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Join ‘Vanity Fair’ on the ground at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, where we’re bringing you up-to-the-minute news, gossip, and film reviews.

Spearheaded by Wscripted’s founder and CEO Ellie Jamen, Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay List was launched in 2021 to support women and non-binary writer-directors, with a focus on film. It has championed 92 diverse projects since its inception.

Emma Watson is back at the Cannes Film Festival for the the first time in 12 years. The actress, who stepped away from the public eye in recent years, last attended the event in 2013 to promote 'The Bling Ring.

Meanwhile, Focus’ The Phoenecian Scheme, the latest work of whimsy from Wes Anderson, is dryly amusing and features his usual mindblowing production design. But it doesn’t possess the broad appeal of 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was his only narrative feature that ever registered Oscar nominations beyond the writing and crafts categories.

Special Screenings Director: Joséphine Japy Logline: In her directorial debut, from a screenplay she co-wrote with Olivier Torres, Joséphine Japy tells a story based on the true tale of her younger sister,

The growing appetite for Australia-India co-productions has spawned a financing entity designed to bridge the two markets with structured investment.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is at the Cannes Film Festival this week for the documentary "The Six Billion Dollar Man," is thinking about how to become politically active again once he has fully recovered from prison,

The Secret Agent is led by Wagner Moura and also stars Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leon, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, and Hermila Guedes. The film was produced by Emilie Lesclaux. Co-producers include Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Fionnuala Jamison, Olivier Barbier, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Fred Burke, and Sol Bondy.