Cannes: Percentage Of Female Filmmakers In Competition Decreases But Wider Official Selection Shows Gender Balance Improvement

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Cannes Film Festival has again tied its personal best number of four female filmmakers in its Competition program, matching 2019 and 2011.

However, the percentage of women represented is smaller as the overall number of titles in the section is larger this year.As unveiled today, four of the 24 movies in the 2021 Competition are helmed by women: Julia Ducournau’s Titane; Catherine Corsini’s La Fracture; Mia Hansen-Love’s Bergman Island; and Ildiko Enyedi’s The Story Of My Wife.

That’s a little under 17% in total.Comparing with 2019’s selection (2020 didn’t have a full Official Selection due to the physical fest being cancelled), the number of female directors was the same at four, but that was out of a total of 21 titles picked, which is