Highlights from Cannes as a film festival | Hollywood

The casts and directors of the 22 films selected for the main competition await to hear whether they have won prices, especially for the best film.

AFP looks back on some of the highlights of the last 11 days before the start of the closing ceremony at 1640 GMT:

The Palme d'Or is known to predict, but the favorites of the critics count dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi “It was just an accident” and a family drama “Sentimental Value” by Norway's Joachim Trier.

Trier's film brought an extraordinary 19-minute standing ovation on Thursday.

“Two prosecutors”, a study of the Despotism of the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, is also highly valued, as is Richard Linklater's “Nouvelle Vague” about the French director Jean-Luc Godard.

The festival began on May 13 with a flap over a new clothing order, which says that extravagant large dresses on the red carpet and “total nudity” are prohibited.

Oscar winner Halle Berry was the first victim in which the star “Monster's Ball” was forced to change a cloakroom for the opening ceremony because her dress was too long.

Although many people seemed to defend the guidelines, the Indian model and the influencer Snigdha Baruah had to remove a flowing train out of their dress after they had been blocked by safety at the VIP input.

After years of scandals in the film industry and the pressure to take a position, the festival announced a new #metoo policy by excluding an actor in a prominent French film from the red carpet due to allegations of rape.

Theo Navarro-Mussy, who appears in “Dossier 137”, denies the allegations and a first police investigation was completed last month.

This year's meeting on the Riviera was a step in the rehabilitation of the scandally planned star Kevin Spacey, who received lifelong Achievement Award during a charity gala.

The Australian legend Nicole Kidman now published a plea for other directors and said that their number was still “incredibly low”.

Only three women have ever won a palm.

A trio of actors gave their highly expected directorial debut with different assets.

“Baby girl” actor Harris Dickinson (28) and “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart (35) left Cannes with praise in her ears for her films, “Ururchin” and “The Chronology of Water”.

Reviews for Scarlett Johansson's first turn behind the camera, “Eleanor the Great”, would have made a more difficult reading.

This year there was no from the war in Gaza. Hundreds of film characters signed an open letter on the eve of the festival in which the film industry was called to name “genocide”.

The heartbreaking documentary of the Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi about killed Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, which was killed in an Israeli air raid on her house in Gaza last month, left his audience in a stunned silence when he became primeval on May 15th.

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, went through the red carpet with a T-shirt with the names killed Gaza Strip when he applied for a documentary about his life this week.

In the middle of the champagne and air kisses, US President Donald Trump also concentrated on the heads, especially on the Cannes film market, where business is reduced for new projects.

Trump's promise to implement 100 percent tariffs for films that were produced “produced in foreign countries” provoked a mixture of horror, unbelief and ridicule from industry connoisseurs.

“I can't take it very seriously. It's just too surreal,” the American director Wes Anderson told AFP.

“Taxi driver” star Robert de Niro has spoken “America's philistic president” in his opening ceremony.

Tom Cruise swept in Cannes in Cannes in Cannes with a hype hype around “Mission: Impossible – The End Reckoning”, which led to mixed reviews in the first week.

Director Christopher Mcquarrie revealed that Cruise, who does his own stunts, went a little far while filming in South Africa.

“He was on the wing of the aircraft. His arms hung over the front of the wing. We couldn't say whether he was or not with consciousness,” said the US filmmaker.

The reaction of the French emergency services this year was one of the biggest discussion points among the participants after a man was put down by a falling palm in a freaky accident on the Sea front Cannes Boulevard.

He was led to the hospital with injuries to be released a few days later to return home.

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