5. Women at Cannes 2022 - a podcast by Seventh Row

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On today's episode, we look back at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival: both its many institutional failings when it comes to encouraging and promoting diversity and bunch of great films by women that we watched from the programme.

This episode of the podcast features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith

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

On this episode:

Intro (0:00)
How Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up fared at Cannes 2022 (2:40)
The Cannes Film Festival’s backwards approach to diversity (11:10)
The award winners (18:17)
What we thought of Cannes films we saw (27:12)
Closing thoughts (1:00:25)

Show notes

View the history of women directors at Cannes
Read Alex's review of Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)
Read Alex's review of Under the Fig Trees (Erige Sehiri)
Read Alex's review of Everybody Loves Jeanne (Céline Devaux)
Read Alex's review of Plan 75 (Chie Hayakawa)
Read Alex's review of Falcon Lake (Charlotte Lebon)
Read Orla's review of Aloners (Hong Seong-eun) from TIFF 2021

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