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Morgan Simon
Morgan Simon (born 1987) is a French director, screenwriter and photographer born in the Paris suburbs. Life and career Morgan Simon studied screenwriting at La Fémis in Paris. In 2016, his short film ''Try To Die Young'' was a César Award nominee. '' A Taste of Ink'', his first feature film, was developed at L’Atelier de la Cinéfondation during the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, as well as The Jerusalem International Film Lab, rubbing shoulders with László Nemes’s Son of Saul. ''A Taste of Ink'' premiered at the 64th San Sebastián Film Festival in the New Directors section and was awarded by a special mention of the jury. It received fifteen awards and was selected by more than fifty festivals, such as Rotterdam, Shanghai, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Zurich, Jerusalem. ''A Taste of Ink'' was released in France on January 25, 2017 with Kévin Azaïs, Monia Chokri and Nathan Willcocks as main actors. In 2018, Simon took part in the Queer Palm jury at the 71st Cannes Film Fe ...
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Morgan may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment'', also called ''Morgan!'', a 1966 comedy film * ''Morgan'' (2012 film), an American drama * ''Morgan'' (2016 film), an American science fiction thriller * Morgan (band), an early 1970s band * ''Morgan'', a graphic novel by Hugo Pratt Businesses * Morgan (clothing) (Morgan de Toi), a French clothing brand * Morgan Motor Company, a British sports car manufacturer * Morgan's, formerly a Canadian department store * Morgan Advanced Materials, a British manufacturing company * Morgans Hotel Group, boutique style hotel group ** Morgans Hotel, located on Madison Avenue, New York City * CP Morgan, a defunct homebuilding company * D. H. Morgan Manufacturing, a roller coaster manufacturer * Roy Morgan, an Australian company which produces the Morgan Poll Places United States * Morgan, Georgia * Morgan, Iowa * Morgan, Minnesota * Morgan, Missouri * Morgan, Montana * Morgan, New Jersey * Morgan, Oreg ...
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Jerusalem Film Festival
The Jerusalem Film Festival (, ) is an international film festival held annually in Jerusalem, It was established in 1984 by the Director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia van Leer, Lia Van Leer, and has since become the main Israeli event for filmmakers and enthusiasts. Over the course of ten days every summer, over 200 films from 60 countries are screened at the Festival, along with a variety of special events, panels, and meetings with prominent local and international filmmakers, as well as professional industry workshops and events. History The Festival was established by Israel Prize recipient and founder of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia Van Leer. After being invited to serve on the jury at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Van Leer decided to create Israel's first international film festival. Already in its first year, the Festival had the honor of hosting key cinematic figures such as Jeanne Moreau, Lillian Gish, Warren ...
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Seville European Film Festival
The Seville European Film Festival (SEFF; ) is an annual film festival dedicated to European cinema held in November in Seville, Spain, since 2004. History The festival is an initiative of the Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla (; ICAS), which depends on the City Council of Seville. It is supported by the ICAA and the sub-programme Europe Creative MEDIA. Since 2013, it collaborates with Filmin. The SEFF's program includes competition sections for feature films, documentaries, shorts and non-fiction along with special events such as retrospectives, screenings and public talks. The event includes the Independent Film Market. The festival also serves as a staging ground for the announcement of the nominations to the European Film Academy's European Film Awards. The event main venues are Teatro Lope de Vega and Teatro Alameda Multicines Nervión Plaza. In 2012, the festival art director Javier Martin Dominguez resigned, he was succeeded by José Luis Cienfuegos. C ...
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Lubna Azabal
Lubna Azabal (born 15 August 1973) is a Belgian actress. Career Azabal was born on 15 August 1973 in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother."Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen. Belgische actrice Lubna Azabal schittert in ‘Incendies’."
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After studying at the , she began a theatrical career in Belgium. In 1997, she took her first film role when Belgian film-maker
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Félix Lefebvre
Félix Lefebvre (born November 19, 1999) is a French actor. For his role as Alexis Robin in the dramatic film '' Summer of 85'', he was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2021. Biography Félix Lefebvre was born in 1999 and spent his childhood in Antony (Hauts-de-Seine). His father was a painter and musician. After obtaining his Baccalauréat, he entered the Conservatory of Paris’s 8th arrondissement and then studied at the Cours Florent The Cours Florent is a private drama school in Paris, France, established in 1967 by French theater actor François Florent. The school's facilities are located on three sites in the 19th arrondissement of Paris: Rue Archereau, Rue Mathis, and .... Filmography Film Television References External links Instagram* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lefebvre, Félix 1999 births Living people People from Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne Male actors from Île-de-France French male film actors French male television actors 21 ...
