Six international filmmakers join the 51st session of La Résidence of the Festival de Cannes
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Harry Lighton © Chris Harris / Emma Branderhorst © Dick-van-der-Lecq / Joecar Hanna © Francesc Planes / Saulė Bliuvaité ̇© Aris Rammos / Oliver McGoldrick © Andrey Francis / Mansi Maheshwari © DR
Harry Lighton, Emma Branderhorst, Joecar Hanna, Saulé Bliuvaité, Mansi Maheshwari and Oliver McGoldrick are the six new directors welcomed to the 51st session of La Résidence du Festival de Cannes.
From March 16 to July 31, 2026, they will reside in Paris where they will benefit from a personalized screenwriting residency program and a collective program of meetings with film professionals.
"Being part of La Residence doesn’t feel like joining just any program. You feel Cannes' unique aura all over it: from the care for filmmakers and the attention to detail, to the respect for authorship and bold voices that have made it the leading reference in auteur cinema."
Joecar Hanna resident at the Festival de Cannes in 2026.
The Residence of the Festival de Cannes welcomes each year, in the heart of Paris, twelve young filmmakers selected to take part in two sessions lasting four and a half months, with the aim of helping them develop and write the screenplay for their first or second feature film.
Since its creation, the Residence has supported more than 250 filmmakers from around sixty countries. It has helped reveal many artists who are now regularly present at major international film festivals. Among them are Lucrecia Martel (Argentina), Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania), Amat Escalante and Michel Franco (Mexico), László Nemes (Hungary), Lukas Dhont (Belgium), Nadine Labaki (Lebanon), Nadav Lapid (Israel), Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Croatia), Carla Simón (Spain), Karim Aïnouz (Brazil), Rungano Nyoni (Zambia), Payal Kapadia (India), and Chiang Wei (Singapore).
For its 51st session, the Residence of the Festival de Cannes is pleased to welcome three women and three men directors.
The Residence is supported by the Foundation "Les Amis du Festival".
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