Flóra Anna Buda, Andrea Gatopoulos, Xiwen Cong, Simon Maria Kubiena, Constance Tsang and Rodrigo Ribeyro are the six new directors welcomed to the 49th session of La Résidence du Festival de Cannes.
From March 15 to July 31, 2025, they will reside in Paris where they will benefit from a personalised screenwriting residency program and a collective program of meetings with film professionals.
Every year, La Résidence du Festival de Cannes welcomes twelve young filmmakers to the heart of Paris for two four-and-a-half-month sessions, to support them in writing the screenplay for their first or second feature film.
La Résidence du Festival de Cannes has welcomed over 250 filmmakers from some sixty countries, spotlighting many of the artists who have gone on to be selected at international festivals. Among them: Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel, Romania’s Corneliu Porumboiu, Mexico’s Amat Escalante and Michel Franco, Hungary’s László Nemes, Belgium’s Lukas Dhont, Lebanon’s Nadine Labaki, Israel’s Nadav Lapid, Croatia’s Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Spain’s Carla Simón, Brazil’s Karim Aïnouz, Zambia’s Rungano Nyoni, India’s Payal Kapadia and Singapore’s Chiang Wei.
La Résidence du Festival de Cannes is delighted to welcome these three women and three men to its 49th session.
