Five female directors out of twenty-one films in official competition.
Even if the ratio is higher than last year (4 out of 24 in 2021), it made people cough during the Cannes Film Festival press conference on April 14.
Asked by the magazine “Variety”, the general delegate, Thierry Frémaux, repeated the arguments he has been hammering out for years: “There are no quotas in Cannes.
Here, we select films exclusively on their artistic merits”.
Only five women, therefore, will compete this year for the Palme d'Or against a jury chaired by Vincent Lindon, who succeeds Spike Lee.
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