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This May, we are celebrating women directors who have been feted by the Cannes Film Festival, and on the podcast, we’ll be talking about Women Directors in the Cannes Competition.

Cannes 2022 kicks off on May 17, so let’s celebrate the wonderful work by women who have been at Cannes this year and in the past.

Join us for a podcast season starting May 11 on women directors in the Cannes Competition, and get the Box Set of books on women directors at Cannes.

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Get the box set of books about women directors — Kelly Reichardt, Céline Sciamma, and Lynne Ramsay — who have screened films in the Cannes Competition.

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Women in the Cannes Competition

Four-episode podcast season starting May 11

We’ll introduce you to some of the best contemporary women directors who have screened in competition (or are screening this year), as well as the festival’s problematic (if very slowly improving) history of being a boys’ club.

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Women at Cannes Ep1 - a history

Ep. 1: Why are we celebrating women at Cannes this year?

Women at Cannes Ep2 Kelly Reichardt

Ep. 2: Kelly Reichardt and the 2022 Cannes Competition

Women at Cannes Ep 3 Céline Sciamma

Ep. 3: Céline Sciamma at Cannes

Ep. 4: Naomi Kawase: The under-appreciated darling of Cannes

Films discussed on this episode include Manuela Martelli's 1976, Under The Fig Trees, Naomi Kawase's Side A, Charlotte Lebon's Falcon Lake, and more.

Ep. 5: Cannes 2022 in review

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Explore the entire history of women directors at Cannes

We’ve compiled a complete list of every single feature film directed by a woman to ever screen at Cannes since its inception (including in the sidebars). We go deep on it in episode 1, but we’ve also made it available online to view!

View the list of every film by a woman at Cannes

Discover great films by women at Cannes in past years

The sidebars always program great films by women, and the Competition sometimes programs them, too. Check out some of our favourites from recent years.

Still from the film The Souvenir Part II, which precedes The Eternal Daughter which we review.

Ep. 118: The Souvenir Part I and II

Joanna Hogg calls The Souvenir Part II “a film about the making of Part I.” Back in 2019, we wrote an ebook about the making of Part I. On this episode, find out how Part II changes how we see Part I.
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Ep. 114: Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come and Bergman Island

We discuss French director Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film Bergman Island and her 2016 film, Things to Come.
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Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl) finds a new angle on life under fascism

Sandrine Kiberlain’s feature debut, Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl), is the story of an aspiring Parisian actress living under the Nazi occupation.
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Disorder, Alice Winocour, Maryland

Disorder is a smart, heartpounding thriller

Although Alice Winocour’s “Maryland” works as a heartpounding home invasion thriller, it’s also a meditation on trauma, paranoia, class, and unfulfilled desire.
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Charlène Favier on Slalom, her sensitive sexual abuse drama

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Ali & Ava review: Clio Barnard crafts a lovely Bradford-set romance

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Celebrate the year of Kelly Reichardt

Everything is coming up Kelly Reichardt this year! Be ahead of the crowd by showing your Reichardt fandom and be ready for her new film Showing Up.

You can show your support by purchasing one of our mugs and our book on Kelly, Roads to Nowhere.

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