The Cannes Film Festival offers a global visibility to the city. Other major events have punctuated the Cannes events calendar for decades. Pivot of the animation, the Cannes Palais des Festivals et des Congrès shares with the historic district of the Suquet the destination flagship events both for "general and professional public".
Festival de Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival offers a global visibility to the city. Other major events have punctuated the Cannes events calendar for decades. Pivot of the animation, the Cannes Palais des Festivals et des Congrès shares with the historic district of the Suquet the destination flagship events both for "general and professional public".
Each second half of May, the planet vibrates to the rhythm of Cannes. Frenetic, crazy, inordinate, overpopulated, wacky, magical, legendary, everything has been said about the most important Film Festival in the world. Some 30,000 professionals, nearly 5,000 journalists, dozens of stars and future revelations, and a whole city dedicated to the 7th Art. The Cannes Festival is a spotlight on works and filmmakers who would have remained unknown to the general public. Its role in the evolution of the world cinema is determinant.
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International Games Festival
The International Games Festival, a must-attend event for all board game enthusiasts, will be held from 23 to 25 February 2010 in the heart of the famous Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes. The event will be attended by enthusiasts and competitors, whether alone, with friends, as a couple or with the family. More than 45,000 m² of exhibition space will be occupied by the big names in the sector and by emerging publishers and authors who will be presenting must-have titles, new releases and prototypes!
This event, where each festival-goer becomes an actor for a game, a day or a weekend, is an opportunity to experience unforgettable moments of sharing and to discover the new products of 2024.
Games come in all shapes and sizes: thousands of board games, toys and creative workshops, simulation games, construction games, video games... around animations and demonstrations, tournaments, conferences and round tables, exhibitions, dedications and meetings...
The board game is a jewel, the International Games Festival is its showcase. Join the adventure!
www.festivaldesjeux-cannes.com
Pyrotechnic Fireworks Festival
Since 1967, the Fireworks Festival is without context the most spectacular event in Cannes. During several dates between July and August, the bay of Cannes is embraced under the sounds and colors of one of the most unique pyromusical display in the world.
It is in the fantastic setting of an open bay between the Iles de Lérins and the Pointe de l’Estérel, in a natural setting and the 400 metre wide and 200 metre high, star bedecked screen of the City of Cinema, that the best pyrotechnicians will come to compete and win before an audience of 200,000 people, their heads craned skywards. This is a meeting of the gods of the world of fireworks.
www.festival-pyrotechnique-cannes.com
International Dance Festival Cannes - Côte d'Azur France
Another festival in Cannes is biennial and inescapable. This one honors the choreographic for 20 years and reflects the historical relationship of Cannes with the dance. It takes place for 10 days in late November to discover the contemporary creations of large international companies.
Since it's creation in 1984, The Cannes Dance Festival has become one of the world's most prestigious and recognised festivals.
Its existence has built a strong relationship not only with the city of Cannes, but also with the dance world, due to the inauguration of the International Dance Academy in 1961: "Rosella Hightower".
Since 1993, this biannual Festival has built its identity around numerous creations centered around contemporary dance, presenting new talents and innnotive works of many international Dance Companies.
Choreographer and Manager of the National Ballet of Marseille, Frédéric Flamand, was promoted in 2011 as the New Artistic Director of the Cannes Dance Festival. In 2011 the theme of the Festival was based on "Modern Myths", however this year the Festival will be focused on "Tracks and Reflections". This programme incorporates a lot of detailed and sense-orientaded creation, and points at a strong stylistic and technical evolution in international contemporary choreography.
www.festivaldedanse-cannes.com
What Team Festival has to offer :
. Festival awareness building to the public (through schools, associations, CE, dance schools, etc ...)
. Master classes for those who wish to deepen their practice through workshops led by the scheduled choreographers and dancers of style festival.
. Meetings and discussions with artists and choreographers.
. A themed seminar with leading international researchers organised by the Dance Section of the Department of Arts, at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis.
. Movie sessions, workshops, conferences, etc ...