Quentin Tarantino, guest of honor at the Cannes Filmmakers Fortnight

The Fortnight of Filmmakers Cannes will feature the American director Quentin Tarantino as guest of honor for a special event to discuss cinema and see a “secret screening”.

“As an exceptional and generous film buff, Tarantino feels right at home in the Fortnight. This year he will be our guest to present a secret screening and talk about his counter-history of cinema ”, details the message.

La Fortnight also recalled that both this parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival and the director of “Pulp Fiction” they were born in the same year, 1969, with a free spirit.

The 55th edition of the event, which seeks proposals from new talents and unique film scripts, will take place between May 17 and 26 and will screen around twenty feature films.

A special screening will be dedicated to paying tribute to the cinema of the Portuguese Manoel de Oliveira, and more specifically, to the thirtieth anniversary of “Vale Abraão”, a film that also stars in the official poster of this 2023 edition of the Fortnight.

The opening session will be in the hands of the French filmmaker Cédric Kahn, with “Le procès Goldman”, while the closing session will screen “Woo-Ri-Ui-Ha-Ru” (“In our day”), by the South Korean Hong Sang-soo .

Among the feature films screened, there is also “Creatura”, the second feature film by Elena Martín Gimeno, the new proposal by the French Michel Gondry (“Le livre des solutions”); “Légua” by the Portuguese Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra, and “Conann”, by the also French Bertrand Mandico.

The Filmmakers’ Fortnight, renamed for reasons of inclusion, formerly known as Directors’ Fortnight, is a section parallel to the Cannes Film Festival created in 1969 by the Society of Film Directors (SRF) to discover, with an independent spirit, films by young authors and to celebrate the singular works of recognized directors.

It is a section in which filmmakers such as George Lucas, Martin ScorseseKen Loach, and Jim Jarmusch.

WITH INFORMATION FROM EFE.