Harry Lighton, Emma Branderhorst, Joecar Hanna, Saulé Bliuvaité, Mansi Maheshwari and Oliver McGoldrick are the six new directors welcomed to the 51th session of La Résidence du Festival de Cannes.
From March 16 to July 31, 2026, they will reside in Paris where they will benefit from a personalized screenwriting residency program and a collective program of meetings with film professionals.
The Residence of the Festival de Cannes welcomes each year, in the heart of Paris, twelve young filmmakers selected to take part in two sessions lasting four and a half months, with the aim of helping them develop and write the screenplay for their first or second feature film.
Since its creation, the Residence has supported more than 250 filmmakers from around sixty countries. It has helped reveal many artists who are now regularly present at major international film festivals. Among them are Lucrecia Martel (Argentina), Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania), Amat Escalante and Michel Franco (Mexico), László Nemes (Hungary), Lukas Dhont (Belgium), Nadine Labaki (Lebanon), Nadav Lapid (Israel), Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Croatia), Carla Simón (Spain), Karim Aïnouz (Brazil), Rungano Nyoni (Zambia), Payal Kapadia (India), and Chiang Wei (Singapore).
For its 51st session, the Residence of the Festival de Cannes is pleased to welcome three women and three men directors.
