CANNES: Filmmaker Brett Morgen’s biopic of David Bowie Moonage Dreams screens Out of Competition in the Midnight Screenings of this year’s Cannes Film Festival but it is sure to be a worldwide hit given the enduring popularity of Bowie and the artist’s world fans.

CANNES: Director Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up is a well deserved Cannes competition entry with an unusual take on the balance between art and family life for an American female artist. Reichardt is known for her minimalist style of filmmaking and Showing Up follows the same themes.

CANNES: Acclaimed filmmaker James Gray has scored a well deserved slot in the Cannes main competition with Armageddon Time a deeply personal coming of age story set in Queens New York in the 1980s in the neighbourhood where the director grew up.

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VENICE: All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (USA) directed by Laura Poitras was awarded the top prize in the main competition of the 79th Venice Film Festival, which took place from 31 August to 10 September 2022.

VENICE: FNE spoke to Agustina Lumi from Argentina, who is one of the mentors for the new mentoring programme launched by the CICAE-International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas Training this year.

VENICE: FNE spoke Tímea Kókai Nagy from Hungary, who is one of the trainers at the CICAE-International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas Training, which took place from 28 August to 4 September 2022 on the island of San Servolo in Venice. She also works for the Cinefest Festival in Hungary.

VENICE: FNE spoke with Teona Strugar Mitevska about her new film The Happiest Man in the World, which is screening in the Orizzonti programme of the Venice Film Festival.

VENICE: FNE spoke to Marcin Pienkowski from Nowe Horyzonty in Wroclaw, who is one of the trainers at the CICAE-International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas Training, which took place from 28 August to 4 September 2022 on the island of San Servolo in Venice.

VENICE: FNE spoke to Pascal Diot Head of Venice Production Bridge about what has evolved over the past two years and what is new at this year’s edition.