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Cannes President Iris Knobloch on Female Directors Gaining Ground, Festival’s ‘Netflix Rule,’ Relationship With U.S. Industry and Trump’s Proposed Tariffs on Foreign Films
Cannes President Iris Knobloch on seeing women filmmakers thrive at the festival and addressing Trump's proposed tariff plan on foreign films.
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival kicks off this evening with Amelie Bonnin’s feature debut “Leave One Day,” and will include a honorary tribute to Robert De Niro from the hands of Leonardo DiCaprio. More women are submitting films, and what strikes me is the fortunate sequence of events: Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or win, which shone a global spotlight on female directors, followed by Coralie Fargeat’s breakthrough success after last year’s edition. Were you chocked to see U.S. guilds attacking the French system which requires streamers to invest a portion of their revenues in local content and also sets strict windowing rules that Netflix and Amazon have recently appealed to the Council of State?
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