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Directors’ Fortnight Launches Cannes’ First Audience Award In Memory Of Chantal Ackerman

Directors' Fortnight Launches Cannes' First Audience Award

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is launching a new People’s Choice audience award at its upcoming edition, running alongside the main festival from May 15 to 26. The parallel section said the award, which comes with a €7,500 ($8,100) cash prize, was in keeping with the spirit of the event, which has always been open to members of the public alongside cinema professionals since its launch in 1969. Directors’ Fortnight also welcomed subsequent works Golden Eighties(1986), Sud(1999), La Captive(2000) and Tombée de Nuit sur Shanghaï(2007).

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