Cannes International Film Festival, the four major film festivals in the world.

Cannes International Film Festival (English: Cannes International Film Festival, French: Festival De Cannes), also translated as Cannes International Film Festival, was founded in 1939. It is the most influential and top international film festival in the world today. Together with Venice International Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival, it is called the three major international film festivals in Europe, and the highest award is the "Palme d 'Or Award". Cannes Film Festival in France is called 3S Film Festival because its venue has three characteristics: ocean, beautiful scenery and sunshine. At present, Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held in mid-May every year, with a duration of about 12 days. It usually opens on Wednesdays and ends every other Sunday. Meanwhile, in addition to film competitions, market exhibitions are also held at the same time. The film festival is divided into six units: official competition, biweekly director, a kind of gaze, film review week, new faces of French films, and border market exhibition.

"The Cannes Film Festival is a vacuum zone that doesn't care about politics. It is a microcosm, condensed as if people can have direct contact and speak the same language. "

Jean Cocteau

1939, Jean Zay, French Minister of Education and Arts, proposed to establish an international film festival in France. Cannes was chosen as the venue because of its "sunny and beautiful scenery".

The 1st Cannes International Film Festival

The first Cannes International Film Festival was hosted by Louis Lumière, but it was postponed due to World War II. 1945, AFAA was once again asked to hold a film festival with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education. Starting from 1946, the newly created French National Film Center also supported it jointly.

1946 On September 20th, Cannes International Film Festival, as the first important international cultural event after the war, was held in the old casino in Cannes. At that time, Cannes International Film Festival was a non-profit organization with a board of directors. And became a charity in 1972. Except 1948 and1950-Cannes Film Festival is cancelled due to lack of funds-Cannes Film Festival is held for two weeks every year; 195 1 years ago was held in September, and later it became May. 1968, Cannes Film Festival was interrupted due to political turmoil.

At first, Cannes Film Festival was mainly a tourism and social activity, more like a film forum than an activity. Almost all the participating films can win prizes. Years later, with the rapid increase of participants and new economic backing, Cannes Film Festival has changed its initial positioning and gradually evolved into the most popular annual event in the film industry. Today, more than 4,000 journalists from about 1600 media attend the Cannes Film Festival every year. 1959 The establishment of "Film Market" has increased the influence of Cannes International Film Festival. It not only provides a commercial platform, but also facilitates the meeting and discussion between buyers and sellers in the film industry. In the 45 years of continuous development, Cannes Film Studio has become the main market of the global film industry. Similarly, Village International, which was established around the Film Palace in 2000, has enabled more and more countries to promote their own culture and films and provide support for their own filmmakers and film industry.

Parallel to the formal nomination, the International Film Criticism Week was founded in 1962, and the Biweekly Directors Week was founded in 1969. Both events have their own competition units. 1978, gilles jacob, then the general representative of the film festival, founded the "Caméra d'or" to reward the best films in the three competition units.

In the early days of Cannes International Film Festival, all countries chose their own films to participate. 1972, Maurice Bessy, the general representative, Favre le Bret, the chairman of the film festival, and the board of directors made a decisive decision that Cannes Film Festival would be the only decision-maker to nominate participating films on a global scale. This decision marked a turning point and was soon followed by other film festivals. From 65438 to 0998, gilles jacob founded CINéfoundation to nominate short films and Chinese films for global film academies, aiming at discovering and promoting new film talents. Since then, more than 2,000 films from various countries and regions have been sent to film festivals for nomination.

Following the concept of film cornerstone, the official residence of Cannes Film Festival, which opened in Paris in autumn of 2000, also provided opportunities for young filmmakers to develop their own shooting plans abroad and encouraged them to promote them internationally.

In 2000, gilles jacob, the general representative of Cannes Film Festival since 1978, was elected as the chairman after Pierre Viot by the board of directors. Pierre Viot served as the chairman from 1985 to 2000, and became the president of film cornerstone in 2000. Since 200 1, gilles jacob has been assisted by Veronique Keira, general manager of Cannes Film Festival, and Thierry Frémaux, artistic director.

They strengthened the position of Cannes Film Festival as an annual international film forum. All kinds of film styles, genres and types are in their places. Whether through film screening or through enriching many cultural and artistic activities of the film festival: seminars, commendation meetings, ambassador lecture halls, concerts, exhibitions, etc. Its eternal goal is to serve the growth of film art. Cannes Film Festival is not only an ideal place for film industry practitioners to get together, but also attaches great importance to the talents of artists who promote film development. A few years later, Cannes Film Festival was famous for its balance between artistic level and commercial influence. It not only ensures a unique international platform for the films displayed, but also reveals and reflects the development and trend of world films while maintaining the concept of "providing film products for the broad audience".