On today's episode, we look back at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival: both its many institutional failings when it comes to encouraging and promoting diversity and bunch of great films by women that we watched from the programme.

This episode of the podcast features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith

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On this episode:

• Intro (0:00)
• How Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up fared at Cannes 2022 (2:40)
• The Cannes Film Festival's backwards approach to diversity (11:10)
• The award winners (18:17)
• What we thought of Cannes films we saw (27:12)
• Closing thoughts (1:00:25)

Show notes

• View the history of women directors at Cannes
• Read Alex's review of Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)
• Read Alex's review of Under the Fig Trees (Erige Sehiri)
• Read Alex's review of Everybody Loves Jeanne (Céline Devaux)
• Read Alex's review of Plan 75 (Chie Hayakawa)
• Read Alex's review of Falcon Lake (Charlotte Lebon)
• Read Orla's review of Aloners (Hong Seong-eun) from TIFF 2021

Related episodes

• Women at Cannes Ep. 1: A podcast on the history of women directors at Cannes
• Women at Cannes Ep. 2: Kelly Reichardt at Cannes 2022
• Women at Cannes Ep. 3: Céline Sciamma at Cannes
• Women at Cannes Ep. 4: Naomi Kawase at Cannes
• Ep. 126: Run Woman Run: An Indigenous coming of age after 30 film
• Ep. 122: Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World
• Ep. 121: Ninjababy & Obvious Child: Unwanted pregnancies in romantic comedies
• Ep. 119: Mike Leigh's Naked
• Ep. 118: The Souvenir Part I and II
• Ep. 43: Normal People and On Chesil Beach (Members Only)
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