As part of the festivities of its 70th anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival organized a photo session on Tuesday to take a family portrait that could be described as history since it brought together 113 stars and cinema professionals. 113 personalities who came to pay tribute to the largest film festival in the world.
In the front row, some winners of the Palme d’Or:
Laurent Cantet (2008), Cristian Mungiu (2007), Jerry Schatzberg (1973), Claude Lelouch (1966), Michael Haneke (2009 and 2012), Jane Campion (1993), Ken Loach (2006 and 2016), Nanni Moretti (2001), Costa Gavras (1993), Bille August (1988 and 1992) Lakhdhar-Hamina (1975).
Agnès Varda (Palme d’Honneur 2015) and Jean-Pierre Léaud (Palme d’Honneur 2016).
Jury presidents:
Andrea Arnold (2012), Claudia Cardinale (1993), Georges Miller (2016), Liv Ullman (2001), Catherine Deneuve (1994), Isabelle Huppert (2009), Nicole Kidman (2013).
2017 juries members
Pedro Almodovar (President), Marwen Ade, Jessica Chastain, Fan Bingbing, Agnes Jaouani, Park Chan-Wook, Will Smith, Paolo Sorrentino, Gabriel Yared.
Uma Thurman, Mohamed Diab, Reda Kateb, Joachim Lafosse.
Actors who have won better interpretation awards:
Vincent Lindon (2015), Kristen Dunst (2011), Élodie Bouchez (1998), Émilie Dequenne (1999), Mads Mikkelsen (2008), Emmanuelle Bercot (2015), Christoph Waltz (2009), Berenice Bejo (2013), Juliette Binoche (2010), Benicia Del Toro (2008), Severine Caneele (1999).
And finally guests, including:
Oliver Stone, Monica Bellucci, Lambert Wilson, Salma Hayek, Charlize Theron, Colin Farrell, Marion Cotillard, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Antonio Banderas, Ferid Boughdir, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Abderrahmane Sissako, Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Beart, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Catherine Deneuve, Andie MacDowell and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It’s so impressive to see all these stars in the same place and in the same photo!
Two Tunisians in this commemorative photo: Claudia Cardinale and Ferid Boughdir.
The first role of Claudia Cardinale in a feature film was that of Amina in the Franco-Tunisian film Goha, the simple by Jacques Baratier. This film had won the prize A certain look in 1958.
A restored version of Goha was projected during the Cannes Film Festival in its 2013 edition in the presence of Claudia Cardinale.
On March 29, 2017, Claudia was designated as the muse of the 70th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival by appearing on the poster of the festival and on the daily leaflets of schedules.
As for Ferid Boughdir, his two documentaries, Africa Camera (1983) and Arab camera (1987) had been present in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section.
FRIS BUGHDIR was also a member of the Jury of the official feature films in 1991, and the official short films competition in 2009.
Two other Arab filmmakers appear in this photo:
-Algerian Mohammed Lakdar-Hamina, who won the Palme d’Or in 1975 for his film Chronicle of the years of embers.
– Egyptian Mohamed Diabscreenwriter and director, whose film Clash had last year opened the section A certain look. Mohamed Diab is This year member of the jury of this same section.
On his Facebook page, he wrote that he could not believe himself, his chance to appear in such a photo with such giants of world cinema.
It must be said that never anywhere else, there have been so many stars gathered in the same photo!
Neïla Driss
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