Nineteen films are competing for the world’s most prestigious film award, the Golden Palm, including a German movie and indie films from the US.Impressive film posters and huge billboards usually draw attention to the latest Hollywood blockbusters at the Cannes Film Festival. Major US film studios that tend to use Cannes as an advertising platform for their massively expensive productions are hard to find. Cannes celebrates 70th anniversaryThe Cannes Film Festival took place for the first time in 1946. In the post-war era back then, one of the objectives was to create a counterbalance to the Venice Film Festival, which had been discredited due to its alleged ties to Italian fascism. It took until the 1950s for Cannes to establish itself as the world’s most important film festival.

Source: Daily News Egypt May 17, 2017 07:30 UTC