55th Directors’ Fortnight

Cinema

The 55th edition of the Directors' Fortnight poster pays tribute to Manoel de Oliveira's magnificent Abraham’s Valley

The 55th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight reveals itself, luminous and adventurous. Serene, with no frills, Leonor Silveira questions our gaze.

The 2023 poster pays tribute to Manoel de Oliveira‘s magnificent Abraham’s Valley (inspired by Gustave Flaubert‘s Madame Bovary) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its selection (1993 Directors’ Fortnight).

As censorship was jeopardizing the publication of his novel, Flaubert declared :

“There is immorality in good writing”.

From May 17 to 26, we invite you to a journey through singular, free-spirited and subversive films.

PRIMETIME

PRIMETIME

Sep 21, 2026 | ,

Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime returns to the early 2000s, when reality television was reshaping our relationship with truth, spectacle and journalism. With Robert Pattinson at its centre, the film revisits the rise of To Catch a Predator and asks what happens when exposing reality becomes inseparable from making compelling television.

Bucking Fastard – Werner Herzog

Bucking Fastard – Werner Herzog

Sep 18, 2026 | ,

In Bucking Fastard, Werner Herzog transforms the true story of two inseparable sisters into a strange and poetic meditation on love, obsession and our idea of normality. Played in staggering symbiosis by Kate and Rooney Mara, Jean and Joan Holbrooke inhabit reality according to their own logic, and when the world fails them, they begin tunnelling through a mountain.

Ink – director Danny Boyle

Ink – director Danny Boyle

Sep 16, 2026 | ,

Danny Boyle’s Ink returns to 1969 and the rebirth of a newspaper that would transform British journalism. Through halftone grain, audacious typography and the restless energy of Fleet Street, the film captures the exhilaration of a rebellion against the establishment, while quietly asking when the desire to inform became the instinct to provoke.