“Cannes Film Festival” returns despite the challenges of “Corona”

Members of the festival jury during the opening ceremony.

Reuters

With the musical drama “Annette,” starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, which was shown globally on the French Riviera, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off yesterday, which returns to hold its activities in personal attendance for the first time since the beginning of the Corona pandemic.

Cotillard and Driver participated in the opening ceremony, as they walked the famous red carpet, alongside Academy Award-winning actress and director Jodie Foster, who received an honorary Palme d'Or at an event this year for her film career.

The 74th edition of the festival was postponed from May to July, in order to allow more time for the health situation to improve.

A number of hygiene and safety protocols have been put in place, including wearing masks inside cinemas at all times.

"Annette", directed by Leo Carax, is the first of 24 films that will be shown during the two-week festival.

The Palme d'Or for Best Film will be awarded on July 17.

The festival chose four female film directors to participate in the competition for the Palme d'Or, three of them are French: Mia Hansen Love, Catherine Corsini, Julia Docorno, and the fourth of them is Hungarian Elideko Ennedi.

The Russian director Kirill Serebrenkov was also included in the competition for the main prize through the film "Petrov Flow", or "Petrov Flu".

Oscar-winning American director Spike Lee is heading this year's jury, becoming the first black person to hold this position.

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