The Festival’s program includes 20 filmsfrom among the official selections at this year’s Festival in Cannes. In addition, the entire program from the short-film competition Quinzaine des Réalisateurs from this year’s Festival in Cannes will also be shown, including the Polish film Fragmenty (Fragments), by Agnieszka Woszczyńska.

Created by the French Directors Guild in the wake of the events of May ’68, the Directors’ Fortnight seeks to aid filmmakers and contribute to their discovery by the critics and audiences alike. From its initial program in 1969, it cast its lot with the avant-garde (the glorious seventies), even as it created a breeding ground where the Cannes Festival would regularly find its prestigious auteurs.