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Every year in May, the small city of Cannes transforms into the capital of world cinema. Streets along the Mediterranean fill with people from all corners of the world: filmmakers, critics, journalists, producers, and dreamers who still believe cinema can change the world. The red carpet is rolled out, camera flashes blink endlessly, and the Festival Palace stands like a modern temple drawing thousands toward itself.
Yet this year, at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, a question kept returning to my mind more than ever: is Cannes still the most important showcase of art cinema in the world, or has it become a grand, established institution that reproduces its own past rather than discovering the future? (…)