The world’s biggest and most prestigious event ‘The Cannes Film Festival’ i.e. the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is going to start. The festival will begin next week in southern France.
Hollywood’s top stars – George Lucas, Meryl Streep, Demi Moore will also attend the festival. At the same time, you will win everyone’s hearts by walking on the red carpet. The ‘Cannes Film Festival’ started in 1939 as an alternative to the ‘Venice Film Festival’ has been held every year.
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Cannes, the world’s largest film festival, began in 1939. It started as an alternative to the ‘Venice Film Festival’. This film festival is organized as an annual event since 1946. However, in 1948 and 1950, the film festival was not held due to financial constraints.
This year the ’77th Cannes Film Festival’ will be held in the heart of the festival on the French Riviera. The festival will start from May 14. Will continue till May 25. On Monday, May 6, the schedule for the photo exhibition and award ceremony has been announced. The closing ceremony, where the best movie of the year is awarded, will take place on May 25. All will be broadcast exclusively on France’s ‘France-2’ channel.
This year, 4-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig will be seen as the president of the ‘Feature Film Jury’. She will be the first woman director from America to be found at this location which is undoubtedly a precedent in history. Besides, there will be Lily Gladstone, Ava Green, Nadine Labaki and others. 22 films were nominated for the Best Picture title.
This year at the ‘Cannes’ festival, three prestigious Palms awards will be given. Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep, filmmaker George Lucas and acclaimed Japanese animation studio ‘Studio Ghibli’ have been chosen for the honor.
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