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Cannes Film Festival celebrated 50 years of its Directors' Fortnight section in 2018 as the overall festival enjoys its 71st edition. The festival opened with Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
Christopher Nolan presented 2001: A Space Odyssey on a remastered 70mm print in the Cannes Classics strand.
Shoplifters won the Palme d'Or. Read about the other main competition winners.
The festival ran from May 8 to 19.
View Films by Strand:
- ACID
- Cannes Classics
- Competition
- Critics' Week
- Directors' Fortnight
- Midnight Screenings
- Out Of Competition
- Special Screenings
- Un Certain Regard
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A comedy drama about a male synchronised swimming team.
The sad life and stupendous success of a singing superstar.
A journey through the pictorial world of Orson Welles, his drawings, paintings and works of youth, seen for the first time on screen thanks to his daughter Beatrice Welles.
A father and daughter find themselves searching for a place to call their own after their off-the-grid lives are discovered by the authorities.
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find on the street.
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
A woman suffering from memory loss is reunited with the family she can't remember having.
A cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote.
A documentary about Pope Francis, his work of reform and his answers to today's global questions.
A man becomes obsessed with the strange circumstances of a billionaire mogul's murder and the kidnapping of a girl.
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Portrait of a lady and a city Fabien Constant on Sarah Jessica Parker and the team behind Blue Night
Style and grace Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi on The Gospel According To André
On the road again Kent Jones on Tribeca award winner Diane
Putting island in doc Gabrielle Brady on the challenges of shooting Island Of The Hungry Ghosts
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