’s ‘On Solid Ground’  Special Screenings 1. Constance Meyer’s ‘Robust’  2. Vincent Le Port’s ‘Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer’  3. Samuel Theis’ ‘Softie’  4. Sandrine Kiberlain’s ‘A Radiant Girl’  5. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s ‘Anais in Love’  6. Leyla Bouzid’s ‘A Story of Love and Desir’  Read Superstar Aamir Khan, filmmaker wife announce divorce Films for Invitations 1. Pablo Giles’ ‘Bisho’ 2. Jorge Sistos Moreno’s ‘La Oscuridad’  3. Indra Villasennor Amador’s ‘Pinky Promise’  4. Mariano Renteriia Garnica’s ‘A face covered with kisses’  Directors Fortnight Feature films 1. Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Chiara’  2. Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’  3. Clio Barnard’s ‘Ali & Ava’  4. Nathalie Alvarez Mesen’s ‘Clara Sola’  5. Yassine Qnia’s ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’  6. Miguel Gomes’ ‘The Tsugua Diaries’  7. Manuel Nieto Zas’ ‘The Employer and the Employee’  8. Anais Volpe’s ‘The Braves’  9. Haider Rashid’s ‘Europa’  10. Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Futura’  11. Radu Muntean’s ‘Intregalde’  12. Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit The Road’  13. Vincent Mael Cardona’s ‘Magnetic Beats’  14. Luana Bajrami’s ‘The Hill where Lionesses Roar’  15. Anita Rocha da Silveira’s ‘Medusa’  16. Rachel Lang’s ‘Our Men’  17. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s ‘Murina’  18. Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s ‘Neptune Frost’ 19. Emmanuel Carrere’s ‘Between Two Worlds’  20. Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’ ‘The Tale of King Crab’  21. Jean-Gabriel Periot’s ‘Returning to Reims (Fragments)’ 22. Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part II’ 23. Shujun Wei’s ‘Ripples of Life’ 24. Ely Dagher’s ‘The Sea Ahead’ Read Will Smith opening up, releasing memoir ‘Will’ in November Special Screenings 1. Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Monrovia, Indiana’  2. Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part I’  Short and Medium Length Movies 1. Eddie Alcazar’s ‘The Vandal’  2. Andreea Cristina Bortun’s ‘When Night Meets Dawn’  3. Mathilde Chavanne’s ‘Simone Is Gone’  4. Diego Marcon’s ‘The Parents’ Room’  5. Alberto Mielgo’s ‘The Windshield Viper’  6. Yoriko Mizushiri’s ‘Anxious Body’  7. Lois Patino and Matias Pineiro’s ‘Sycorax’  8. Sebastian Schjaer’s ‘The Sidereal Space’  9. Peter Tscherkassky’s ‘Train Again’  Summing up Like previous years, Cannes Film Festival 2021 will also be filled with the marching sounds of the new brilliant filmmakers. Despite the notion of its bringing the European films as art films, World filmmakers will get some tips to come out of the orthodox films and meet the new film appetite of the cinephiles. Read Bollywood: 'There is no life without you'