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France Culture, France Inter, Arte, OCS ... In the absence of the Cannes Film Festival, canceled due to the health crisis, several media offer special programs to celebrate the 7th art.

- France Culture will offer dozens of shows, fictions, documentaries and portraits from May 15 to 22 for lovers of dark cinemas, including a long weekend and special cinema nights. With magazines and major events including La Grande Table, Les Chemins de la philosophie, A Voix Nue, Masterclasses ..., but also Nights dedicated to cinema.

A program that will also honor the winners of the France Culture Cinema Awards for students and the Acid-France Culture crush, which should have been awarded in Cannes, and were awarded this year to Mati Diop, for "Atlantique" , and Annabelle Attanasio, for "Mickey and the bear".

- Other Radio France branches also highlight cinema, including France Inter with reruns of interviews given by directors and actors to Augustin Trapenard in "Boomerang", Masterclasses from previous editions of the Cannes Film Festival and a selection of the "best Cannes films" visible on the UniversCiné platform. And France Musique is in tune with its program "Ciné Tempo".

- France Télévisions, which has garnered success with major French films broadcast during confinement, wants to continue its momentum and inaugurated on Monday, in addition to its usual meetings, a new daily box dedicated to heritage cinema on France 3, with a cycle from 11 to 22 May devoted to Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret, icons of the French 7th art.

An offensive in the cinema declined on all the antennas: France 2 will diffuse the comedy "The Apprentices" of Pierre Salvadori Saturday at 14H00, followed Sunday evening of "What binds us" of Cédric Klapisch and "The ghosts of Ismael" Arnaud Desplechin. On France 5, the cult film "A man and a woman" by Claude Lelouch will be shown on Monday evening, and will be followed at 11:40 pm, as part of the Midnight Cinema, of "Midnight… quai de Bercy".

Finally, the public group will soon start an exclusive partnership with the Directors' Fortnight, which should delight moviegoers since it will allow the public to watch a selection of Cannes films for free on the France.tv site. In the meantime, we can already find on this platform the documentary recently broadcast on France 5 "Cannes 39: The festival will not take place", which returned to the history of the very first edition of the Cannes Festival, scheduled in 1939 and canceled due to war.

- Arte broadcasts a rich program from Monday until May 27, with a remarkable selection of feature and short films, magazines, documentaries for moviegoers, accompanied by online content. We will find, for example, works by Michael Winterbottom, Michael Haneke, Jim Jarmusch or Spike Lee.

- OCS is also making its festival, around a selection "American Cannes" including the last opus of Quentin Tarantino "Once upon a time ... in Hollywood" or "Drive" with Ryan Gosling (from May 21), independent films ("The florida project", "Leave no trace" ...), feminine films and great classics.

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