Home > Creative Content > Movies

16 of Cannes’ Hottest Directors, From Pedro Almodóvar to Céline Sciamma (Exclusive Photos)

TheWrap Cannes magazine: Our biggest portfolio ever tracked down festival-bound directors from Madrid to Montreal, Paris to Taipei, Moscow to Darjeeling

cannes directors gallery Xavier Dolan, Dexter Fletcher, Danielle Lessovitz, Pippa Bianco, Abel Ferrera
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Pedro Almodovar (“Pain and Glory”) photographed by Nico Bustos in Madrid
Abel Ferrara (“Tommaso”) photographed by Paolo Santambrogio in Rome
Jeremy Clapin (“I Lost My Body”) photographed by Helene Cica in Paris
Danielle Lessovitz (“Port Authority”) photographed by Helene Zund in Brooklyn
Xavier Dolan (“Matthias & Maxime”) photographed by Shayne Laverdiere in Montreal
Pippa Bianco (“Share”) photographed by Jai Lennard in New York City
Celine Sciamma (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) photographed by Thomas Laisne in Paris
Ira Sachs (“Frankie”) photographed by Rick Wenner in New York City
Asif Kapadia (“Diego Maradona”) self-portrait in Darjeeling, India
Werner Herzog (“Family Romance, LLC”) photographed by Lena Herzog on a train in Japan
Justine Triet (“Sibyl”) photographed by Kris Dewitte in Paris
Bas Devos (“Ghost Tropic”) photographed by Kris Dewitte in Paris
Corneliu Porumboiu (“The Whistlers”) photographed by Cornel Brad in Budapest
Kantemir Balagov (“Beanpole”) photographed by Anna Temerina in Moscow
Midi Z (“Nina Wu”) with actress/screenwriter Wu Ke-Xi photographed by Kris Dewitte in Taipei
Dexter Fletcher (“Rocketman) photographed by Gavin Bond in London
Agnes Varda, 1928-2018, photographed by Shayan Asgharnia in Los Angeles in 2017

Read more from our Cannes issue of TheWrap magazine.