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Valeria Carla Federica Bruni Tedeschi, also written Bruni-Tedeschi (; born 16 November 1964), is an Italian and French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, '' A Castle in Italy,'' was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Career Bruni Tedeschi's debut film as a director, '' It's Easier for a Camel...'', earned her two awards at the Tribeca Film Festival for Emerging Narrative Filmmaker and Best Actress in 2003. The film also won an award at the Ankara Flying Broom Women's Film Festival in 2004. It was also awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film. It was also entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. According to Tim Palmer the film is an engaging example of contemporary French pop-art cinema, referring to directors who wittily merge the features of intellectual/arthouse cinema with mass/popular cinema, putting Bruni Tedeschi in the company of other filmmakers such as François Ozon, Maîwenn le Besco, Sophie ...
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Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule; 30 October 1992) is a French writer and sociologist. Biography Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule was born and raised in the town of Hallencourt in northern France, which is the setting of his first novel, the autobiographical ' (2014; published in English in 2018 as '' The End of Eddy''). Louis grew up in a poor family supported by government welfare: his father was a factory worker for a decade until "One day at work, a storage container fell on him and crushed his back, leaving him bedridden, on morphine for the pain" and unable to work. His mother found occasional work bathing the elderly. The poverty, racism, alcoholism and his homosexuality which he dealt with in his family during his childhood would become the subject of his literary work. He is the first in his family to attend university. In 2011, he was admitted to two of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in France, the École Normale Supérieure and to ...
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Directors' Fortnight
The Directors' Fortnight (, formerly ) is an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festival as an act of solidarity with striking workers. The Directors' Fortnight showcases a programme of shorts and feature films and documentaries worldwide. Artistic directors Programming is overseen by an artistic director. The current artistic director is Julien Rejl who has programmed Director's Fortnight since 2023. Past artistic directors include (1969–1999), (1999-2003), Olivier Père (2004–2009), Frédéric Boyer (2009–2011), (2012–2018) and (2018-2022). Awards Audience Award In partnership with The Fondation Chantal Akerman, for the first time ever, the audience will award one of the films in the main selection with the "''Audience Award''" or "''Choix du Public''". It's the first ever official award presented by the se ...
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Lukas Dhont
Lukas Dhont (; born 11 June 1991) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film, ''Girl'', premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm awards. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019. His second feature film, '' Close'', premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where he shared the Grand Prix with Claire Denis' '' Stars At Noon''. In 2023, ''Close'' was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film representing Belgium. Early life Dhont was born in Ghent, Belgium. He attended a Catholic high school. As a teenager, Dhont worked as a costume design assistant on film and television sets. His mother is a fashion teacher at an art school. He has a younger brother, Michiel, who is two years younger and works as a producer. Dhont and Michiel both identify as gay. Career He made his feature-length debut in 2018 with ''Girl'', a drama film inspired by the story of Nora Mo ...
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Girl (2018 Film)
''Girl'' is a 2018 drama film directed by Lukas Dhont, in his feature debut. It was written by Dhont and Angelo Tijssens and stars Victor Polster, in his acting debut, as a trans girl who pursues a career as a ballerina. The film screened in the section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or award, for best first feature film, as well as the Queer Palm, and Polster won the Un Certain Regard Jury Award for Best Performance. It was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, although it did not make the December shortlist. It received nine nominations at the 9th Magritte Awards and won four, including Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Polster. ''Girl'' was inspired by Nora Monsecour, a trans female dancer from Belgium, whom Dhont met when he was 18 and she was 15. While initially praised by critics, the film was criticised by some trans and queer writers for its depiction of gender dysphoria and self-ha ...
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Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. Cannes is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside Venice and Berlin, as well as one of the "Big Five" major international film festivals, alongside Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. History The early years The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They found the support of the ...
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Queer Palm
The Queer Palm is an independently sponsored prize for selected LGBT-relevant films entered into the Cannes Film Festival. The award was founded in 2010 by journalist Franck Finance-Madureira. It is sponsored by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, filmmakers of '' Jeanne and the Perfect Guy'', '' The Adventures of Felix'', '' Crustacés et Coquillages'', and '' L'Arbre et la forêt''. The award recognizes a film for its treatment of LGBT themes and gleans from among those films nominated or entered under Official Selection, ''Un Certain Regard'', Critics' Week, Directors' Fortnight and the ACID section. Along with Berlin's Teddy Award and Venice's Queer Lion, the Queer Palm is a major international film award dedicated specifically for LGBT cinema."Cannes cold sh ...
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