In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks a new generation of filmmakers the same question: is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?
30 prominent directors who attended the Cannes Festival in 2022 are left alone in a hotel room and express their views on the current situation of the art of cinema and filmmaking, as it is being theatened by new means of expression and consumption. The result is a captivating, smart, contradictory, fun, and thought-provoking conversation about the recent technological and sociological changes impacting cinema today.
With Wim Wenders, Audrey Diwan, Joachim Trier, David Cronenberg, Shannon Murphy, James Gray, Arnaud Desplechin, Lynne Ramsay, Asghar Farhadi, Nadav Lapid, Claire Denis, Davy Chou, Baz Luhrmann, Alice Winocour, Ayo Akingbade, Olivier Assayas, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Jaoui, Kirill Serebrennikov, Cristian Mungiu, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Albert Serra, Monia Chokri, Ninja Thyberg, Pietro Marcello, Rebecca Zlotowski, Ali Cherri, Ruben Östlund, Clément Cogitore et Alice Rohrwacher
Crédits
Image
Marine Atlan
Editing
Nicolàs Longinotti
Sound
César Mamoudy
Music
Pierre Rousseau
Followed by a round table with directors Corneliu Porumboiu, Ayo Akingbade, Chandler Levack and Lubna Playoust, moderated by Lili Hinstin
Lubna Playoust
Lubna Playoust is a director and an actress. Her first feature Room 999 was presented in the Cannes Classics section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. She stars in Monia Chokri’s The Nature of Love presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. She is the founder and program director of the mk2 Curiosity platform.
Séances
Cinéma Le Royal Salle n°2
Special session