Thierry Frémaux

Credits his father, an electric engineer, for introducing him to cinema.

To be selected at Cannes is a privilege and it must remain so. But the world is changing and Cannes must ask all the questions that will be asked at the biggest festival in the world. The great museums show the great painters. Cannes shows the great filmmakers. Today, everything is more difficult, less relaxed, with more limited financial and economic issues. Gone is the time when Fellini and Mastroianni were walking freely on the Croisette. [2014]