EPREUVES D’ARTISTES

The history of modern cinema is written first at festivals. Following on from Histoire(s) de festival, and Les marches, etc. (une comédie musicale), Gilles Jacob gathers together more elements telling the endless tale of the Festival de Cannes. These are fragments that, when spliced together, create one great press conference; one comprehensive story of film creation over the last 25 years. Thirty of the greatest international film directors reveal some of their secrets; think aloud; resume the state of the word in a single sentence after having fixed it on the lens of their camera.

This film is an invitation to see and to hear, together, great filmmakers who meet each other, admire each other, answer each other and share common ideas, their meeting witnessed by an author who feels grea