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Cannes Film Festival Celebrates Japanese Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa With 2024 Poster
The poster features a scene from the filmmaker's penultimate feature 'Rhapsody in August.'
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the poster for its upcoming 77th edition which pays tribute to Japanese master Akira Kurosawa and his late career feature Rhapsody in August. The film follows a grandmother who was a victim of the Nagasaki bombing on August 9, 1945, who passes on her faith in love and integrity as a bulwark against war to her grandchildren and her American nephew, with tenderness and contemplation. “In a fragile world that constantly questions otherness, the Festival de Cannes reaffirms a conviction: cinema is a universal sanctuary for expression and sharing.
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