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The Cannes International Film
Festival (French: Le Festival
International du Film de Cannes or
just Festival de Cannes), is an
annual film festival held in Cannes,
France, which previews new films of
all genres including documentaries
from around the world. Founded in
1946, it is the world's most
prestigious and publicized film
festival
The invitation-only festival is held
annually (usually in May) at the
Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.
The Cannes Film Festival will
take place from May 16 to May 27,
. The President of the Jury is
the Italian film director Nanni
Moretti.
The
festival was relaunched after World
War II in 1946, in the old Casino of
Cannes, financed by the French
Foreign Affairs Ministry and the
City of Cannes. Although the initial
spirit of the French festival was to
compete with its Italian
counterpart, a secret agreement took
place between both nations, so that
they will celebrate their
international festivals in
alternating years. The first Cannes
Festival had a considerable success,
so when the Franco-Italian agreement
was made public it was heavily
criticised and considered as a
"capitulation of France".
The
next year, in 1947, the festival was
held again as the Festival du film
de Cannes, dropping the
international nature, but only in
name, as films from sixteen
countries were presented. Moreover,
the principle of equality was
introduced, so that the jury was to
be made up only of one
representative per country. Also,
this year the festival was held at
the made-for-the-occasion Palais des
Festivals, although the roof was
unfinished and blew off during a
storm.
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